Suketu Mehta is the New York-based author of "Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found," which was a finalist for the 2005 Pulitzer Prize, the Lettre Ulysses Prize, the BBC4 Samuel Johnson Prize, and the Guardian First Book Award. He has won the Kiriyama Prize, the Whiting Writers' Award, the O. Henry Prize, and a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship for his fiction.

Mehta is currently working on a nonfiction book about immigrants in contemporary New York, supported by a 2007 Guggenheim fellowship. His latest book, "This Land is Our Land," was published by Farrar Straus & Giroux in June 2019. His work spans across noted publications such as The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, National Geographic, and Time.

In addition to his literary accomplishments, Mehta has contributed to cinema by writing original screenplays for films, including "New York, I Love You." He is an Associate Professor of Journalism at New York University. Mehta was born in Calcutta and raised in Bombay and New York. He is a graduate of New York University and the Iowa Writers' Workshop.

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