Dipika Mukherjee
Fiction
Chicago, IL
Dipika Mukherjee is the author of the novel Shambala Junction, which won the UK Virginia Prize for Fiction, and Ode to Broken Things, which was longlisted for the Man Asian Literary Prize as Thunder Demons. Her short story collection is Rules of Desire. Her work is included in The Best Small Fictions 2019 and appears in World Literature Today, Asia Literary Review, Del Sol Review, The Commons, and Chicago Quarterly Review, among others. She writes a literary column for The Edge in Malaysia and is Contributing Editor for Jaggery. She is on the curating team and a featured writer in My America: Immigrant and Refugee Writers Today, a popular exhibit at the American Writers Museum.
Mukherjee teaches at StoryStudio Chicago and at the Graham School at University of Chicago. She holds a doctorate in English (Sociolinguistics). She has received grants and fellowships from the Illinois Arts Council Agency (USA), Faber Foundation (Catalonia), Sacatar (Brazil), Rimbun Dahan (Malaysia), Gladstone Library (Wales), and Centrum (USA). She featured in the 2018 Lit50: Who Really Books In Chicago, won the Fay Khoo Award for Food+Drink Writing (Malaysia, 2018), and received the Liakoura Prize for Poetry (USA, 2016). Her website is at dipikamukherjee.com.
