 Vijay's parents immigrated to the United States from Bangalore, India when he was five.He grew up in Columbus, Ohio, where his father taught chemistry at Ohio State University.Seshadri has been an editor at "The New Yorker", as well as an essayist and book reviewer in "The New Yorker", "The New York Times Book Review", "The Threepenny Review", "The American Scholar", and various literary quarterlies.