Sameer Pandya is a fiction writer and an interdisciplinary literary and cultural studies scholar. In both his fiction and scholarship, Pandya is primarily interested in the question of cultural dislocation and racial identity among South Asian Americans. His novel MEMBERS ONLY, published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in 2020, was named an NPR Best Books of 2020 and was a finalist for the 90th Annual California Book Award in Fiction.