Sayantika Mandal

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PhD student

Graduate Arts Lab Fellow

Sayantika Mandal completed her MFA in Writing from the University of San Francisco where she was awarded the Jan Zivic Fellowship. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Ecobloomspaces Anthology, Glassworks Magazine, Southern Review of Books, Indian Literature, The Citron Review, Cerebration, Feminism in India, Times of India, and others. She is currently working on her first novel Driftwood.

She is the inaugural Arts Lab Fellow from UGA's Willson Center of Humanities & Arts.

Education

Education:

MFA '19 in Writing, University of San Francisco

MA '17 English, Indira Gandhi National Open University, India

BA '09 English (Honors), Minors: History & Political Science, Presidency College, University of Calcutta, India

Research

Research Interests:

Creative Writing, Literature of Place, Postcolonial Ecocriticism & Spatial Studies, Translations

Awards, Honors and Recognitions

Of note:

Craft Literary Nonfiction Award, honorable mention, 2023
Arts Lab Graduate Fellowship at UGA in 2021
Wilson Center Graduate Student Shelter Scholarship, Fall 2020 & Fall 2021
Brooklyn Poets Fellowship, finalist, Summer 2020
Postgraduate Teaching Fellowship at USF, Spring 2020
Jan Zivic Fellowship, USF, Fall 2019

Events featuring Sayantika Mandal, Christina Wood

May 1, 5:00pm - 7:00pm

Exit Reading with Creative Writing Program Graduating PhD Students Sayantika Mandal and Christina Wood

Friday, May 1 2026, 5 - 7pm

Athentic Brewing Company | 108 Park Avenue Athens, GA

Please save the date for this year's Exit Reading!

Sayantika Mandal Sayantika Mandal is a writer, editor, and PhD candidate in English at the University of Georgia, where she serves as the inaugural Arts Lab Graduate Fellow. She holds an MFA in Writing from the University of San Francisco, where she was awarded the Jan Zivic…

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