 Rakesh Satyal |
Blue Boy |
Genre: fiction |
| Published: 2009 |
| Rakesh Satyal graduated summa cum laude 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 magazines and 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. As an associate editor at Random House, Rakesh worked for such authors as Bill Bryson, Chuck Palahniuk, Bill O’Reilly, and Gore Vidal, and edited a number of books on the Doubleday Broadway list. He also conceived, acquired, and edited singer Tori Amos’s New York Times-bestselling memoir, Tori Amos: Piece by Piece. He is currently an editor at HarperCollins, where he edits such authors as international superstar Paolo 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 New York City. |