Dipika Mukherjee was born in India and then educated in Switzerland, Indonesia, New Zealand, Malaysia and the USA.
Her debut novel, Thunder Demons, was longlisted for the Man Asian Literary Prize 2009 and she won the Platform Flash Fiction competition in April 2009. Her most recent work has appeared in the Asia Literary Review (Hong Kong), The South Asia Review (USA), Flashquake (USA), Freefall (Canada), Del Sol Review (USA), Pilot Pocket Books (Canada), Quarterly Literary Review of Singapore (Singapore) New Writing Dundee (UK), Asiatic (Malaysia) and Muse India (India). She has edited two anthologies of short stories: Silverfish New Writing 6 (Silverfish, 2006) and The Merlion and Hibiscus (Penguin, 2002).
Her first poetry collection, The Palimpsest of Exile, was published by Rubicon Press (Canada) in April 2009. In May, 2010 her poem "Shanghai Shorts" was a Fish Poetry Prize finalist in Ireland and she has performed her work at Out Loud! in Shanghai, China; Huis van de Poëzie in Utrecht, Netherlands; The Seksan Reading Series in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; Hideout in Austin, Texas; The Sugar Factory, in Amsterdam, Netherlands; and the Iowa Summer Writing Festival, among other places.
She lives in Shanghai, China. She is married to Prasanta Kumar Dutt and they have two sons, Arohan and Arush.