Lopamudra Banerjee is an Indian-Bengali poet and author living in Texas, USA. She is the author of the Journey Awards 2015 winning memoir ‘Thwarted Escape’, and the critically acclaimed poetry collection ‘Woman And Her Muse’. She has translated Nobel laureate Tagore’s selected works of fiction as ‘The Broken Home And Other Stories’ and two dramas of Tagore, ‘Tales of Transformation’ (English translation of Tagore’s Chitrangada and Chandalika). Among her latest works are a poetry film in collaboration with two other poets (under production) and an anthology on gender violence titled ‘Muffled Moans Unleashed’ (as co-editor). Lopa has jointly edited the Blue Pencil publication Darkness There But Something More with Dr Santosh Bakaya, Muffled Moans Unleashed, the anthology on abuse and gender violence and also Cloudburst: The Womanly Deluge. Among several single author works, she has edited Sarmita Dey’s debut fiction work A New Lease of Life, The Lively Library by Niranjan Navalgund, Rhiti Bose’s upcoming novel A Wish for the Past and is currently editing debut author Trishna Saha’s novel The Abandoned Fighter which will be the first part of a book series.
A recipient of the Woman Achiever Award 2018 instituted by International Women’s Short Film Festival, The Reuel International Prize for poetry (2017) and for translation (2016), she wears many hats. She is also a featured poet performing poetry/spoken words in Texas (at Dark Moon Poetry, Houston PoetryFest, In The Words of a Sistah: Becoming which is the longest running all-female poetry show in USA, among others). She is an adjunct faculty of Creative Writing at Dallas College, Texas, and a visiting faculty of memoir and nonfiction writing at Texas Christian University.
