Rheea Mukherjee is the author of The Body Myth and was shortlisted for the TATA Literature Live First Book Award 2019. Her work has been featured in the Los Angeles Times, Buzzfeed, Scroll.in, Electric Literature, Out of Print Magazine, and Southern Humanities Review, among others. She co-founded Bangalore Writers Workshop in 2012 and co-runs Write Leela Write, a Design and Content Laboratory in Bangalore. She has an MFA (creative writing) from California College of the Arts. She lives in Bangalore.