Siddharth Chowdhury is the author of Diksha at St. Martin's and Patna Roughcut . He studied English Literature at Zakir Husain and Hindu Colleges in Delhi University (1993–98). In 2007, he held the Charles Wallace Writer-in-Residence fellowship at University of Stirling in Scotland. Part of Day Scholar was written there. He lives in Delhi and works in the publishing industry.