I was born in Gansu, China — home of the Yellow River’s genesis. My family emigrated to Canada, then subsequently the United States, and like any first-generation immigrant, I struggled with identity but with time, learned to embrace a kind of rootless adaptability.

Many of my poems speak to these themes of displacement, memory and migration.

After growing up in suburban America, I spent four blissful years of my education reading some of the most insightful and beautiful texts in human history. I emerged from my Philosophy and Economics education at Columbia with some basic but closely held beliefs -- that there is no fixed notion of the self, no objective "meaning" to the fundamental mysteries of the universe, but how we deal with these two realities determines a great part of our lived experience.

I like to create and enable creation. I wrote a book, "Myth of the Entrepreneur" which was published by Harper Collins in 2017.

I have grown to love India, which I now consider my home.

You can reach me at cg2793@columbia.edu or in one of south Bangalore’s outdoor cafes.