SWAGATA GHOSH

WRITER | JOURNALIST | TUTOR

Swagata worked as a journalist on two continents for a decade and a half before joining Bath Spa University in 2013. It was during her time as a reporter in India and later as an editor with Johnston Press in England that she found her research calling, exploring Indo-European history through transnational writing. 
Her recently completed novella explores ideas of home and migration along cultural faultlines in 18th century Bengal, seen through the eyes of six European women. 
Swagata writes regularly for the National Geographic Traveller and other leading news and web publications in Britain, India and the Middle East. Her articles and Sunday covers have been published in The Deccan Chronicle, The Asian Age, The Times of India, The Telegraph, India and The Gulf News.
In 2017 and 2019, Swagata travelled on a British Council and Global Academy of Liberal Arts grant to teach creative writing and other arts at the National Institute of Design, India. She has also partnered with illustrators, animators, craftsmen and dancers at Chitrakatha’17 and Chitrakatha’19, the international student design festival at NID, India. 
In 2018-19, Swagata collaborated on a unique year-long project with HMP Guys Marsh, taking story-telling and creative writing inside prisons. Her sessions focussed on her writing and techniques of pitching in Publishing. The project led to the publication of the prison anthology, Chrysalis Chronicles in 2019. 
Swagata teaches Journalism and Publishing at Bath Spa University and lives in Wiltshire, England with her husband and twelve fish.