• …a writer…
• …of pulp-flavored science fictions that frequently feature guns, apocalypses, rocketships, robots, talking animals, clones (oh god, so many clones) and made-up words.
• …of socially satirical Fahrenheit 451s that posit dubiously dystopian futures in order to make a tortured point about modern life.
• …of domestic dramas about families that love each other but don’t know it, and people who make tiny, momentous decisions that no one else ever notices.
• …of fantastically illogical worlds that spring from half-remembered Jungian dreamscapes.
• …of bizarrely stilted, strangely-structured wordplays that he can never manage to sell to anyone.

• …a reader (of all of the above and more) who…
• …never quite managed to grasp the “right way” to read–the way they teach you in English classes–and writes 50+ blog posts a year whose subtext is, “Look at me! I can see things in books too, they’re just different things!”
• …spent twelve years (from ages 10 to 22) reading everything that science fiction and fantasy had to offer, from Terry Goodkind to Kelly Link, from David Weber to Ted Chiang, and then realized that if he was going to devote his life to the written word, he needed to read everything else, too.
• …also loves graphic novels about angsty twentysomethings, paranormal romances about choosing between a vampire and a werewolf, chick-lit novels about your horribly entitled boss and your stylish Manhattan life, and crime novels about ordinary schmoes who are horribly punished for believing that they might actually deserve something better.
• …cites Borges, Tolstoy, Willa Cather, John Steinbeck, Emile Zola, V.S. Naipaul, Sinclair Lewis, Jeff Vandermeer, Aimee Bender, James Tiptree, Kelly Link, Ted Chiang, and Brian Francis Slattery as his favorite authors, but sometimes wonders if the real answers might not be Ayn Rand, L. Ron Hubbard, Isaac Asimov, Robert Heinlein, Lois McMaster Bujold, and David Weber

• …an international development consultant who…
• …works on environmental operations in South Asia: mostly Pakistan, Bangladesh, and India.
• …currently has only one client: his former boss at the World Bank.

• …a pointy-headed bi-coastal elite who was…
• …born in Redwood City, CA, in 1985.
• …raised in Northwest Washington, D.C.
• …educated at Stanford University, from which he graduated with a B.A. in Economics in 2008.
• …trained at World Bank HQ in D.C., where he worked for two years after graduating from college.

• …currently a resident of Oakland, CA, where he…
• …enjoys the glamorous life of a badass California queer.
• …has begun to embrace his previously dormant hipster identity (as evidenced by the photos on this page).
• …was recently tear-gassed*.

Rahul, observing a protest–which occurred six blocks from his apartment–against the forces of global capitalism (i.e. Rahul’s lunch ticket)

*This incident may have occurred several years ago, depending on how lazy I get about updating this page.