Susmita Bhattacharya

Susmita Bhattacharya is an Indian-born writer living in the UK.  Her debut novel, The Normal State of Mind (Parthian, 2015), was long listed at the 2018 Mumbai Film Festival. Her short story collection, Table Manners (Dahlia Publishing, 2018), won the 2019 Saboteur Award for Best Short Story Collection and was featured on BBC Radio 4. She won the Memoir Writing Prize at the Winchester Writers’ Festival in 2016 and has been commissioned to write creative nonfiction for various platforms including radio. She teaches creative writing in universities and in the community and is a mentor for underrepresented writers.