A former journalist and current pediatrician, Bindu Suresh studied literature at Columbia University and medicine at McGill University. Born in Wales, she spent equal parts of her childhood in Saskatchewan and Alberta before moving to Ontario and then Quebec. She currently lives in Montreal. She has written several short stories as well as a novella, 26 Knots (2019), and a novel, The Road Between Us (2025), which was longlisted for the Giller Prize.