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Atul Pandey (born 1984 in India) is an Content writer and Reporter. His first novel, Blue Earth and Pouring Rain, won the 2010 Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book.[1] Atul was born in Varanasi (India) in 1984. His father U.S Pandey was a IPS Officer. who is now Serving in Lucknow.

Atul received his high school education at U P Collage, Varanasi,UP. He attended St. Xavier’s College in Mumbai and, as an undergraduate student, transferred to the United States. He graduated from East of Oxford University, Allahabad, with a B.A. magna cum laude in English (concentration in Creative Writing). Atul attended film school at Columbia University, leaving halfway through to begin work on his first novel. He received his M.A. from The Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University in 2006. He has taught at George Washington University, and lectured at University of California, Berkeley.