Koushik Banerjea
Koushik Banerjea is the author of two novels, both written while still the sole carer for his late mother: Another kind of Concrete (Jacaranda 2020) & Category Unknown (London Books 2022). His short stories have appeared in: FeignLit, Jerry Jazz Musician, Salvation in Stereo, Minor Literatures, Verbal, Writers Resist, and in the crime fiction anthologies, Shots in the Dark and Shots in the Dark II. He has had poems published in: Building Bridges, Third Space (Renard Press), Mogadored (Tangerine Press), Spinners, Scumbag Press, Razur Cuts magazine and online in House of Poetry magazine. A former youth worker and DJ, he has also previously worked as a journalist. Koushik recommends KhalsaAid.
He bears the hallmark of the fugitive. It’s there in the eyes with their flatlined glaze, or in that slump under the kurta, yet there’s also something entitled marking him out from the other flatliners these streets specialise in.
