Creative Writing Program

Faculty

Oindrila Mukherjee

Creative Writing Fellow in Fiction

N110 Callaway Center
Creative Writing Program
Emory University
537 Kilgo Circle
Atlanta, GA 30322

404-727-8772 (Office)
404-727-4672 (Fax)
omukher@emory.edu (e-mail)

Spring 2011 office hours:
Thursday 1-2 p.m.

Oindrila Mukherjee was born in India. She holds a PhD in Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Houston, an MFA from the University of Florida, a BA and MA in English from the University of Cambridge, and a BA from Jadavpur University. Oindrila has worked as a journalist for The Statesman, India's oldest English language newspaper, and served as Fiction and Review Editor for Gulf Coast magazine. Her work has been published in India, England, and the U.S. Most recently, her fiction was published in Hopewell Publication's Best New Writing 2010 and in Indian Voices, Volume 1 (Fortytwo Bookz Galaxy), an anthology of Indian writers from around the world. Besides fiction, she writes plays and nonfiction, and translates Bengali literature to English. Her translations of Bengali poet Joy Goswami's poems have been published and are forthcoming in India and the U.S., and recently appeared in The Oxford Anthology of Bengali Literature. She has recently completed her first novel, set in England and India.

Oindrila will be joining Grand Valley State University as Assistant Professor of Creative Writing in Fall 2011.

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