Rajeev Balasubramanyam
His work has been awarded the Betty Trask Prize and the Clarissa Luard Award for the best British writer under 35, and has been longlisted for the Guardian Fiction Prize and shortlisted for the BBC Asia Award and the Ian St. James Award. His writing has appeared in Vice, The Washington Post, The Economist, London Review of Books, McSweeney’s, The Paris Review, and other publications. He is a graduate of Oxford and Cambridge Universities and holds a PhD in English and Creative Writing.
Until 2011 he was a Research Scholar in the Society of Scholars at the University of Hong Kong, and from 2014-16 was a fellow of the Hemera Foundation for writers with a meditation practice, which included residencies at Crestone Zen Mountain Center and the Zen Center of New York City. He currently lives and works in Berlin.