Jerry Pinto is a well-known poet, writer, editor and translator. He has an LLB from Government Law College, Mumbai and a degree in the humanities from Elphinstone College. He has written Em and the Big Hoom, a novel that won him The Crossword Prize, the Hindu Lit for Life Award and the Sahitya Akademi Award. In 2016, he was awarded the Windham-Campbell Award for Fiction from Yale, USA. His next novel Murder in Mahim won the Valley of Words Award for Fiction. His third novel The Education of Yuri has been published to near universal acclaim.
Jerry Pinto teaches journalism at the Social Communications Media department of the Sophia Polytechnic in Mumbai and was for 25 years on the board of directors of Meljol, which works in the sphere of child rights.