Shome Dasgupta

Series editor for The Wigleaf Top 50 (2019-2025). Award winning author published by HarperCollins India, Malarkey Books, Thirty West, and Belle Point Press.

shome dasgupta is the author of The Seagull And The Urn (HarperCollins India), and most recently, the novels The Muu-Antiques (Malarkey Books) and Tentacles Numbing (Thirty West), a prose collection Histories Of Memories (Belle Point Press), a short story collection Atchafalaya Darling (Belle Point Press), and the poetry collections Cajun South Brown Folk (Belle Point Press) and Iron Oxide (Assure Press). His writing has appeared in McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, New Orleans Review, The Emerson Review, Jabberwock Review, American Book Review, Arkansas Review, Magma Poetry, and elsewhere. His fiction and poetry have been anthologized in Best Small Fictions, The &Now Awards 2: The Best Innovative Writing, and Poetic Voices Without Borders 2. His work has been featured as a storySouth Million Writers Award Notable Story, and his stories and poems have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, Best Small Fictions, Best Microfiction, Best Of The Net, and the Orison Anthology. He took part in the Innovative Fiction panel, as a featured author, at the Louisiana Book Festival, and he served as the series editor for The Wigleaf Top 50 from 2019-2025. He lives in Lafayette, LA and can be found at www.shomedome.com.