Elizabeth Chakrabarty

Elizabeth Chakrabarty's debut novel Lessons in Love and Other Crimes, inspired by experience of race hate crime, was published in 2021 by the Indigo Press, along with her essay, On Closure and Crime. Readers of Lessons in Love and Other Crimes have highlighted its intriguing blend of experimental crime fiction, autofiction, critical race memoir, LGBTQ fiction and its foregrounding of British Asian and other ethnic minority characters. Lessons in Love and Other Crimes was longlisted for the prestigious Desmond Elliott Prize 2022, and it was also shortlisted for the Polari First Book Prize in the same year. Elizabeth was also shortlisted for the Dinesh Allirajah Prize for Short Fiction, and her story was published in the e-anthology by Comma Press. She was shortlisted for the Asian Writer Short Story Prize in 2016, and her story ‘Eurovision’ was published in Dividing Lines (Dahlia Publishing, 2017). Her poetry has been published by Visual Verse, and her short creative-critical work includes writing published in Glänta, Gal-Dem, New Writing Dundee, Wasafiri and the anthology Imagined Spaces (Saraband, 2020), and she was chosen as one of the runners up for the inaugural CrimeFest bursary for crime fiction authors of colour in 2022.