The Imaginary Jungle

Debarati Mitra is the author of Andha Skule Ghanta Baje (A Bell Rings in the School for the Blind), Amar Putul (My Doll), Jubakar Snan (The Young Man’s Bath), and Bhutera O Khuki (Ghosts and the Little Girl). Her poems have appeared in translation in International Quarterly, PN Review (U.K.), and In Their Own Voice: The Penguin Anthology of Contemporary Indian Women Poets (ed. Arlene R. K. Zide, Penguin India, Ltd), among others. (updated 1998)

Paramita Banerjee has written feature articles for the Calcutta English daily The Telegraph, and published poems in DESH. After a few years of editorial work at the publisher Orient Longman and teaching Philosophy at Muralidhar Girl’s College in South Calcutta, she translated two novels of the late Samaresh Bose from Bengali into English for Penguin India.

Carolyne Wright is a poet, translator, and essayist. She has written eight books and chapbooks of poetry and an investigative memoir about her experiences in Chile during Salvador Allende’s presidency. She received a Fulbright Senior Research grant to compile and translate an anthology of Bengali women writers. (updated 6/2010)