Desh Balasubramaniam was born in Sri Lanka and raised in both the war torn Northern & Eastern provinces. At the age of thirteen, he fled to New Zealand with his family on humanitarian asylum. He has spent considerable lengths of time travelling on shoestring budgets through a number of countries often travelling by hitchhiking and working various jobs. He is the founding director of Ondru–rising movement of Arts & Literature. His work has appeared in Overland, Going Down Swinging, the Lumière Reader, Mascara Literary Review, Blackmail Press, QLRS and various other publications. [Read]