ABOUT
Writer
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Kassie Sarkar
Editor
Artist
I am a writer, artist, and narrative cartographer working at the intersections of story, symbol, and sensation.
My creative practice moves across disciplines—fiction, visual art, editorial cartography, research—all guided by a devotion to meaning and the quiet architectures that shape our inner worlds.
My work is rooted in pattern-recognition, cosmology, and decolonial storywork.
Whether I’m mapping a novel’s emotional physics, building constellatory diagrams, writing speculative fiction, or creating visual art shaped by lineage and myth, I follow the same principle:
stories reveal themselves when we learn to listen differently.
I’m drawn to the hidden structures beneath language — the gravitational pulls, silences, wounds, desires, and symbolic echoes that shape how we make and understand meaning.
In all forms of my work, I try to render those structures visible so others can sense their own worlds with greater clarity and gentleness.
This website is a home for the many threads of my practice:
narrative cartography, literary work, visual experiments, research curiosities, and the evolving body of art that emerges when I follow the faint trails stories leave behind.
Kassie Sarkar is an interdisciplinary writer, artist, and community organizer dreaming on the colonized lands of the Munsee Lenape peoples. Her poetry appears in Pleiades. She holds degrees from the University of Chicago and Emory University. Kassie dedicates her creative energy to her multigenre writing, art practices, and developmental editing work and wears hats in the fields of early childhood education; art, archives, and museums; and interdisciplinary research. In her carrier bag, she holds central the tenets of radical reimagination and many decolonial futurisms.
ARTIST STATEMENT
What does she specialize in?
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Poetry
Fiction- Literary and Speculative
Creative Non Fiction
Essays
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Developmental Editing using the Mriga Narrative Cartography Method
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Mixed Media Collage
Graphic Design
Fiber Arts
Charcoal Drawings
Painting
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Curate original exhibits
Support curators with their exhibits
Lead Curator:
“Voices from the Other Side: Artist Books from Phillips State Prison” Exhibit, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, Fall 2019-Spring 2020
Summer 2025 Student Art Exhibit, Private Preschool, NJ
Summer 2024 Student Art Exhibit, Private Preschool, NJ
DeKalb Diversity Stories: Community Art Contest and Virtual Exhibit, Porter Sanford Center x Emory University CBSC Fellowship, Atlanta, GA, Summer 2020
Support work:
“Donald Locke: Resistant Forms,” Archival & Social Media Assistant, The Donald Locke Studio, 2025-2026
“Bob Thompson: This House is Mine,” Curatorial Intern, Smart Museum of Art, Chicago, IL, Fall 2021-Spring 2022
“Native American Art at the Field Museum,” student in class at UChicago, The Field Museum, Chicago, IL, Fall 2021