Indu Sundaresan is an American author. She was born and raised in India, and migrated to the United States for graduate school. Trained as an economist, her short fiction has appeared in The Vincent Brothers Review and on iVillage.com. She lives in the Seattle, Washington area.

One of the novels Indu Sundaresan has written is The Twenthieth Wife which is about how a girl named Mehrunissa becomes Empress of the Mughal Empire. Another is The Feast of Roses, the sequel to The Twentieth Wife.