Sayantani Dasgupta, author of Women Who Misbehave, talks to Sam and Stacy about writing her first short story, working as an editor at a publishing house, moving to the U.S. to pursue an MFA, and why reading about a character smashing a mirror always makes Sayantani wonder whose job it is to clean it up. Sayantani is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington.
You can learn more about Sayantani at her website, https://www.sdasgupta.com/. She is also the author of a memoir, Firegirl, from Two Sylvias Press as well as a short story collection, Women Who Misbehave from India Viking.
Sayantani also recently published her newest essay collection, Brown Women Have Everything: Essays on Discomfort and Delight, from The University of North Carolina Press.
You can buy Brown Women Have Everything: Essays on Discomfort and Delight here, her short story collection Women Who Misbehave here, and Firegirl here.
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