Rakesh Satyal

Rakesh Satyal was born and raised in Cincinnati, Ohio. His parents, Vinay and Lalita Satyal, emigrated to the United States from India. He has a fraternal twin brother, Vikas. His older brother is stand-up comedian Rajiv Satyal.[2] Satyal attended Fairfield Senior High School. He attended Princeton University, where he majored in Comparative Literature with an emphasis on French, Spanish, and Italian, and earned a certificate in the school's prestigious creative writing program. He was a member of the a cappella group the Princeton Nassoons.[3] His freshman year, he created the celebration that occurs each semester on Dean's Date, where students cheer on their classmates to turn in their written work on time.

From left to right: Xiaolu Guo, Robie Harris, Satyal and Lynne Tillman speaking on the effect of government surveillance on author self-censorship, with other authors at the 2014 Brooklyn Book Festival

With the exception of a few years in the world of branding, Satyal has worked in book publishing since 2001, when he was an intern at Random House. He worked at what was formerly known as the Doubleday Broadway Publishing Group, then HarperCollins, then Atria Books, a division of Simon & Schuster. He is currently an Executive Editor at HarperOne, a division of HarperCollins. Over the course of his career, he has worked with such authors as Tori Amos, Clive Barker, Common, Daniel Lavery, Janet Mock, Terry Castle, Paulo Coelho, Joey Graceffa, Vestal McIntyre, Armistead Maupin, Michael Arceneaux, Chasten Buttigieg, Anuradha Roy, Rahul Mehta, Ann Powers, and Paul Rudnick.

Blue Boy was published in 2009. Satyal's second novel, No One Can Pronounce My Name, was published in May 2017 by Picador USA. His work has also appeared in the anthologies The Man I Might Become, Fresh Men 2, The Letter Q, and Fifty Writers on Fifty Shades of Grey. Satyal sometimes performs in New York City as a singer. His cabaret act has been mentioned in The New Yorker, the New York Observer, and Page Six. He also garnered attention for his acceptance speech at the Lambda Literary Awards gala, which he sang to the tune of Lady Gaga's "Bad Romance".[1]

His novel 'Blue Boy' is being turned into a film by the actor, comedian, and writer Nik Dodani. His novel No One Can Pronounce My Name is being made into a film by Christine Vachon of Killer Films.

Satyal lives in New York City with his husband, John Maas, a literary agent. His brother is comedian Rajiv Satyal. He has a fraternal twin, Vikas Satyal.

• Blue Boy (2009)
• No One Can Pronounce My Name (novel) (2017)

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