Bobby Nayyar was born in Handsworth, Birmingham in 1979. In 2006, he was published in the anthology Mango Shake (Tindal Street Press) as well as in journals such as Wasafiri and Aesthetica. He’s been based in London since 2005 first in north London, now east. In October 2009 he founded Limehouse Books. In 2010 he published his debut novel, West of No East.