Professor Oindrila Mukherjee
Ph.D. Literature and Creative Writing, University of Houston
M.F.A. Creative Writing, University of Florida
M.A., B.A. English, University of Cambridge; B.A. English, Jadavpur University
340 LOH | 331-8034 | mukherjo@gvsu.edu |
Oindrila Mukherjee is the author of the novel The Dream Builders, published by Tin House Books in the US, Scribe Publications in the UK and Australia, and Harper Collins in India. The novel was named one of the Best Books of January by Good Morning America and PureWow, a Buzziest Book of the New Year by Goodreads, and an Indie Next Pick, among others. Her short fiction, nonfiction, literary criticism, and translations from Bengali literature, have been published in Salon, The Kenyon Review, Ecotone, The Oxford Anthology of Bengali Literature, The Colorado Review, The Writers’ Chronicle, Los Angeles Review of Books, The Journal of Creative Writing Studies and elsewhere. She serves as a Contributing Editor for the literary and arts journal Aster(ix). She has been a regular contributor to the Indian magazine Scroll, where she created a book series called Bottom Shelf about little known or forgotten Indian books in English.
At Grand Valley, she currently serves on the faculty senate and teaches the following courses:
- WRT 219: Introduction to Creative Writing
- WRT 330: Intermediate Fiction Workshop
- WRT 360: Intermediate Nonfiction Workshop
- WRT 365: Intermediate Magazine Writing
- WRT 430: Advanced Fiction Workshop
- WRT 465: Advanced Magazine Writing
- WRT 495: (Capstone) Genre and Writing
