Moinak Dutta
has been writing poems and stories from school days. He is presently engaged as
a teacher of English in a government sponsored institution. Many of his poems
and stories are published in national and international anthologies and
magazines and also dailies including ‘Madras Courier’, 'The Statesman' (
kolkata edition), ' World Peace Poetry
anthology ' ( United Nations), ‘Spillwords’ ( published from New
York,USA), 'Setu' (published from Pittsburgh, USA,)Riding and Writing ( as a
featured poet twice, published from Ohio, USA), ' The Indian Periodical' '
Pangolin Review', ' Tuck Magazine' ' Duane's Poetree','Story mirror', ' Tell me
your story' ( literary and travel magazine), ‘ Nature Writing ‘ magazine ( U.K.),
‘ Oddball magazine’ ‘Soft Cartel’ magazine, ‘ Diff Truths’ magazine, ' Mason Street' ( literary journal of Newark
Public Library, NY, USA), ' Narrow Road' ,
‘ Ethos Literary Journal’,' The
Literary Fairy Tales' ' Defiant Dreams' ( a collection of stories on women
empowerment published by Readomania, New Delhi ), ‘Dynami Zois’ ( a selection
of short stories comprised of works of authors from India and abroad) ‘ Muffled
Moans’ ( a special anthology against women and child abuse, gender violence,
published by Authorspress, New Delhi,) ‘ Quesadilla and other adventures ( an
anthology of food poems published by Hawakal Publishers, Kolkata) etc ;
His notable
reviews are : on ' The Upanisads ' ( translated by Valerie J.
Roebuck) which can be found at www.blogapenguinindiaclassic.blogspot.com and
the review of ' The Ballad of Bapu' ( written by Santosh Bakaya). He has
written some essays and articles on education and literature and other topics
which had been published in both e- books/e - journals ( like Cafe
Dissensus) and as printed books/ papers ( like one on '
Amalgamation of social media and literature: pros and cons, published by Viswa
Bharati Research Centre and Sahitya Anand), ‘ Erothanatos’ ( academic and
literary journal), etc;
His first full length english( genre:
literary/romance ) fiction
‘Online@Offline’' was published in 2014,
by Lifi Publications. His second fiction(genre: literary/quest) titled ' In search of la
radice' was published in 2017 by Xpress Publications. He also worked as an
editor of a poetry collection titled ' Whispering Poeisis' , which had over one
hundred poems from sixty poets from different parts of India and abroad. It was
published in 2018 by Poeisis.