Erika Banerji was born in Assam to Bengali parents. She grew up in New Delhi and moved to England in her early twenties. Drawing on her life in India and England, her prize-winning fiction is intimate and truthful, searching for those surprising moments of grace in the most ordinary existence.

Erika is the winner of the 2025 Harper’s Bazaar short story prize and was part of the London Library’s Emerging Writers programme2019-20.

Erika is working on a collection of interlinked short stories.

She is based in London.

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THE LONDON LIBRARY EMERGING WRITERS PROGRAMME 2019-2020