Graduate Student, English 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. Research Interests: Creative Writing, Literature of Place, Postcolonial Ecocriticism & Spatial Studies, Translations
