Hi, I'm Vikram Ramakrishnan. I was born in Bangalore to Tamil parents, moved to the United States when I was two, and grew up in Albuquerque, New Mexico. After graduating from the University of Pennsylvania, I lived in San Francisco and Boston before landing in New York.

I'm the winner of the 17th Annual Gival Short Story award. My fiction has appeared in the Chicago Quarterly Review, the Minnesota Review, Asimov's Science Fiction, and elsewhere. Other stories were published in The Year's Top anthology and nominated for the Pushcart Prize and the BSFA's Short Fiction Award. I tend to write about families, friendships, and outcasts, and recently I'm drawn to the unspoken costs of communal pressure.