Abhijit Sarmah is a poet and researcher specializing in Indigenous literatures and creative writing. He holds a Master of Philosophy (MPhil.) degree from Dibrugarh University, India and is currently pursuing a PhD at the University of Georgia in Athens GA, USA. He is also a UGA Arts Lab Graduate Fellow (2022-25) and has received such honors as the Ruth Pack Scholarship from the Institute of Native American Studies and Michael G. Moran Graduate Student Award from the Department of English at UGA. His work has been published in a range of print and online journals, including Poetry, The Margins, Lunch Ticket, Glassworks Magazine, Porter House Review, and The Lincoln Review. Sarmah was a finalist for the prestigious Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowships for two consecutive years (2023 and 2024) and has received nominations for the Best of the Net and The Pushcart Prize.
Education
- M.Phil. in English Literature, 2022
Title of the dissertation: Memory, Postmemory and the Memoir: A Study of Select Texts by Native American Women Writers.
Dibrugarh University, Assam, India
- M.A. in English Literature, 2018
Specialization: American Literature.
Dibrugarh University, Assam, India
- B.A. in English Literature and Language, 2016
Jagannath Barooah College, Jorhat, Assam, India
Research
- Indigenous literatures
- Postcolonial studies
- Creative writing
- African American literature
Selected Publications
CREATIVE WORK
- “অপেক্ষা/Waiting.” The Emerson Review (Issue 52 2023).
- “On Asking My Mother about Winter 1990.” Poetry magazine. January issue (2023).
- “In Memoriam Sam Stafford.” Lunch Ticket. Winter/Spring issue (2022).
- “Because She Remembers Thangjam Manorama.” Chapter House Journal. Winter 2022.
- “Abecedarian for My Father’s Childhood Memories.” The Lincoln Review (Issue 3 2022). Nominated for Best of the Net.
- “Never Heard Back.” The Margins. August 2022.
- “Detangling/Weaving.” The Roadrunner Review. Winter 2021.
- “Daughters” & “For You Left Like Bordoisila.” Rigorous Magazine. Vol. 4, No. 4 (2020)
- “Ghazal for Stateless Bodies.” The Albion Review. Fall 2021.
- “Duplex (Floating Bodies on the Ganges).” GASHER Journal. Summer 2021.
Awards, Honors and Recognitions
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Abhijit Sarmah is a UGA Arts Lab Graduate Fellow.
https://willson.uga.edu/research/uga-arts-lab-cluster/arts-lab-graduate-fellows/
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Finalist for Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowships (two years in a row: 2023 & 2024)
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2024 Ruth Pack Scholar, Institute of Native American Studies (INAS) at UGA
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2024 Michael G. Moran Graduate Student Award from the Department of English at UGA
