Vijay Seshadri is a Brooklyn, New York-based Pulitzer Prize winning poet, essayist, and literary critic. He won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for his poetry book 3 Sections.

Seshadri has been an editor at The New Yorker, as well as an essayist and book reviewer in The New Yorker, The New York Times Book Review, The Three penny Review, The American Scholar, and various literary quarterlies.

He has received grants from the New York Foundation for the Arts, National Endowment for the Arts, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation; and area studies fellowships from Columbia University.

As a professor and chair in the undergraduate writing and MFA program at Sarah Lawrence College he has taught courses on 'Non-Fiction Writing', 'Form and Feeling in Nonfiction Prose', 'Rational and Irrational Narrative', and 'Narrative Persuasion'.