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ABOUT SATI

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Sati Mookherjee (SHAH-tee MOO-kher-jee) is a poet and lyricist. Her work  appears in literary journals and anthologies. Her collaborations with contemporary classical composers have been performed or recorded by ensemble (The Esoterics, Contemporary Chambers and Players) and solo musicians (Hope Wechkin, Leaning Toward the Fiddler). Recipient of an Artist Trust/ Washington State Arts Commission Fellowship Award, she is a lifelong resident of the Pacific Northwest. A  third book, Deś,  is forthcoming from Pulley Press, in May 2025.

Sati Mookherjee grew up in Bellingham, WA, the child of Indian immigrants, and spent the summers of her childhood in Kolkata (then Calcutta), India. She speaks  fluent Bengali.  She was graduated with a BA (English, Creative Writing, Phi Beta Kappa, magna cum laude) from the University of Washington, and a MD from the University of Washington School of Medicine. She has worked as a medical writer, a political campaign manager, and Policy and Special Projects Coordinator for the City of Bellingham. In 2011 she became the founded Sendan Center, a child and adolescent mental and behavioral health clinic that serves children, families and schools in Whatcom and Skagit Counties., and served as COO for the next decade. She presently serves on the Board of the Cascadia International Women’s Film Festival and is a former member of the Corporate Board of the Boys and Girls Club of Whatcom County, a founding board member of CommunityWise Bellingham, and former Board Chair of the Whatcom Community Foundation.

Sati is passionate about the  pleasures of this unique art form and is asked  to audiences of all kinds,: physician groups, faith communities,  bookclubs, and fellow poets.

She  teaches  writers of diverse ages and experience levels, from residents of Seattle’s Ida Culver House, to elementary, middle and high school students, community writers and  community college and university undergraduate and graduate students.