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Rajesh Parameswaran is the author of the short story collection I Am an Executioner: Love Stories, which The Washington Post praised as “the advent of a genuinely distinctive voice in American fiction.” The novel contains multiple short stories that capture love in a new way. His novel was translated into four languages.
Parameswaran was born in Chennai, India, but moved to the United States when he was an infant. His family spent time in Michigan before moving to Houston, where he spent most of his childhood. Parameswaran studied English at Yale and went on to graduate from Yale Law School. Although he never practiced law he worked as a law clerk for a federal judge, while also maintaining a freelance and fiction writing career. Throughout his writing career he has served as Picador Guest Professor for American Literature at the University of Leipzig, and taught in the Creative Writing Program at New York University. He has helped transformative nonprofits, businesses, and advocates tell meaningful stories. Parameswaran has written speeches, op-eds, reports, and advised organizations on narrative strategy; the writings he has done on behalf of clients have appeared in national publications.
