page_title: Sayantani DasGupta
section_title: Publications
hierarchical_section_title: Sayantani DasGupta / Publications
caption_attribution_description: English: Sayantani DasGupta BookExpo America 2018 at the Javits Convention Center in New York City.
context_page_description: Sayantani DasGupta is an American physician and author of Indian heritage.
context_section_description: Sayantani 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. 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)  published by Scholastic 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.
caption: DasGupta at an autographing booth at BookExpo America in 2018, promoting The Serpent's Secret
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