-Writer & Photographer-
DEVI S. LASKAR
FORTHCOMING BOOKS
Midnight, At The War
Release date: April 14, 2026
"At a time when honest and brave journalism could not be more important, Devi Laskar shows us what covering news we don't always want to hear ought to look like, how it ought to be done and the high cost in particular to the women who take on the task. That Laskar manages to do so in a story that is also an intimately personal family story, a page-turner, and an exquisitely-crafted read is rather miraculous. This brilliant, devastating, necessary, and ultimately hopeful book -- read it now."
- Meg Waite Clayton,
Author of
Typewriter Beach
&The Postmistress of Paris
"In Midnight at the War, Laskar masterfully entwines the intimate and the political, crafting a story that surges with urgency and depth. It’s a narrative you don’t simply read—you surrender to it, pulled under by prose so luminous and a story so commanding that resistance is impossible."
- Nina Schuyler,
Author of
In This Ravishing World
& Afterword
"Laskar has created a complex heroine for our complex times: a journalist who fights for what she knows to be right and just, but can't find the same clarity with the men she loves. Laced with rat-a-tat-tat humor, fast-paced scenes, and war-ravaged settings, Midnight, at the War is a powerful punch of a story about what happens when you stop being your own worst enemy."
- Alka Joshi,
Author of
The Henna Artist
& Six Days in Bombay
Debut poetry collection,
Self-Portraits Ex Machina
Release date: Nov. 21, 2025
"Self-Portraits Ex Machina is a searing collection that dispenses thunder and lightning through its poems. Divine intervention is replaced by human resilience, strength, ingenuity and vulnerability. Through innovative haibuns, contrapuntal poems and other experimental forms, Devi Laskar’s work encompasses everything from burning crosses and Klan rallies to powerful meditations on motherhood, marriage, and food that carry the weight of cultural memory."
–Shikha Malaviya,
Author of
Anandibai Joshee: A Life in Poems
“These poems render personal history as haunting revelations…”
– Elizabeth Rosner
Author of
Third Ear & Survivor Cafe
“A collection that demands lingering with one’s own biases while simultaneously facilitating the abolishment of the boundaries that enable them. ”
– Ewa Chrusciel
Author of
Yours, Purple Gallinule
UPCOMING EVENTS
JazzFest KolkataDecember 5th, 2025 (Time TBD)Dalhousie Institute in Kolkata
OTHER RELEASES
Upcoming EP Release
Debut record album forthcoming from Someplace Called Brooklyn label Winter 2025
ACCOLADES
“Devi S Laskar's debut novel is a "searing meditation" on race and gender”
— DNA India
“Laskar’s stunning debut skillfully tackles … racism … in a mosaic.”
“A …. harrowing fever dream of a novel…”
— Nayomi Munaweera, author of Island of a Thousand Mirrors
“… [A] fiery honest reckoning with today’s cultural landscape…” — Elizabeth Rosner, author of Survivor Cafe
“An unforgettable exploration of what it means to be a woman of color in contemporary America…” — Jean Kwok, author of Girl in Translation
“…mining the most searing art out of a horror pulled straight from current events…” — Victor LaValle, author of The Changeling
