Prasenjit Mukherjee studied English Literature, topping his university at both the undergraduate and postgraduate levels, and taught briefly before joining the civil service. After a long career that took him across India and abroad, he retired and now lives in Gurgaon. Born to a family displaced from East Bengal, themes of displacement, loneliness, and rootlessness run through his poetry.

His work draws on memory, lived experience, and cultural myth, with Odisha and Kashmir recurring as significant landscapes. Apart from poetry, he has written fiction and translated from Bengali into English. His short stories have appeared in The Illustrated Weekly of India, and a playlet was published in Enact. He has also translated two novels by Saratchandra Chatterjee, published by Rupa & Co.