Swastika Mukherjee is a 20-year-old fiction writer and freelance literary editor based in Kolkata, India. Her writing delves into the sexual, cultural, and relational complexities of women navigating life within South Asian patriarchal structures. Her work often draws inspiration from the hills of Darjeeling, which plays an active role in shaping her characters’ trajectories. She self-published her debut novel, Postcards from Darjeeling, a coming-of-age work of literary fiction, at the age of sixteen, and since has edited over a dozen manuscripts across genres.