Vika Mujumdar is a writer and critic based in Philadelphia. She was born in New Jersey and raised in Pune, India, and holds an MA in Comparative Literature and an MFA in Fiction from UMass Amherst. A 2025-2026 NBCC Emerging Critics Fellow, her work has appeared in the Cleveland Review of Books, Public Books, the Brooklyn Rail, and elsewhere. She edits Liminal Transit Review.