Oindrila Mukherjee

Oindrila Mukherjee is an Associate Professor of creative writing at Grand Valley State University. She is the author of the novel The Dream Builders, published in the US by Tin House Books, in Australia by Scribe Publications, and is forthcoming this summer in India and the UK. She holds degrees in English and creative writing from universities in India, England, and the US, including a PhD in Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Houston. Oindrila grew up in India, where she worked as a journalist for the country’s oldest English-language newspaper The Statesman, before moving to the US twenty years ago. Her work has appeared in Salon, The Oxford Anthology of Bengali Literature, Los Angeles Review of Books, and several literary magazines in the US. She has been a regular contributor to the Indian magazine Scroll.in, where she created a series on little known or forgotten Indian books in English called Bottom Shelf. She serves as a contributing editor for Aster(ix), a literature and arts magazine committed to social justice.