Sumita Chakraborty is a poet and scholar. She is the author of the poetry collection Arrow (Alice James Books (U.S.)/Carcanet Press (U.K.), 2020). She is currently writing a scholarly book, Grave Dangers: Poetics and the Ethics of Death in the Anthropocene, which is under advance contract with the University of Minnesota Press, and a second collection of poetry titled The B-Sides of the Golden Record. She is an assistant professor in the Department of English and the Creative Writing Program at the University of Virginia.