Suketu Mehta is a renowned New York-based author known for his book Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found, which received notable accolades such as the Kiriyama Prize and the Hutch Crossword Award. It was also a finalist for the 2005 Pulitzer Prize, the Lettre Ulysses Prize, the BBC4 Samuel Johnson Prize, and the Guardian First Book Award.

His autobiographical exploration of Mumbai, Maximum City, published in 2004, delves into the city's complex underbelly. With a background that has seen him win a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship for his fiction, Mehta’s writing has been featured in prestigious publications such as The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, National Geographic, Granta, Harper’s, Time, Newsweek, and The New York Review of Books. His works have also been spotlighted on NPR’s Fresh Air and All Things Considered.

Mehta has expanded his storytelling expertise to screenwriting, co-writing the screenplay for Mission Kashmir and contributing to New York, I Love You (2008). His latest work, This Land Is Our Land: An Immigrant's Manifesto, published in June 2019, is a passionate defense of immigrants influenced by the impacts of colonialism. It was supported by a 2007 Guggenheim fellowship.

Born in Calcutta and raised in Bombay and New York, Mehta is an associate professor of journalism at New York University. He is an alumnus of New York University and the illustrious Iowa Writers’ Workshop.