Mridula Garg was born in 1938 and has a Master's degree in Economics from the Delhi School of Economics. She has won the Maharaja Vir Singh Puraskar from the Madhya Pradesh Sahitya Parishad in 1975 and the Delhi Hindi Academy Sahityakar Samman in 1991. She has many novels to her name, besides a number of short stories. She has also translated a few Hindi novels and stories into English.