Visiting Writers

2024

Sabitha Satchi

Writer and art curator Sabitha Satchi was born in Kerala, India, and educated in Kerala, Delhi, and London. Satchi  is now based in New Delhi.Her poems have been published in anthologies including Writing Love: An Anthology of Love Poetry (Rupa, 2010), Poetry with Prakriti (Prakriti Foundation, 2008), Singing in the Dark (Penguin Random House, 2021), Witness (Red River, 2021, forthcoming), Extinction Violin: The Penguin Book of Modern Indian Poets (Penguin, 2021, forthcoming), and in journals including The Little Magazine, Indian Literature, The Four Quarters, Muse India, Palm Leaf (U.K.), Poetry Potion (South Africa), Scroll.in, and guftugu.in. Her poems in Slovenian translation have appeared in Poetikon.

Satchi is a member of the Afro-Asia project of South African and Indian poets and musicians, Insurrections Ensemble, with four albums and booklets published in South Africa since 2012. She has been invited to read her poetry in many festivals and venues. Her essays on literature, art, and cultural theory have appeared in several anthologies and journals. She has been the recipient of the Paul Mellon Fellowship (Yale Center for British Art, U.S.A.), Commonwealth Scholarship (U.K.), Sarai-CSDS Fellowship (Delhi, India), Charles Wallace Fellowship (British Council, India), and Vyloppilli Memorial Sreerekha Award for Poetry in Malayalam.

 
Daniel Borzutzky

Daniel Borzutzky is a poet and translator. His most recent book is Written After a Massacre in the Year 2018. His 2016 collection, The Performance of Becoming Human received the National Book Award. Lake Michigan (2018) was a finalist for the Griffin International Poetry Prize.  A forthcoming collection, The Murmuring Grief of the Americas (Coffee House Press) will be published in 2024. His most recent translation is Paula Ilabaca Nuñez’s The Loose Pearl (2022), winner of the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation. His translation of Galo Ghigliotto's Valdivia received ALTA’s 2017 National Translation Award, and he has also translated collections by Cecilia Vicuña, Raúl Zurita, and Jaime Luis Huenún. He teaches English and Latin American and Latino Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago. His work has been recognized with grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the PEN/Heim Translation Fund; and the Illinois Arts Council.