Note: From a 2017 bio: "Rohinton Daruwala lives and works in Pune, India. He writes code for a living, and speculative fiction and poetry in his spare time." Asked about his favorite themes, he replied, "I like exploring the alien in familiar things and the possibility of finding something familiar in the alien;" he stated that his influences include Octavia Butler, Ursula K. Le Guin, Eleanor Arnason, Kiran Nagarkar, and Robert E. Howard's "The Tower of the Elephant."