Rakesh Satyal is the author of the novel Blue Boy, which won a Lambda Literary Award and the Prose/Poetry Award from the Association for Asian American Studies and which was a finalist for a Publishing Triangle Award. Satyal received a 2010 Fellowship in Fiction from the New York Foundation for the Arts and has twice been a Fellow at the Norman Mailer Writers' Colony. His second novel, No One Can Pronounce My Name, published by Picador USA in 2017.