FICTION
“All The Loving.” Northwest Review, 2021. Print.
P0ETRY
“Fee” – Glass: A Journal of Poetry, 2024.
« 3 poèmes de Vasantha Sambamurti traduits de l’anglais vers le français. » DO.KRE.I.S, Revue haïtienne des cultures créoles – #6 FRAGMENT(S) / MÒSO, 2024. Print. Translated by Estelle Coppolani.
«Printemps » & «Printan » ; translations of “வசந்தா – SPRING” by Vasantha Sambamurti– MAGMA: la revue de la recherche de l’École ESA Réunion – Ecole Supérieure d’Art de La Réunion, 2024. Print. Translated from the English to French and Reunionese Creole by Estelle Coppolani.
“Questions For My White Therapist” & “Little Critters” – The Commuter by Electric Literature, 2023.
“வசந்தா – SPRING” – Southern Humanities Review, 2022. Print
“I Inspire Song in White Women” – the minnesota review, 2021. Print
“Manifest My Throat as Tender” – Cream City Review, 2021. Print
“For the blood of me” – Portland Review, 2021
“Believe Me” & “My OCD Knows I Am No Fool” – The Hunger, 2021, Poets.org, 2022
“Nightwalk” – THE CITRON REVIEW, 2021
“Brunch Abecedarian” – Drunk Monkeys, 2021
“Dinner” & “Three days before I fly to Europe…” – Funicular Magazine, 2020. Print
“House” – No Tender Fences: An Anthology of Immigrant & First-Generation American Poetry, 2019
“Hair” & “Culmination” – Runestone Journal, 2019
“On Whiteness” – Rigorous Magazine, 2018
TRANSLATION
“The Missing Island” and “I remember a river” by Estelle Coppolani – Copihue Poetry, Fall 2022. Translated from French.
“Me” (« Moi ») from Féminin pluriel by Quraishiyah Durbarry – Waxwing, Fall 2022. Translated from French.
“Murder in a Garden” (« Meurtre dans un jardin ») by Isabelle Hoarau-Joly – Exchanges, Fall 2021. Translated from French & Réunion Kréol
“Presente! We are all Marielle Franco!” – Transition Magazine No. 129, 2020: Truth & Trope – translated & edited from Portuguese
EDITORIAL WORK
Transition No. 138, 2025: SUDAN – Senior Editor- Transition Magazine, published by Indiana University.
Transition No. 137, 2025: SOLIDARITIES – Senior Editor- Transition Magazine, published by Indiana University.
Transition No. 136, 2024: QUEER UGANDA – Senior Editor- Transition Magazine, published by Indiana University.
Transition No. 135, 2024: SPECIES – Senior Editor – Transition Magazine, published by Indiana University.
Transition No. 134, 2023: HOME SOON – Senior Editor – Transition Magazine, published by Indiana University Press
The Seagull Book of Poems, 5th Edition – Research Assistant – published by W.W. Norton
Transition No. 133, 2022: CLIMATE – Senior Editor – Transition Magazine, published by Indiana University Press
Transition No. 132, 2022: The Black in the Mediterranean Blue, Guest-Edited by Wole Soyinka & Alessandra Di Maio – Senior Editor
Transition No. 131, 2021 – Senior Editor – Transition Magazine, published by Indiana University Press
Transition No. 130, 2020: Afro Brazil – Senior Editor – Transition Magazine, published by Indiana University Press
Transition No. 129, 2020: Truth & Trope – Visual Arts Assistant – Transition Magazine, published by Indiana University Press
AWARDS
Deep Vellum Best Literary Translations Anthology – Finalist (nominated by Copihue Poetry) – 2024
Midway Journal – Finalist for the 1000 below Flash Prose & Poetry Contest – 2023
Sturgis International Fellowship – 2022 – awarded by the Univ. of Arkansas for literary research in La Réunion
Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) in Urdu – 2022 -onsite at American Institute of Indian Studies, Lucknow
CD Wright/Academy of American Poets Prize for “Believe Me” – 2022 – selected by Gary Jackson
Pushcart Prize Nomination in Poetry by Cream City Review for “Manifest My Throat as Tender” – 2022
Key West Literary Seminar Emerging Writer Award – Semi-finalist for the Scotti Merrill Award in Poetry – 2022
Pushcart Prize Nomination in Fiction by Northwest Review for “All the Loving.”
2021 Best of the Net Nomination by Funicular Magazine for “Dinner” – 2021
Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) in Hindi – 2021
Felix McKean Memorial Award for Poetry – selected by Tobias Wray – 2021
Lily Peter Fellow at Univ. of Arkansas – selected by Sy Hoahwah – 2020-21
Carolyn F. Walton Cole Fellow at Univ. of Arkansas – selected by Sarah Vap – 2020-21
J. Chester and Freda S. Johnson Fellow at Univ. of Arkansas- faculty select – 2019-20
COURSES TAUGHT
Tufts University, Pre-College Program
- Public Speaking: Speech, Rhetoric & Persuasion.
Northwestern University, Center for Talent Development
- Persuasion & Debate
- Creative Writing Workshop
South Carolina State University
- Composition and Communication I
University of Arkansas
- Composition I
- Composition II
- Creative Writing I
- Creative Writing II
- World Literature 1: Beginnings to 1650 CE
CONFERENCES
“Transnational Intimacies of Queer(ed) Confession in Summer In My Veins (1999).” Queering South Asian Literature, Modern Language Association. 9 January 2026.
“Spatial Affects of Spectral Grief in Mati Diop’s Atlantique (2019).” Subversive Sensations: Investigating Textual, Sonic, and Cinematic Atmosphere/Moods/Tones, Northeast Modern Language Association. 6 March 2025.
Renaming the Ancestral Body in Kama La Mackerel’s ZOM-FAM (2020).” Practicing the Indian Ocean: Crossings, Memories, and Bodies, Université de La Réunion, Saint-Denis. 23 November 2022.
* vasantha sambamurti * 