Sugar Sea: On Artist Andrea Chung (essay)

Shuchi Saraswat is senior editor of AGNI and has been part of the editorial team since 2019. Her essays have appeared in Ploughshares, Orion, Michigan Quarterly Review, AGNI, Ecotone, and elsewhere, and have received special mentions in The Best American Essays and The Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses. Her novel-in-progress has received support from the St. Botolph Club Foundation, the Barbara Deming Memorial Foundation, and was shortlisted for the Granum Foundation Prize. Founder of the Transnational Literature Series at Brookline Booksmith, a reading series focused on themes of migration, the intersection of politics & literature, and works in translation, she’s served as a judge for several prizes and awards, including the 2019 National Book Award in Translated Literature. She lives in Boston. (updated 10/2026)

With Jennifer Kwon Dobbs, she coedited Futures: An AGNI Portfolio of Work in Translation.

With Ru Freeman and Preti Taneja, she coedited Proximity: An AGNI Portfolio of Writing and Art by Women of Color.