Antara Mukherjee
Novelist
About
Antara Mukherjee is a writer and an observer of human behavior. She writes literary fiction in a voice that is visual, humorous and lends an emotional depth.
Her debut novel, ‘Beyond our Births’, has been published by Bloomsbury India in 2026. She is represented by Jayapriya Vasudevan of Jacaranda Literary Agency.
She holds an M.A. in English Literature from the University of Calcutta and has spent a decade working as a communications professional. She’s an alumnus of the Kolam Writers’ Workshop, the Himalayan Emerging Writers Residency Program and Asian Women Writers (AWW) – a platform by UK & US agents and editors recognising upcoming women writers from Asia. Her short stories and poems have appeared in several literary magazines and a play co-written by her has had several shows at the Bangalore International Centre.
She admires the writings of Rabindranath Tagore, Gabriel García Márquez, Virginia Woolf, Fyodor Dostoevsky, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Carson McCullers, Rachel Cusk, and Toni Morrison, and hopes that her work bears the imprint of their voices.
She lives in Mumbai with her husband, son and parents. Currently, she’s working on her fourth novel. She’s a full-time writer and every morning, she sets out to gather ant-scaled slivers, hoping they’ll bring home the crumb.
