About

Vasantha Sambamurti is an award-winning writer, editor, translator and PhD student in English at Tufts University. Her research interests include 20th and 21st cent. Global Anglophone and Francophone literatures and cinema, translation theory, comparative ethnic literatures, contemporary poetics and creative writing craft studies. She is the Senior Editor for Transition Magazine, founded in Uganda in 1961 by Rajat Neogy, now based at Harvard University’s Hutchins Center for African & African American Research. As a recipient of 2022 Sturgis International Fellowship, she conducted literary research on Indian Ocean writers onsite in La Réunion and Mauritius. She earned her B.F.A. in Creative Writing from Emerson College and MFA from the University of Arkansas’ Program in Creative Writing and Translation. 

A Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee, her poetry, prose, and literary translations from French are featured in or forthcoming from: The Commuter by Electric Literature, Waxwing, Northwest Review, Portland Review, Exchanges: A Journal of Literary Translation, the minnesota review, Cream City Review & elsewhere. Her work has also been translated into French and Reunionese Creole.