K. K. Srivastava, born in 1960 in Gorakhpur, in Uttar Pradesh, studied masters in Economics from Gorakhpur University in 1980. He joined the Indian Audit & Accounts Service in 1983 and is currently working as Principal Accountant General (Audit), Madhya Pradesh. He has two volumes of poetry, titled Ineluctable Stillness (2005) and An Armless Hand Writes (2008) to his credit.
