About

Engaging in history from the personal to the mythological, Suchita is interested in how violence is legitimized and enacted on marginalized communities. She is investigating the ways we become exiled from our home/land/body through trauma, and the contradictions of the immigrant-settler in Turtle Island, who is both in exile and also facilitating exile. Currently, she is researching The Mahabharata as it is dispersed through India and the diaspora, and used to justify caste, religious, anti-queer, anti-black, and climate violence.
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Suchita was born in India and lived briefly in the U.A.E. before immigrating to so-called Canada as a child. She has an MFA in Poetry from New York University where she taught three semesters in the Undergraduate Creative Writing Program. She has also worked in web design and digital content management (see her portfolio). She is currently based in proximity to Tkaronto.

photograph of author. she is a light skinned indian woman laying on green grass and holding a yellow flower. she is wearing a red blouse and a cream and black patterned sari.