Sumita Nandy was born on 27th October, 1970, in Khardah, West Bengal, India. She is an award winning Bengali poet, presently residing in Durgapur, West Bengal, India. Sumita has been writing for over a decade and she has now established herself on a firm platform for herself. She has received many awards for her poems. Sumita has three poetry books to her credit, namely, (i) Stabdhatar Gunjan (Humming of Silence) published in December 2005 by Prantar Publication, (ii) Dirgha Galper Shese (At the End of a Long Story) published in October 2011 by Prantar Publication, (iii) Tipshoi, Kharadag (Left Thumb Impression, Scratch) published in April 2013 by Prantar Publication. Sumita has received 'Durgapur Sahitya Samman' from Nikhil Bharat Banga Sahitya Sammelan, Durgapur branch in March 2012 and 'Poet Sikha Samanta Smriti Samman' in April 2013. Apart from writing in Bengali periodicals like Nandan, Kabisammelan, Udbodhon, etc., she has also been a part of many little magazines published from various parts of West Bengal, Tripura, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Delhi. Sumita’s poem (translated into English) has also been included in The Unheard I, authored by Kiriti Sengupta, a poet, and a bestselling author from Calcutta, India. In recent times four of her poems were published in a literary anthology, Scaling Heights, edited by Gopal Lahiri of Mumbai, India.