University of Pittsburgh Press announces the 2021 Starrett Award winner

The University of Pittsburgh Press has awarded the 2021 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize to Anuradha Bhowmik for her poetry collection “Brown Girl Chromatography,” a glimpse into Bhowmik’s life as a Bangladeshi-born American woman growing up as a first-generation immigrant in the United States.

Bhowmik, who currently resides in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, will be published by the press in the fall 2022 Pitt Poetry Series. She will also receive a $5,000 cash award.

Established in 1981, the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize is awarded for a first full-length book of poems. The award is named in honor of the press’s first director.