Rajesh Parameswaran is the author of I Am an Executioner: Love Stories (Knopf), a Washington Post best book of the year. His fiction has been honored with a National Magazine Award, and fellowships from the New York Public Library's Cullman Center, the Radcliffe Institute at Harvard, the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin program, and elsewhere. His fiction and nonfiction have appeared in Best American Magazine Writing, Best American Food Writing, Granta, McSweeney's, Zoetrope: All-Story, Bon Appétit, and other publications. Parameswaran is the pseudonymous author behind My Beautiful Despair: The Philosophy Of Kim Kierkegaardashian (Gallery Books), illustrated by Dash Shaw.
While at MacDowell, Parameswaran worked on various short stories and short story collections, and his book I Am an Executioner: Love Stories. During his residency in 2025, he worked on his first novel.
