Kiran Bhat

About Kiran Bhat

Kiran Bhat is an Indian-American author, traveller, and polyglot. He is known as the author of we of the forsaken world..., but has published books in five different languages, and has had his writing published in journals, such as The Caravan, Outlook India, Sahitya Akademi, The Kenyon Review, Prairie Schooner, The Brooklyn Rail, The Colorado Review, 3:AM Magazine, Cordite Poetry Review, SOFTBLOW, and many other places. He has been to 160 countries, lived in 25 cities, and speaks 12 languages, but currently lives in Mumbai, where he is the co-chair of the Environmental Sustainability Subcommittee of the Global Indian Council. He has lived all over the world: Jonesboro, Mysore, New York, Madrid, Lisboa, Sao Paulo, Cuzco, Mombasa, Tokyo, Istanbul, Yogyakarta, Shanghai, Moscow, Mumbai, Paris, Cairo, and Melbourne. If you ask him to pick one to live in for the rest of his life, he says it would probably be Bombay at this point.