Rattawut Lapcharoensap

Rattawut Lapcharoensap was born in Chicago in 1979 and raised in Bangkok. He was educated at Triamudomsuksa Pattanakarn, Cornell University and the University of Michigan, where he received an MFA in Creative Writing. He currently lives in Brookly, New York. Sightseeing (2005) is his first book.

In 2007 he was named as one of Granta's Best Young American Novelists.