Shebati Sengupta (she/they) is a poet, educator, and PhD student. She holds an MA in American Studies from the University of New Mexico, where she is currently working on a PhD analyzing Asian American embodiment during COVID-19. They have taught at the collegiate level for quite a few years and developed the first iteration of Intro to Asian American Studies ever taught at UNM.

Shebati is a former Roots, Wounds, Words Fellow and a VONA alum. They are the recipient of fellowships from the Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing and Brooklyn Poets. Her poem “to the moth who lived on my desk—” was published in October 2021 in Lantern Review, a journal of Asian American poetry. She also has a poem forthcoming through the Asian American Writer’s Workshop. Shebati is interested in storytelling as craft, as theory, and as methodology. They also love dogs, mermaids, croissants, and, well, garlic!