Anuradha Bhowmik is a Bangladeshi American poet and writer. She is a 2022 Kundiman fellow and a 2018 AWP Intro Journals Project winner in poetry. Her poetry and prose have appeared in Poetry, the Sun, Copper Nickel, Pleiades, Indiana Review, and elsewhere. Life as a Bangladeshi-born American girl growing up as a first-generation immigrant in the United States shapes her debut collection. Brown Girl Chromatography (University of Pittsburgh Press) explores issues of race, class, gender, and sexuality in post-9/11 America while navigating the poet’s millennial childhood, adolescence, and adulthood. She faces cruelties in the American and Bangladeshi worlds without any guidance or instruction on how to survive. Any visible traces of her Bangladeshi life result in racial ridicule from her peers, while participating and assimilating into American culture is met with violence and abuse at home. As language and memory intersect, Bhowmik draws on pop culture and free association to examine her displacement from many angles and make meaning out of hurt.