Sayantani DasGupta

Sayantani DasGupta (born 1970)^[1] is an American physician and author of Indian (Bengali) heritage.

Sayantani DasGupta
Born	1970 (age 54–55) Columbus, Ohio, U.S.
Alma mater	Brown University Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Official website
Parents	Sujan Dasgupta (father) Shamita Das Dasgupta (mother)
Scientific career
Fields	Narrative medicine and Public health
Institutions	Sarah Lawrence College Columbia University

Early life and education

DasGupta grew up in Ohio and New Jersey and completed her undergraduate studies at Brown University. She obtained her M.D and MPH degrees from Johns Hopkins University.^[2]

Academia

Originally trained in pediatrics and public health, Sayantani now teaches in the Master's Program in Narrative medicine at Columbia University and the Graduate Program in Health Advocacy at Sarah Lawrence College. She is a nationally recognized speaker on issues of gender, race, storytelling, and medical education,^[3] and has been featured on the cover of Ms.,^[4] in O, The Oprah Magazine,^[5] in documentary films^[6] and other media outlets. She is an associate editor of the journal Literature and Medicine.^[7]

Publications

DasGupta at an autographing booth at BookExpo America in 2018, promoting The Serpent's Secret

DasGupta has been published widely in academic and literary outlets, and journals including JAMA, The Lancet, Ms., Literary Mama Magazine, and Hunger Mountain. She has written extensively with her activist mother, Shamita Das DasGupta, on mother-daughter experiences.^[8][9][10]

She is the co-author of a book on Bengali folktales, author of a memoir about her education at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, and co-editor of an award winning collection of women's illness narratives.^[11] Her debut middle-grade novel, The Serpent's Secret (Kiranmala and the Kingdom Beyond #1), came out in February 2018. Her second book, Game of Stars (Kiranmala and the Kingdom Beyond #2), published in February, 2019, entered the New York Times Bestseller list in its debut week.^[12]

Bibliography

Children's books

• She Persisted: Virginia Apgar (with Chelsea Clinton, illustrated by Alexandra Boiger and Gillian Flint) (2021)

Middle grade books

Kiranmala and the Kingdom Beyond

• The Serpent's Secret (2018)
• The Game of Stars (2019)
• The Chaos Curse (2020)

The Fire Queen

• Force of Fire (2021)
• Crown of Flames (2022)

Secrets of the Sky

• The Chaos Monster (2023)
• The Poison Waves (2023)

Young adult books

• Debating Darcy (2022)
• Rosewood: A Midsummer Meet Cute (2023)

As a contributor

• "Blue" in Two and Twenty Dark Tales: Dark Retellings of Mother Goose Rhymes (2012)
• "Daughter of the Sun" in Magic Has No Borders (2023)

Adult books

• The Demon Slayers And Other Stories: Bengali Folk Tales (with Shamita Das Dasgupta) (1994)
• Her Own Medicine: A Woman's Journey from Student to Doctor (1999)

As a contributor

• Speculative Fiction 2013: The Year's Best Online Reviews, Essays and Commentary (2014)
• Globalization and Transnational Surrogacy in India: Outsourcing Life (also editor) (2014)
• The Principles and Practice of Narrative Medicine (2016)
• Good Girls Marry Doctors: South Asian American Daughters on Obedience and Rebellion (2017)

As an editor

• Stories of Illness and Healing: Women Write Their Bodies (2007)