bio
Shome Dasgupta is the author of i am here And You Are Gone (Winner Of The 2010 Outsider Writers Press Fiction Chapbook Contest) and Tentacles, Numbing (Black Coffee Press, 2013). He lives in Lafayette, LA and teaches at South Louisiana Community College. He received an MFA in Creative Writing from Antioch University-Los Angeles. His fiction has been included in The storySouth Million Writers Award Notable Stories Of 2008 and was also nominated for The Best Of The Net 2009. As an undergraduate, Shome finished with a BA in History from the University Of Louisiana at Lafayette.
His favorite artists, writers, and musicians include Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Neutral Milk Hotel, J.D. Salinger, Aimee Bender, Mark Rothko, Margaret Atwood, Luis Jorge Borges, A.M. Homes, John Dos Pasos, Dennis McFarland, William Faulkner, Francois Sagan, Jhumpa Lahiri, Francois Truffaut, Outkast, Missy Elliott, Antony And The Johnsons, Rabindranath Tagore, Lydia Davis, and Satyajit Ray.
