Suketu Mehta is a New York-based author and an associate professor of journalism at New York University. His book Maximum City won the Kiriyama Prize and the Hutch Crossword Award and was a finalist for the 2005 Pulitzer Prize, the Lettre Ulysses Prize, the BBC4 Samuel Johnson Prize and the Guardian First Book Award. He write an original screenplay for New York, I Love You, co-wrote Mission Kashmir, a Bollywood movie, as well as a novella What Is Remembered (2016).