VIKA MUJUMDAR

Vika Mujumdar was born in New Jersey and raised in Pune, India. She holds an MA in Comparative Literature from UMass Amherst, where her thesis focused on motherhood, war, and language in the poetry of Aria Aber and Solmaz Sharif. She is currently an MFA student in Fiction at UMass Amherst. Her work has appeared in the Cleveland Review of Books, the Chicago Review of Books, Girls on Tops READ ME, the Brooklyn Rail, and elsewhere. She edits Liminal Transit Review.Bluesky: @vikamujumdar.bsky.social
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WRITING

Essays

“I understand now”: Aria Aber’s Good Girl and Maternal Recognition, Massachusetts Review, April 2025
Without the Poet, There is Only War: On Don Mee Choi's KOR-US Trilogy, Public Books, December 2024
Languages of Exile: On Aria Aber and Solmaz Sharif, Cleveland Review of Books, December 2023
Reading Dur e Aziz Amna's American Fever in Northampton, MA, Bilori Journal, November 2023 (Marathi translation here)
How Greta Gerwig left home, Girls on Tops READ ME, August 2023

Book Reviews

On Noémi Lefebvre's Speak/Stop, tr. Sophie Lewis, Full Stop, April 2025
On Sahar Muradi's OCTOBERS, Soapberry Review, March 2025
On Annie Ernaux and Marc Marie's The Use of Photography, Full Stop, March 2025
On Jennifer Chang's An Authentic Life, ANMLY, February 2025
On Ayşegül Savaş' The Wilderness, Full Stop Magazine, February 2025
On Grace Loh Prasad's The Translator's Daughter, Full Stop Magazine, September 2024
On Fine Gråbøl's What Kingdom, translated by Martin Aitken, Necessary Fiction, August 2024
On Xiao Yue Shan's then telling be the antidote, Full Stop, August 2024
On Elaine Hsieh Chou's Disorientation and JK Chukwu's The Unfortunates, Wasafiri, Spring 2024
On Balsam Karam's The Singularity, translated by Saskia Vogel, Massachusetts Review, January 2024
On Tone Schunnesson's Days & Days & Days, translated by Saskia Vogel, Necessary Fiction, November 2023
On Jhumpa Lahiri's Roman Stories, Brooklyn Rail, October 2023
On Kate Briggs' The Long Form, Necessary Fiction, October 2023
On T. Liem's Slows:Twice, ANMLY, July 2023
On Beth Nguyen's Owner of a Lonely Heart, Chicago Review of Books, July 2023
On Jenny Xie's Holding Pattern, Liminal Transit Review, June 2023
On Rachel Zucker's The Poetics of Wrongness, ANMLY, May 2023
On Emily Lee Luan’s 回 / Return, ANMLY, April 2023
On Hilde Domin's With My Shadow, translated by Sarah Kafatou, Massachusetts Review, April 2023
On Dur e Aziz Amna's American Fever, Liminal Transit Review, August 2022

Interviews

Patrycja Humienik for Liminal Transit Review, March 2025
Jessica Nirvana Ram for Liminal Transit Review, September 2024
Jess Yuan for Liminal Transit Review, July 2024
Susana Praver-Pérez for The Common, June 2024