Instructor of Record, Program Assistant for UGA@Oxford and Ruth Pack Scholar 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. Sarmah is currently an Instructor of Record and a Program Assistant for the UGA at Oxford program. At UGA, he has received such honors as UGA Arts Lab Graduate Fellowship from the UGA Graduate School, Ruth Pack Scholarship from the Institute of Native American Studies, Michael G. Moran Graduate Student Award and Appleby Fellowship Summer Award from the Department of English and a Franklin College Research Assistantship from the UGA Franklin College of Arts and Sciences. His work has been published in a range of print and online journals, including Poetry, Callaloo, The Margins, Lunch Ticket, Glassworks Magazine, Porter House Review, and The Lincoln Review. Sarmah was a finalist for Poetry Foundation's Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowships for two consecutive years (2023 and 2024) and has received numerous nominations for the Best of the Net and The Pushcart Prize. He recently served as the Guest Editor of poetry for The Headlights Review, a publication of Kennesaw State University. Education 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 Research Interests: Indigenous literatures Postcolonial studies Creative writing African American literature Grants: 2025: • Graduate School Conference Travel Grant, University of Georgia • Creative Writing Program Spring Travel Grant, University of Georgia Selected Publications Selected Publications: CREATIVE WORK • “Perennial.” Many Nice Donkeys. Volume 2, Issue 2 (2024). Nominated for 2025 Pushcart Prize. • “Funny That You Say If I Ever Go Missing.” Welter. Fall issue (2024). • “Love, Which Way is Home?” Meniscus. Volume 12, Issue 2 (2024). • “Leave-taking.” Callaloo. Vol 42, Issue 3 (2024). • “In Her Last Phone Call.” Poetry Magazine. May issue (2024). • “Close up.” Poetry Without Fear. Vol 3, Issue 2 (2024). • “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 issue (2022). • “Abecedarian for My Father’s Childhood Memories.” The Lincoln Review. Issue 3 (2022). Nominated for 2023 Best of the Net. • “Never Heard Back.” The Margins. August issue (2022). • “Detangling/Weaving.” The Roadrunner Review. Winter issue (2021). • “Daughters” & “For You Left Like Bordoisila.” Rigorous Magazine. Vol. 4, No. 4 (2020). • “Duplex (Floating Bodies on the Ganges).” GASHER Journal. Summer issue (2021). • “Ghazal for Stateless Bodies” (revised version). Glassworks Magazine. Fall issue (2021). • “Apologies to all the people in Detention Centers in Assam.” Plato’s Caves Online. September issue (2021). • “Carving Rocks.” The Scriblerus Arts Journal. Spring issue (2019). • “Looking at a Refugee.” South 85 Journal. Winter issue (2018). Awards, Honors and Recognitions Of note: 2026: awarded an Appleby Fellowship Summer Award, Department of English at UGA 2025: served as a Willson Center Graduate Fellow, Willson Center for Humanities and Arts at UGA (term: 2025-2026) 2024: awarded a Ruth Pack Scholar, Institute of Native American Studies (INAS) at UGA awarded a Michael G. Moran Graduate Student Award, Department of English at UGA Finalist for Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowships, Poetry Foundation, IL 2023: Finalist for Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowships, Poetry Foundation, IL 2022: Awarded a UGA Arts Lab Graduate Fellow (term: 2022-2025), Graduate School at UGA
