Vasugi V. Ganeshananthan, a fiction writer and journalist, is a 2002 graduate of Harvard College and a 2005 graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop. In 2007, she graduated from the new M.A. program at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, where she was a Bollinger Fellow specializing in arts and culture journalism.
She has written for The Atlantic Monthly, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Sepia Mutiny, and The American Prospect, among others. A former vice president of the South Asian Journalists Association, she currently serves on the board of the Asian American Writers' Workshop and on the graduate board of The Harvard Crimson.
in 2005-2006, she was the Bennett Fellow and writer-in-residence at Phillips Exeter Academy. In fall 2008, she taught at Skidmore College as a writer-in-residence. She now teaches at the University of Michigan, where she is the Zell Visiting Professor of Creative Writing.
Random House published her first novel, Love Marriage, in April 2008. Washington Post Book World named the book one of its Best of 2008. It was also longlisted for the Orange Prize.