Maitreyee Bhattacharjee Chowdhury

Maitreyee Bhattacharjee Chowdhury is a Bangalore-based poet and writer. She is the author of the poetry collection Benaras: Where Even the Present is Ancient and the non-fiction title Uttam Kumar and Suchitra Sen: Bengali Cinema’s First Couple, which was nominated for a Crossword Book Award in 2013. She is the poetry and fiction editor of The Bangalore Review, a literary journal. She lives in a house with a family of dogs and poetry.