Born in Purulia, West Bengal, India,[2] Bashabi Fraser moved to the United Kingdom when she was young.
Her mother Anima was awarded a scholarship to the London School of Economics and her father Bimalendu Bhattacharya became the first Commonwealth Scholar from India hosted in the UK.
Her profile on the ScoTs website states that "Her research and writing reflect her interest in diasporic themes: the intermeshings of culture and identity, of dislocation and relocation, of belonging and otherness, of memory and nostalgia, of third space and hybridity and of conflicts and freedoms.
"[1] She is chief editor of Gitanjali and Beyond, an academic and creative peer-reviewed online journal associated with ScoTs,[5] and is on the editorial board of WritersMosaic, a platform for writers of colour which is an initiative of the Royal Literary Fund.
[6] Fraser has been described as "chief ideator" of the Intercultural Poetry and Performance Library, an organisation made up of various creative individuals and formed in 2017 under the Kolkata Indian Council for Cultural Relations.