Dr. Moushumi Kandali’s latest book ‘The Black Magic Women’, published by Penguin Random House in 2022 is a remarkable contribution in the discourse of ‘Northeast Literature’, for which she was awarded the prestigious South Asia Ladli Media Award in the category of Literature( Fiction ) for the year 2023. She had also received many such awards such as Bharatiya Bhasha Parishad Award, Munin Borkotoki Award and others for her creative writings which had been anthologized into five collections of short stories so far in the last two decades.

As a bilingual (English and Assamese) author, art historian-critic, and translator, she has published eleven books by now. Her stories have appeared in the ‘Oxford anthology of North-East Writing,’ the Penguin’s anthology of ‘Fifteen classic Assamese short stories,’ and the ‘Greatest Assamese Stories Ever Told’ by Aleph Book Company which was amongst chosen as one of the select 25 powerful short stories within the span of 100 years of Assamese literature.

As an Art historian she has curated a museum of modern art at the Tezpur University named after the esteemed modernist artist of North East late Neelpawan Baruah, paving way for innovative pedagogy. Her areas of expertise as an academician include Visual culture and Arts, Aesthetics, Literary cultures of India, as well as an avid interest in Gender Studies. Currently she teaches at the department of Cultural Studies, Tezpur University , after her several years of teaching as permanent faculty at the Ambedkar University of Delhi.