Born in Delhi, India, Bipin Aurora came to the United States when he was nine. He has worked at numerous part-time jobs – cashier, stock boy, waiter, salesman – and then, more “professionally,” as an economist, an energy analyst, and a systems analyst. His fiction has appeared in Glimmer Train, Michigan Quarterly Review, Southwest Review, Nimrod International Journal, Witness, The Chattahoochee Review, Western Humanities Review, New Orleans Review, Confrontation, Grain, and other literary publications. Bipin currently makes his home in Oakland.