Rabindranath Maharaj, award-winning author of The Amazing Absorbing Boy, was born and raised in Trinidad. Through his writing, Maharaj helps readers understand the immigrant experience. In the early 1990s he immigrated to Canada and completed a second M.A. at the University of New Brunswick in 1993. He taught high school in Ontario for a number of years before co-founding the literary magazine LICHEN in 1999. In addition to novels and collections of short stories, Maharaj has written screenplays as well as reviews and articles for major American and Canadian newspapers and has published in various literary journals and anthologies. Homer in Flight was a finalist for the Chapters/Books in Canada First Novel Award and A Perfect Pledge was a Globe and Mail Best Book. Other titles include The Interloper, The Writer and His Wife, The Lagahoo”s Apprentice, The Book of Ifs and Buts, and The Amazing Absorbing Boy, winner of the 2010 Trillium Book Award and the 2011 Toronto Book Award. Maharaj currently lives in Ajax, Ontario.
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