Suketu Mehta is Associate Professor of Journalism at New York University, author of Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found, and winner of the Kiriyama Prize and the Hutch Crossword Award. Maximum City was also a finalist for the 2005 Pulitzer Prize and the Lettre Ulysses Prize. In addition, Mehta is a recipient of the Whiting Writers Award, the O. Henry Prize, and a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship for his fiction. Mehta's work has been published in the New York Times Magazine, National Geographic, Granta, Harpers Magazine, Time, and Condé Nast Traveler. He is currently working on a nonfiction book about immigrants in contemporary New York, for which he was awarded a 2007 Guggenheim fellowship. Mehta is a graduate of New York University and the Iowa Writers' Workshop.