Shumona Sinha was born on June 27, 1973, in Calcutta, West Bengal, India, where her upbringing deeply immersed her in Indian traditions, languages, and society during her formative years. Her literary journey commenced with books provided by her parents and her maternal aunt, Ratna Basu, a scholar and translator of German into Sanskrit. Sinha’s passion for literature and language became the foundation for her literary endeavors, culminating in her Bengali’s Best Young Poet Award in 1990. In 2001, she earned a master’s degree in French literature and linguistics from the Central Institute of English and Foreign Languages in Hyderabad. Subsequently, she was recruited by the French embassy in India to serve as an English-language assistant teacher in a junior high school in Paris, where she pursued an M-Phil in French language and literature from the Sorbonne University. In 2008, she achieved a significant milestone by publishing her debut novel, Fenêtre sur l’abîme ( Window on the Abyss).