Vikram Chandra is a highly decorated author and creative writing professor. He graduated from Mayo College, Ajmer before studying a Bachelor's Degree in English Language and Literature/Letters at Pomona College. He continued his studies by earning a Master's Degree in Creative Writing at the University of Houston and The Johns Hopkins University.

Chandra has authored three highly acclaimed books, Red Earth and Pouring Rain, Love and Longing in Bombay, and Sacred Games. Red Earth and Pouring Rain won the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Book and the David Higham Prize for Fiction. Love and Longing in Bombay won the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best Book and was shortlisted for the Guardian Fiction Prize. Lastly, Sacred Games won the Hutch Crossword Prize for Fiction in English and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction.

In addition to his writing, Chandra was formerly a Professor at George Washington University and a Teaching Professor at UC Berkeley. He is currently the CEO and co-founder of Granthika Co. Chandra's work has been translated into nineteen languages, published in prestigious magazines such as the Paris Review and the New Yorker, and he was awarded a Guggenheim fellowship in 2015.