RABINDRANATH MAHARAJ is the author of three novels: A Perfect Pledge (published simultaneously in 2005 by Knopf Canada and in the US by Farrar, Straus and Giroux), which was a finalist for the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize and the Commonwealth Writers' Prize; The Lagahoo's Apprentice (Knopf Canada, 2000) which was a Globe and Mail and a Toronto Star notable book of the year; and Homer in Flight (Goose Lane Editions, 1997) which was a finalist for the Chapters/Books in Canada First Novel Award; and three collections of short stories: The Book of Ifs and Buts (Vintage Canada, 2002), The Writer and His Wife (Peepal Tree Press, UK, 1996), and The Interloper (Goose Lane Editions, 1995) which was nominated for a Commonwealth Writers' Prize (Canada and Caribbean Region) for Best First Book. Born and raised in Trinidad, he immigrated to Canada in the early 1990s and now lives in Ajax, Ontario.