Rabindranath Maharaj (born 1955) is a Trinidadian-Canadian novelist, short story writer, and a founding editor of the Canadian literary journal Lichen.
in English and History, and Diploma of Education from the University of the West Indies at Saint Augustine, he worked as a teacher and, briefly, as a columnist for the Trinidad Guardian.
In 1994 he moved to the town of Ajax, Ontario, where he taught high school[3] for a number of years.
In 1998, Maharaj, along with three other Durham Region writers – Ruth E. Walker, Gwynn Scheltema, and Lucy Brennan – founded and co-edited Lichen Literary Journal, which was launched in May 1999.
[4] His newest novel, Fatboy Fall Down, published in 2019 was the winner of the 2019 Foreword Indies Silver Medal for Literary Fiction [5] He continues to reside in Ajax, Ontario.