Anuradha Bhowmik Wins 2021 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize
Anuradha Bhowmik is the 2021 winner of the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize for her collection Brown Girl Chromatography. The collection, selected by new Starrett Poetry Prize judge and award-winning poet Aaron Smith, will be published by the University of Pittsburgh Press in the Pitt Poetry Series this fall, and will go on sale this September.
Anuradha Bhowmik is a 2022 Kundiman Fellow and a 2018 AWP Intro Journals Project Winner in Poetry, and she earned her MFA from Virginia Tech. Her poetry and prose have appeared in POETRY, Hayden's Ferry Review, diode poetry journal, The Sun, DIAGRAM, Indiana Review, New South, and elsewhere.
Established in 1981, the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize is administered by the University of Pittsburgh Press. Named in honor of Agnes Lynch Starrett, the press’s first director, the prize is awarded for a first full-length book of poems. It carries a cash award of $5,000 and publication by the University of Pittsburgh Press as part of the Pitt Poetry Series.
