Aditi Bhattacharjee
Indian writer and translator based between New York & San Francisco.
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Poems
- 2026
- “Pichuṭān” and “Bedtime Story”Collateral2026
- “Newspaper” and other poems by Shubham NegiTranslated from the HindiGulmohur Quarterly2026
- “Rain Cities”Honey Literary2026
- “Five Year Plan”Up the Staircase Quarterly2026
- 2025
- “Telling It Slant” and four poemsThe Punch2025
- “Safety Manual”The Los Angeles Review2025
- “Everything Is Subject to Change”The Prose Poem2025
- “Self-Portrait in Which I Become an Aria of Light” and “Sunday at the Park”Epiphany, in print2025
- 2024
- “What the Water Remembers”Solstice2024
- “Legacy Ghazal”Four Way Books, Holiday Party Audiobook Anthology2024
- “Homecomings with Unexpected Outcomes”Gone Lawn2024
- “i wait for a night of not wanting”Narrative Northeast2024
- “There Are Many Ways to Pray”Sky Island Journal2024
- Yearbook of Indian Poetry in English 2024Anthology, in print2024
- 2023
- “Revisionist History”The Greyhound Journal2023
- “Things the Bangladesh Liberation Has Been for My Mother”The Greyhound Journal2023
- “How Bright My Face Shines”Inquisitive Eater2023
- “Spring Miracle” and “We Exist Ungrammatically”SLAB, in print2023
- 2022
- “Merci” and other poemsThe Usawa Literary Review2022
- “My Poems Are Different in May When I Forget to Remember You”Evocations Review2022
- Yearbook of Indian Poetry in English 2022Anthology, in print2022
Prose
Interviews & Reviews
- Interviews
- “On Process, Placemaking and Writing Joyful Elegies”A conversation with Preeti Vangani on Fifty MothersNorthwest Review2026
- “On Owning One’s Experiences”A conversation with Esther Lin on Cold Thief PlaceBOMB2025
- “Gazing into the Self”A conversation with Saba Keramati on Self-MythologyPoetry Northwest2025
- “Poetry as a Tool for Discovery”A conversation with Sarah Ghazal Ali on TheophaniesPoetry Northwest2024
- “Language as a Map to a Future Destination”A conversation with Ina Cariño on FeastPoetry Northwest2023
- Book Reviews
- West: A TranslationPoetry by Paisley RekdalPublic Seminar2024
- From FromPoetry by Monica YounTupelo Quarterly2024
- WhereasPoetry by Layli Long SoldierHigh on Books
- Catalog of Unabashed GratitudePoetry by Ross GayHigh on Books
- Just Us: An American ConversationNonfiction by Claudia RankineHigh on Books
- How We Fight for Our LivesNonfiction by Saeed JonesHigh on Books
- The Crying BookNonfiction by Heather ChristleHigh on Books
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Readings
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Past
About
Aditi Bhattacharjee is an Indian writer and translator based between New York & San Francisco.
She graduated with degrees in Engineering and Marketing after which she worked in the financial markets for many years. In 2022 she pivoted into literary arts graduating with an MFA in Creative Writing from The New School. Her work has received Honorable Mention for the Paul Violi Prize at The New School, shortlisted for The Prose Poem’s Spring Short Prize and been nominated for Best New Poets (2025), Best of the Net (2025, 2027) and Pushcart Prize (2025). Her debut poetry collection Daughterling was a finalist for the 2025 Orison Prize in Poetry.
She has worked as a programs manager at A Public Space and currently co-organizes the monthly River Reading Series which focuses on community curation, opening dialogues across voices, languages and multidisciplinary artistic traditions.
Contact
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