Suchitra Vijayan

She is the author of the critically acclaimed book Midnight's Borders: A People's History of Modern India (Melville House, New York) and How Long Can the Moon Be Caged? Voices of Indian Political Prisoners (Pluto Press). She is the 2023 New York Foundation for the Arts  Fellow in Nonfiction Literature.

As an attorney, she worked for the United Nations war crimes tribunals in Yugoslavia and Rwanda before co-founding the Resettlement Legal Aid Project in Cairo, which provides legal aid to Iraqi refugees. 

She is an award-winning photographer and the founder and executive director of the Polis Project, a hybrid research and journalism organization. She lives in New York and teaches at NYU Gallatin and Columbia University's Oral History Program.