Siddharth was born in India in the garden city, Bangalore.  Siddharth is the author of two award-winning volumes of poetry (both runners-up at the San Diego Published Book Awards 2002,2003). His work has appeared in A Generation Defining Itself, Golden Thoughts, America at the Millennium and Sulekha. He has been interviewed in a number of periodicals and on Book Crazy Radio and his work has been reviewed in newspapers/magazines like the Deccan Herald, Indian Express and Suite101. An excerpt from Festival of Kites was published in Writer’s Monthly.