Debmalya Bandyopadhyay

Debmalya (he/him) is a writer currently based in Birmingham, United Kingdom. His poems, essays, and translations have appeared or are forthcoming in Chestnut Review, Southern Humanities Review, The Bombay Literary Magazine, and Rust & Moth, among other literary journals. He was a finalist for the Grouse Grind Lit Prize, Osmosis Poetry Prize, Sweet Literary's Poetry Prize, Sophon Lit's Poetry Contest, and Briefly Write Poetry Prize. His poems have been anthologised in The Yearbook of Indian Poetry in English (2023) and the Propel Anthology. He has been nominated for Best of the Net. He is a Brooklyn Poets Mentee for 2025.

He is part of the poetry team at The Bombay Literary Magazine. Previously, he was a poetry reader for Verdant, a Toronto-based literary journal. He writes a cultural column for Indigenous.

When not writing or doing maths, he likes to read, play an instrument, or confabulate with birds in a park.

Selected Publications

Poetry

Boyfacts, and Practice Makes Perfect in So To Speak (2025)
Hypnosis Therapy in Funicular Magazine (2025)
A House on Fire in Chestnut Review (2025)
Turning a Mirror in Pinhole Poetry (2025)
Reversal in The Passionfruit Review (2025)
A cow, one summer morning, The Drowning, and On Godliness in The Bombay Literary Magazine (2024)
After the drowning in Briefly Write (2024) (Finalist for the Briefly Write Poetry Prize 2024)
Eavesdropping in Rust & Moth (2024)
Hoofsound in The Dodge (2024)
Self-portrait as an abandoned water bottle in Ballast Journal (2024)
Kitchen Slug in Ghost City Review (2024)
Fisherboy in LEON Literary Review (2024)
Species in Sontag Magazine (2024) (Nominated for Best of the Net)
Insomnia in Sweet Literary (2024) (Finalist for the 2024 Poetry Prize)
When my partner is sad, she thinks she's a in Couplet Poetry (2024)
A wormhole is in Propel Magazine (2024) (Selected for the Propel Anthology)
Spider in Anthropocene Poetry (2023) (Selected for The Yearbook of Indian Poetry in English)
Knock, Knock in CounterClock (2023)
Riding into the wrong light, Flight, and Meteor Shower in The Hooghly Review (2023) (Meteor Shower nominated for Best of the Net)
November arriving and Winter poem in The Alipore Post (2021)

Personal Essays and Translations

Love and Loss: in Bhaskar's Light in Indigenous (2024)
Chicken Curry in On Eating (2024)
Rowing across languages in Indigenous (2023)
My Moonwashed Horizons: Moheen and I in Indigenous (2022)
The Poet in Translation: Six poems by Shankha Ghosh in Indigenous (2022)
Ganesh Pyne: A Dreamer of Darkness in Indigenous (2021)
A Museum of Fleeting Images in Spacebar Magazine (2021)

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