Rahul Mehta was born in 1973 in West Virginia, USA, to Indian Gujarati immigrant parents. Mehta earned a BA from the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill and an MFA in Creative Writing from Syracuse University. Mehta’s short stories and essays have appeared in The Iowa Review, The Kenyon Review, The Sun, New Stories from the South, The New York Times Magazine, the International Herald Tribune, the Lambda Literary Review, Marie Claire India, and other publications. He lives in the USA with his partner and their dog and has taught writing and literature at several institutions, including Alfred University, New York, and the University of the Arts, Philadelphia. Mehta is the author of two books: Quarantine: Stories (2010) and No Other World: A Novel (2017). Mehta’s writing primarily focuses on the various ways in which second-generation queer Indian American diasporans negotiate with their multifarious complexities vis-à-vis race, sexuality, family, home, and a sense of belonging. Specifically, the author’s work has showcased how taxing it can be for queer diasporans to fully live their lives while simultaneously bridging generational gaps, revisiting past homes, confronting losses that accompany change, and refashioning their diasporic subjectivities.