Rajorshi Chakraborti is an Indian-born novelist, essayist and short story writer. He was born in 1977 in Calcutta, and grew up there and in Bombay. He has also lived and studied in Canada, England and Scotland, and now lives with his family in Wellington, New Zealand.

Rajorshi is the author of five novels and a collection of short fiction. Or the Day Seizes You was shortlisted for the Crossword Book Award in 2006, one of the best-known prizes for English-language writing in India. Mumbai Rollercoaster received an honourable mention in the Children’s Writing category of the Crossword Book Awards 2011.

Rajorshi has also published reviews, short stories and essays in several periodicals and anthologies. His story ‘Knock, Knock’ won second prize in the 2011 Sunday Star-Times Short Story Awards. He belongs to the Write Where You Are Trust in Wellington, and is currently part of a team offering creative-writing classes at the men’s and women’s prisons in the region.

For more on Rajorshi’s work, please visit www.rajorshichakraborti.com.