Christopher Raja was born in Kolkata, India, on September 27, 1974. His family migrated from Kolkata to Melbourne, Australia, in 1986 when he was eleven. His mother was a teacher, and his father was a school principal in Kolkata before they emigrated. Raja’s father died when he was eighteen. Raja did his BA Honors, Graduate Diploma of Secondary Education, and a Postgraduate Diploma of Education from the University of Melbourne. After that, he worked at Art Monthly Australia from 2010 to 2011 as the NT Correspondent and taught in Melbourne and Alice Springs schools. Currently, he teaches History and English at St. Philips, Alice Springs. Raja is married to Natasha Raja, the co-author of his play The First Garden (2012), which was performed in botanical gardens around Australia. Apart from the play, he has published short stories, a novel, a memoir, and several essays, as he is interested in writing in all forms and genres. His short story “After the Wreck” was published in the Australian issue of Meanjin in 2004, which was later adapted for ABC Radio National in 2007.