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Rakesh
Satyal
graduated in 2002 with a B.A. in Comparative Literature and Creative Writing
from Princeton University, where he won the 2002
Ward Mathis Prize for best short story written by an undergraduate. He has been
published in a variety of anthologies, including the Lambda Award-winning The
Man I Might Become: Gay Men Write About Their Fathers and the second volume
of the Fresh Men series, which featured an introduction by Andrew
Holleran.
Rakesh is currently an editor at HarperCollins, where he
edits such authors as international superstar Paulo Coelho, horror maestro
Clive Barker, beloved novelist Armistead Maupin, and humorist Paul Rudnick. He
is also on the planning committee of the PEN World Voices Festival and speaks
frequently at writers' conferences.
In
his spare time, Rakesh sings jazz music. His act with noted publishing figure
Jonathan Burnham, "Rocky and Johnny," was featured on Page Six and the New
York Observer and mentioned in The New Yorker, New York,
the New York Times, and Time Out. Due to his trifecta of
editing-writing-singing, Rakesh was featured in the 2005 book The
Renaissance Soul by Margaret Lobenstine, a guide to balancing one's various
interests and hobbies. Rakesh is also a bona fide foreign language nerd and
budding chef.
Born and raised in Cincinnati, Ohio, Rakesh now lives in Brooklyn, New York
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