I had harbored fiction-writerly ambitions for many years, but had never gotten around to it until now. Life had its way in the meantime, and after college, I found myself deeply engaged in the pursuit of a doctorate in Computer Science.  Which I did acquire, from Rutgers University. Afterward, I turned away from research, and dabbled in teaching, then ran my own technology consulting business, worked in computing R&D, did a turn at a dot com company in New York (not all of these sequentially), and finally returned to Rutgers to teach full-time in the Computer Science department. ​All along I was writing, indeed, but every bit of it was technical, to do with computing. Research papers, then my Ph.D. dissertation, then a text book. I was getting quite good at writing lengthy material. Then the Mumbai terror attacks of 2008 came to pass. Something cracked inside, and the muses came rushing in. Looking back now, I am aware that while I had wanted to write fiction since I was in fifth grade, only now did I have something meaningful to write about, and could see myself doing emotional justice to the slippery, non-linear, entirely human elements of "The Blind Spot". Which is to say, I had lived a little. Some of the material in the book resonate with, and are informed by, my own story as an immigrant to the U.S. After all, you write what you know about. ​I live in New Jersey with my wife and son. You can see what I am up to generally when I am not writing fiction, at my Rutgers web page.