Books, Films, and Publications

Books:

• CREDO: An Anthology of Manifestos and Sourcebook for Creative Writing.  Eds. Rita Banerjee and Diana Norma Szokolyai.  Winston-Salem, NC: C&R Press, May 2018.
• Echo in Four Beats (poetry debut).  Georgetown, KT: Finishing Line Press, March 9, 2018.
  • Selected for the Ruth Stone Foundation Podcast (2020)
  • Nominated for the 2019 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize at the Academy of American Poets
  • Finishing Line Press’s 2018 Nominee for the National Book Award in Poetry
  • Nominated for the 2018 Kate Tufts Discovery Award
  • Book Riot’s “Must-Read Poetic Voices of Split This Rock 2018
  • Finalist for the 2017 Three Mile Harbor Poetry Book Prize
  • Shortlisted for Aquarius Press 2016 Willow Books Literature Award
  • Finalist for Red Hen Press 2015 Benjamin Saltman Award
• A Night with Kali (novella).  Approaching Footsteps: Four Novellas by Women.  Ed. Patricia Flaherty Pagan.  Houston, TX: Spider Road Press, November 2016.
• Cracklers at Night (poetry chapbook).  Georgetown, KT: Finishing Line Press, 2010.
  • (First Honorable Mention for Best Poetry Book of 2011-2012 in the Los Angeles Book Festival)

Film:

• Burning Down the Louvre.  dir. Rita Banerjee and David Shields.  Documentary Film.  Forthcoming: February 2021.

Dissertation:

• The New Voyager: Theory and Practice of South Asian Literary Modernisms.  Harvard University, Dissertation. Cambridge, MA: ProQuest, 2013.

Articles & Essays:

• “The Female Gaze.”  PANK 16.  New York, NY: Spring 2021.
• “American Caste.”  Isele Magazine.  Online.  Winter 2020.
• “Of Delight.”  Iterant, Issue 2: But We Kept Fighting.  Online.  October 2020.
• “Nobody Hates Trump More Than Trump: A Conversation with David Shields & Rita Banerjee.”  The Nervous Breakdown.  Online.  July 2, 2020.
• “Birth of Cool.”  Hunger Mountain, Issue 23: Silence & Power.  Montpelier, VT: Spring 2019.
• “Credo.”  CREDO: An Anthology of Manifestos and Sourcebook for Creative Writing.  Eds. Rita Banerjee and Diana Norma Szokolyai.  Winston-Salem, NC: C&R Press, May 2018.
• “Emotion & Suspense in Theatre, Poetry, and (Non)Fiction.”  CREDO: An Anthology of Manifestos and Sourcebook for Creative Writing.  Eds. Rita Banerjee and Diana Norma Szokolyai.  Winston-Salem, NC: C&R Press, May 2018.
• “James Baldwin’s The Devil Finds Work.”  The Scofield (Issue 3.1: Kōbō Abe & Home)  Online.  Winter 2018.
• “Mano a Mano.”  Nat. Brut. (Issue 9).  Online.  November 2017.
• “Between Post-Independence and the Cold War: Agha Shahid Ali’s Publications with the Calcutta Writers Workshop.”  Mad Heart Be Brave: Essays on the Poetry of Agha Shahid Ali.  Ed. Kazim Ali.  Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, May 2017.
• “The Rumpus Interview with Erik Kennedy.”  The Rumpus.  Online.  February 2017.
• “Writing from the Fringe: Cultivating Writing Communities on Retreats and Abroad.”  WC&C Quarterly. Ed. Kenny Lakes. Online: AWP, February 2017.
• “Emotion and Suspense: The Essence of Rasa Theory.”  Poets & Writers: The Inspiration Issue.  New York, NY: January/February 2017.
• “Narrative as Provocation.”  Los Angeles Review of Books.  Los Angeles, CA: May 2016.
• “Amrita Pritam: Sexual Politics and Publishing in Mid-20^th Century India.” VIDA: Women in Literary Arts. Online. February 2016.
• “Calcutta, Marwaris, and the World of Hindi Letters.” Dissertation Reviews. Online.  January 2016.
• “War is Beautiful: An Interview with David Shields.”  Electric Literature.  Brooklyn, NY: November 2015.
• “Paging Ms. Marvel: The Perks and Perils of Creating an Islamic, Feminist Superhero.”  Jaggery: A DesiLit Arts and Literature Journal.  Chicago: Summer 2014.
• “Review of Kazim Ali’s Fasting for Ramadan.”  Jaggery: A DesiLit Arts and Literature Journal.  Chicago: Fall 2013.
• “Āj Āmār Sonār Bānglā: Giving Voice to Modern Bengali Culture Today.”  Bengali Newsletter.  Watertown, MA: Fall 2009.
• “Getting that First Book Published.”  NJ Society of Professional Journalists.  Online.  Spring 2002.

Fiction:

• A Night with Kali (novella).  Approaching Footsteps: Four Novellas by Women.  Ed. Patricia Flaherty Pagan.  Houston, TX: Spider Road Press, November 2016.
• “Darling Marie.”  Queen Mob’s Tea House.  Online.  March 2016.
• “In Perfect Focus.” Objet d’Art. New Brunswick, NJ: 2002.

Videos, Podcasts, & Performance:

• “RSF Bookclub: Rita Banerjee’s Echo in Four Beats.”  Ruth Stone Foundation Podcast.  Online.  Spring 2021.
• “VCFA’s MFA in Writing & Publishing Fall 2020 Commencement.”  Narr. Rita Banerjee.  Online.  December 16, 2020.
• “VCFA’s MFA in Writing & Publishing Fall 2020 Student Reading.”  Narr. Rita Banerjee.  Online.  December 16, 2020.
• “VCFA’s MFA in Writing & Publishing presents: Bianca Stone, Jasmin Darznik, Koon Woon, and Jennifer Wortman.” Narr. Rita Banerjee and Shin Yu Pai.  Online.  December 4, 2020.
• “VCFA’s MFA in Writing & Publishing presents: Shawn Wong, Miciah Bay Gault, and Folio Literary Management.”  Narr. Rita Banerjee and Shin Yu Pai.  Online.  November 20, 2020.
• “VCFA’s MFA in Writing & Publishing presents: Tavia Gilbert, Frances Cannon, David Heska Wanbli Weiden, and Ukamaka Olisakwe.”  Narr. Rita Banerjee and Shin Yu Pai.  Online.  October 16, 2020.
• “VCFA’s MFA in Writing & Publishing presents: Rita Banerjee, Erin Stalcup, and David Shields. Narr. Rita Banerjee and Stephanie Reich.  Online.  September 18, 2020.
• “Nobody Hates Trump More Than Trump: A Conversation with David Shields & Rita Banerjee.”  The Nervous Breakcast.  Online.  July 2, 2020.
• Benefit Reading for Black Visions Collective.  Cambridge Writers’ Workshop.  Online.  June 26, 2020.
• “Friday Fictions feat. Rita Banerjee’s ‘A Night with Kali.'”  Spider Road Press.  Online.  May 29, 2020.
• Benefit Reading for the Boston Resiliency Fund.  Cambridge Writers’ Workshop.  Online.  May 22, 2020.
• “VCFA’s MFA in Writing & Publishing Spring 2020 Commencement.”  Narr. Rita Banerjee.  Online.  May 16, 2020.
• “VCFA’s MFA in Writing & Publishing Spring 2020 Student Reading.”  Narr. Rita Banerjee.  Online.  May 14, 2020.
• “VCFA’s MFA in Writing & Publishing presents: Carvell Wallace, Yi Shun Lai, and Trinie Dalton.”  Narr. Rita Banerjee.  Online.  May 1, 2020.
• “The Figure.“ Narr. Rita Banerjee.  International Poetry Circle.  Online.  April 26, 2020.
• “VCFA’s MFA in Writing & Publishing presents: Ann Dávila Cardinal, Dr. Debotri Dhar, and Sean Prentiss.”  Narr. Rita Banerjee.  Online.  April 17, 2020
• “VCFA’s MFA in Writing & Publishing presents: Kenzie Allen, David Heska Wanbli Weiden, and Erika T. Wurth.”  Narr. Rita Banerjee.  Online.  March 27, 2020.
• “Representation & Writing: Who Gets To Tell Whose Story?” feat. Rita Banerjee and Jess Row.  Vermont Public Radio.  Narr. Jane Lindholm.  94.1 FM Montpelier / 107.9 FM Colchester, Vermont. February 10, 2020.
• “One Night.”  Tahoma Literary Review.  Online.  December 2018.
• “Bon Mot feat. Rita Banerjee.”  Goddard Community College Radio.  91.1 / 97.1 FM Vermont.  November 11, 2018.
• “Sleep.”  Academy of American Poets: Poem-a-Day.  Online.  November 30, 2017.
• “Rooms are Never Finished: The Legacy of Agha Shahid Ali.”  Narr. Kazim Ali.  Poets House.  New York: April 21, 2017.
• “Episode 27: Suicides and Skeleton Jazz.” Narr. Kathleen Volk Miller et al.  Painted Bride Quarterly’s Slushpile.  Philadelphia, PA: February 9, 2017.
• “I Think You’re Totally Wrong: A Quarrel feat. David Shields and Charles Recoursé.”  Narr. Rita Banerjee.  Shakespeare and Company.  Paris: July 23, 2015.
• “Cambridge Writers’ Workshop Literary Cabaret feat. Rita Banerjee, Diana Norma Szokolyai, Gregory Crosby, and Leah Umansky.”  Emergency INDEX Vol2: Documenting Performance Annually.  Eds. Yelena Gluzman and Sophia Cleary.  Brooklyn, NY: Ugly Duckling Presse, 2012.
• “Rita Banerjee: Cracklers at Night.”  Narr. Kushlani de Soyza.  APA Compass. KBOO Radio.  Portland, OR: May 6, 2011.
• “Paper Men.”  Hearsay, Volume 1.  Ed. Reid Bingham.  New Brunswick, NJ: Hearsay Records, 2004.

Poetry:

• “Sunlight over Reykjavík” and “String Theory.”  Iterant, Issue 2: But We Kept Fighting.  Online.  October 2020.
• “One Night.”  Ruth Stone House.  Broadside.  Fall 2020.
• “The Figure.”  PoemCity.  Montpelier, VT.  April 1, 2020.
• “One Night.”  Tahoma Literary Review.  Online.  December 2018.
• “Georgia Brown,” and “The Suicide Rag.”  Painted Bride Quarterly, Issue 97, Print Annual 9.  Philadelphia, PA: Summer 2018.
• “Sleep.”  Academy of American Poets: Poem-a-Day.  Online.  November 30, 2017.
• “Ilha Formosa.”  Hyphen Magazine.  Online.  March 2017.
• “Chicago Ode.”  Mass Poetry: Poem of the Month.  Online.  October 2016.
• “Birds on Blue.”  Queen Mob’s Tea House.  Online.  March 2016.
• “Please Listen and Do Not Return” and “Storyteller.“  The Monarch Review.  Seattle, WA: September 2015.
• “Pygmalion & the Slippers” and “Currency.”  Riot Grrrl Magazine.  Online.  August 2015.
• “Romani Folk Poem,” “Kaddish,” and “A Hymn to Beauty.”  Quail Bell Magazine.  Falls Church, VA: Spring 2015.
• “Who Lamb.”  Quail Bell Magazine.  Falls Church, VA: Winter 2014.
• “America Ode.”  Amethyst Arsenic.  Somerville, MA: Summer 2013.
• “Expectation.”  Dr. Hurley’s Snake-Oil Cure.  Boston, MA: February 2012.
• “Small Berries.”  Million-Line Poem.  North Adams, MA: Tupelo Press, Fall 2011.
• “Without Representation.”  Poets for Living Waters.  Brooklyn, NY: Summer 2010.
• “The Figure,” and “At Bougival.”  Catamaran.  Storrs, CT: Spring 2007.
• “Didgeridoo, a Bird.”  The Dudley Review.  Cambridge, MA: Spring 2007.
• “The moon had jackknifed.”  Crab Creek Review.  Seattle, WA: February 2007.
  (Winner of the 2006 Crab Pot Poetry Contest)
• “Fall all that Glitters,” and “Late December, Walnut Creek.”  Chrysanthemum.  Seattle, WA: Spring 2006.
• “Napalm, 1972,” “For Otis and Charles,” “Paper Men,” and “Christina’s World.”  Objet d’Art.  New Brunswick, NJ: 2003-2004.

Publication Awards & Recognition:

• Judge for 2020 Sustainable Montpelier “What Comes Next?”  Writing Competition
• Judge for 2019 Vermont Poetry Out Loud State Championship
• Judge for 2019 Spider Road Press Flash Fiction Contest
• Vermont Studio Center Artist’s Grant * 2018
• Judge for the 2017 Minerva Rising “Dare to Speak” Poetry Chapbook Contest
• Echo in Four Beats (poetry manuscript)
  • Selected for the Ruth Stone Foundation BookClub (2020)
  • Nominated for the 2019 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize at the Academy of American Poets
  • Finishing Line Press’s 2018 Nominee for the National Book Award in Poetry
  • Nominated for the 2018 Kate Tufts Discovery Award
  • Book Riot’s “Must-Read Poetic Voices of Split This Rock 2018
  • Finalist for the 2017 Three Mile Harbor Poetry Book Prize
  • Shortlisted for Aquarius Press 2016 Willow Books Literature Award
  • Finalist for Red Hen Press 2015 Benjamin Saltman Award
• Cracklers at Night (poems).  Georgetown, KT: Finishing Line Press, 2010.
  • (First Honorable Mention for Best Poetry Book of 2011-2012 in the Los Angeles Book Festival)
• “The moon had jackknifed.”  Crab Creek Review.  Seattle, WA: February 2007
  • (Winner of the 2006 Crab Pot Poetry Contest)
• University of Washington Poetry Prize (2006)
• Evelyn Hamilton Award for Creative Writing (2004)