bio
Shome Dasgupta is the author of i am here And You Are Gone (Winner Of The 2010 OW Press Fiction Chapbook Contest). He lives in Lafayette, LA and teaches at South Louisiana Community College and University Of Phoenix Online. He received an MFA in Creative Writing from Antioch University-Los Angeles. His nonfiction, fiction, and poetry have appeared or will appear in Drunken Boat, Mad Hatters' Review, Stymie Magazine, H_NGM_N, Café Irreal, Meadow, Magma Poetry, Shelf Life Magazine, and elsewhere. His writing has been nominated for The storySouth Million Writers Award and The Best Of The Net 2009. As an undergraduate, Shome finished with a BA in History from the University Of Louisiana at Lafayette.
His influences, or 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.
