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Nandini Bhattacharya

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I was born and raised in India, but I’ve called the United States my second continent for the last thirty-five years. As you see, I do not call either place “home,” because it is that question of where “home” is that my writing, dreaming, and searching are all about. Maybe it’s in books and art, though, because wherever I’ve lived, I have generally turned to them for answers to life’s big questions.

In other news, I’m a writer, Professor of English, public speaker, reviewer, and blogger. My first novel Love’s Garden (2020) garnered critical praise as “a fascinating and well-crafted journey into India's complex past” (Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni), and “a sprawling family saga set against a background of some of the most momentous events of tw
I was born and raised in India, but I’ve called the United States my second continent for the last thirty-five years. As you see, I do not call either place “home,” because it is that question of where “home” is that my writing, dreaming, and searching are all about. Maybe it’s in books and art, though, because wherever I’ve lived, I have generally turned to them for answers to life’s big questions.

In other news, I’m a writer, Professor of English, public speaker, reviewer, and blogger. My first novel Love’s Garden (2020) garnered critical praise as “a fascinating and well-crafted journey into India's complex past” (Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni), and “a sprawling family saga set against a background of some of the most momentous events of twentieth-century Indian history” (Clifford Garstang). Shorter work has appeared or is forthcoming in River Styx, Rumpus, Notre Dame Review, Oyster River Pages, Sky Island Journal, Bangalore Review, Raising Mothers Journal, the Saturday Evening Post Best Short Stories 2021, Funny Pearls, Bombay Review, PANK, and more.

Writing is hard and solitary, and writers are sometimes poor (though I categorically won’t call the writing life–as the English philosopher Thomas Hobbes called much human life–“nasty, brutish, and short”), but I’ve had the luck to enjoy literary community at the Bread Loaf Writers Workshop, the Vermont Studio Center, VONA, and the Centrum and Ragdale Artist Residencies, and most joyously at the Warren Wilson College Program for Writers, of which I am an alumna. I teach Literature and Creative Writing at Texas A&M University, and there I enjoy another community of fiercely dedicated writers and readers. With all this luck and support, I’ve completed my second novel, Something of You in Me, about love, race, and colorism in India and the US as seen through a female immigrant’s perspective, and am working on two more about the mysteriousness of family and mysterious families.

Visit me at Amazon, Author’s Guild, X, Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn; Goodreads; Substack; Medium; and my Blog.

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Sleep no more

Methought I heard a voice cry, “Sleep no more!

Macbeth does murder sleep”—the innocent sleep,

Sleep that knits up the raveled sleave of care,

The death of each day’s life, sore

labor’s bath,

Balm of hurt minds, great nature’s second course,

Chief nourisher in life’s feast.

Still it cried, “Sleep no more!” to all the house.

“Glamis hath murdered sleep, and therefore Cawdor

Shall sleep no more. Macbeth shall

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