Bitan Marik

I come from a middle-class background in India, where careers in engineering, medicine, and business dominate. Despite showing literary potential in middle school, I never considered writing as a career. How could I? At the time, young poets in College Street, Kolkata were on the streets in rags attempting to sell collections. I thought creatives had a collective death wish.
My parents eventually allowed me to leave prep school, and I began pursuing writing full-time.
Despite having written over twenty short stories and numerous poems, I had struggled to compile these into a cohesive volume for publication till I came to study on the Prose Fiction course at UEA. Currently querying my debut novel.