About Oindrila Mukherjee

Detailed Bio

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Oindrila Mukherjee grew up in India, where she worked as a journalist for the country's oldest English language newspaper The Statesman. She is the author of the debut novel The Dream Builders, published earlier in 2023, in the US by Tin House Books, in Australia and the UK by Scribe Publications, and in India by Harper Collins. She has a PhD in Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Houston and an MFA in Fiction from the University of Florida. Her shorter work  has appeared in Salon, Kenyon Review Online, Ecotone, Los Angeles Review of Books, The Oxford Anthology of Bengali Literature, The Colorado Review, and elsewhere. She was the creative writing fellow in fiction at Emory University. She has been the recipient of a Nehru Chevening Centenary Scholarship from the Cambridge Commonwealth Trust, the Diana P Hobby Prize from Inprint Houston, a Tennessee Williams Scholarship from the Sewanee Writers Conference and a fellowship from the Virginia Center of the Creative Arts. She is a a contributing editor for Aster(ix), a literary and arts magazine committed to social justice. She created a book series called Bottom Shelf for the Indian magazine Scroll.in, where she writes about lesser known or forgotten Indian books in English. She lives in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where she teaches creative writing at Grand Valley State University.

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Short Bio

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Oindrila Mukherjee grew up in India and now lives in Grand Rapids Michigan, where she teaches creative writing at Grand Valley State University. She is the author of the novel The Dream Builders, published on four continents in 2023.