Vasugi V. Ganeshananthan, a fiction writer and journalist, lives in New York. She is a 2002 graduate of Harvard College. In 2005, she received an MFA in fiction from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and in 2005-2006, she was the Bennett Fellow and writer-in-residence at Phillips Exeter Academy.

In 2007, she graduated from the new MA program at the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, where she was a Bollinger Fellow specializing in Arts & Culture journalism. She has written and reported for The Atlantic Monthly, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Sepia Mutiny, and The American Prospect, among others. She is a board member and former vice president of the South Asian Journalists Association. She also serves on the board of the Asian American Writers' Workshop and on the graduate board of The Harvard Crimson.

In fall 2008, she taught at Skidmore College as a writer-in-residence. This fall, she will begin teaching at the University of Michigan as 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.