Oindrila Mukherjee was born in Kolkata, 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 Editor and Review Editor for Gulf Coast magazine. She is currently completing her first novel, The Extraordinary Sins of Ordinary Indians. 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 in his book Part Autobiography. Her reviews have been published in India and the U.K. She continues to contribute articles to Indian newspapers. Oindrila won the Inprint/ Diana P. Hobby award for fiction in 2007. Her short story, "The Ways We Cook Fish," a finalist in Glimmer Train's "Family Matters" contest, and shortlisted for both the Eric Hoffer and Tom Howard short story contest for 2009, is forthcoming in Hopewell Publication's Best New Writing 2010 this October.