Elizabeth Chakrabarty

Elizabeth Chakrabarty's debut novel Lessons in Love and Other Crimes was inspired by experience of race hate crime, and was published in 2021 by the Indigo Press, along with her essay, On Closure and Crime.

Elizabeth was longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize 2022 for Lessons in Love and Other Crimes. In 2022 she was also shortlisted for the Dinesh Allirajah Prize for Short Fiction, and her story will be published in an 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 and New Writing Dundee, and more recently, in Wasafiri, and the anthology Imagined Spaces (Saraband, 2020). She received an Authors’ Foundation Grant from The Society of Authors (UK) in December 2018, to support the writing of Lessons in Love and Other Crimes, and she was chosen as one of the runners up for the inaugural CrimeFest bursary for crime fiction authors of colour in 2022.