Durga Chew-Bose

Durga Chew-Bose is a writer based in Brooklyn, New York. Her first book, Too Much and Not the Mood, was published in 2017. Early life Chew-Bose was born in Montreal; her parents are from Kolkata. Her parents named her after the character Durga from the Satyajit Ray-directed film Pather Panchali. Chew-Bose moved to the United States at 17 to attend boarding school in New Mexico for two years. She went on to attend Sarah Lawrence College and spent a year at the University of Oxford. Career Chew-Bose has written for publications including The Guardian, BuzzFeed, The Hairpin, Rolling Stone, GQ, The New Inquiry, n+1, Interview, Paper, Hazlitt, and This Recording. In Nylon, Kristen Iverson described Chew-Bose as "one of our most gifted, insightful essayists and critics"; in The Guardian, Sarah Galo said, "If millennials have an intelligentsia, Brooklyn-based writer Durga Chew-Bose is a member of it[, writing] thoughtful long reads on identity and culture that command readers’ attention." Chew-Bose has also taught writing at Sarah Lawrence College. She has listed Agnès Varda and Wong Kar-wai among her important influences.