About

suchita is a poet and essayist based in the greater tkaronto region. They were born in India and lived briefly in saudi/abu dhabi/dubai before immigrating to so-called-canada as a child. They are interested in how we witness, experience, facilitate, and benefit from systems of violence, and how each system is interconnected, interdependent on the other. Engaging with history from the personal to the mythological, their writing considers the ways we become exiled from our home/land/bodies through trauma; and the contradictions of the immigrant-settler who is in exile yet also facilitating exile. When capacity allows, they’re researching and writing into the mahabharata to understand the ways the epic has been used to justify caste, class, religious, anti-queer, anti-black, and climate violence in india and its diasporas.