Rajeev Balasubramanyam is a novelist whose awards include the Betty Trask Prize and the Clarissa Luard Prize for the best British writer under 35. The first chapter of his latest novel, PROFESSOR CHANDRA FOLLOWS HIS BLISS, will be published in the Missouri Review later this month. He writes for VICE, the New Statesman, Washington Post, and the London Review of Books, and is a graduate of Oxford and Cambridge Universities. He was recently writer in residence at the Zen Center of New York City.