Sayantani DasGupta (born 1970) is an American physician and author of Indian (

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) heritage.

Early life and education

DasGupta grew up in Ohio and New Jersey and completed her undergraduate studies at

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. She obtained her M.D and MPH degrees from

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Academia

Originally trained in

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and

public health Public health is "the science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life and promoting health through the organized efforts and informed choices of society, organizations, public and private, communities and individuals". Analyzing the de ...

, Sayantani now teaches in the Master's Program in

Narrative medicine Narrative medicine is the discipline of applying the skills used in analyzing literature to interviewing patients. The premise of narrative medicine is that how a patient speaks about his or her illness or complaint is analogous to how literature ...

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and the Graduate Program in Health Advocacy at

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. She is a nationally recognized speaker on issues of gender, race, storytelling, and medical education, and has been featured on the cover of ''

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'', in ''

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'', in documentary films and other media outlets. She is an associate editor of the journal ''

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Publications

DasGupta has been published widely in academic and literary outlets, and journals including ''JAMA'', ''

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'', ''

'', ''Literary Mama Magazine'', and ''Hunger Mountain''. She has written extensively with her activist mother, Shamita Das DasGupta, on mother-daughter experiences. 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. 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.New York Times Best Sellers- Children’s Middle Grade Hardcover
March 17, 2019.

Bibliography

Children's books

* ''She Persisted: Virginia Apgar'' (with

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, 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)

References

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