Samrat Upadhyay was born and raised in Nepal. He is the author of the novels The City Son, The Guru of Love (a New York Times Notable Book), and Buddha's Orphans, as well as the story collections Mad Country, The Royal Ghosts, and Arresting God in Kathmandu, which earned him a Whiting Award. His work has also received the Asian American Literary Award and been shortlisted for the PEN Open Book Award and the Aspen Words Literary Prize. He is Distinguished Professor of English at Indiana University Bloomington.
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