Atharva Rajesh Joshi is from Pune. He likes to read thrillers, especially murder mysteries. His love for crime fiction rose after reading stories of great writers like Agatha Christie and Arthur Conan Doyle. After reading many of such stories he had an idea of writing about a detective who apart from solving crimes shows more about his personal life too. So he started writing about this detective called as Leigh Jenkins.

Apart from reading books he likes to read and write poems. From the day he started writing poems till now he has a collection of one hundred and seventeen poems.

Atharva uses the term ‘ARjun’ as his pen name. The word has a Sanskrit origin and it means brightness and clarity. He believes that his writing is bright and clear hence uses the name `ARjun`