Elizabeth Chakrabarty
Elizabeth Chakrabarty is an artist and writer.
Dr Elizabeth Chakrabarty is an interdisciplinary writer using creative and critical writing as well as performance to explore themes of race, gender and sexuality. Her debut novel, Lessons in Love and Other Crimes, was inspired by the experience of race hate crime. It was published in 2021 by Indigo Press, along with her essay On Closure and Crime. In 2022 Lessons in Love and Other Crimes was longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize and shortlisted for the Polari First Book Prize. The story ‘That Last Summer’ was shortlisted for the Dinesh Allirajah Prize for Short Fiction in 2022. In 2016 she was shortlisted for the Asian Writer Short Story Prize for ‘Eurovision’, published in Dividing Lines. Other recent shorter work includes poetry published by Visual Verse. In 2022 she was chosen as one of the runners-up for the inaugural CrimeFest bursary for crime fiction authors of colour. She lives in London.
At Passa Porta, Elizabeth will work on her third literary crime novel, which is partly set in Brussels.