Rita Mookerjee

Rita Mookerjee is an assistant professor of Interdisciplinary Studies at Worcester State University. Her poetry collection False Offering was published by JackLeg Press in 2023. She won the 2023 Steel Toe Books Poetry Award for Banana Heart, a forthcoming collection. Her poems have appeared in journals including CALYX, Copper Nickel, Poet Lore, and American Poetry Review, and she edits for Split Lip Magazine and Sundress Publications.