Vajra Chandrasekera is from Colombo, Sri Lanka and his debut novel The Saint of Bright Doors (Tor, 2023) is out now. He has also published over fifty short stories in magazines and anthologies including Analog, Black Static, and Clarkesworld, among others, and his short fiction has been nominated for the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award. He blogs at vajra.me and is @_vajra on Twitter.