Originally from Kanpur, India, Laxmi-Narayan Gupta is a professor in the Department of Math and Statistics at the Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, NY. He had his early education in Kanpur with a M.Sc in Mathematics and after spending a year at IIT, Kanpur as a research scholar, he came to State University of NY at Buffalo where he finished his Ph. D. in 1972. He taught in a small college in Buffalo before joining RIT in 1980.
He has been writing Hindi poetry for several years. Some of his poems have been published in "Vishwa", "Vishwa-Vivek", and "Bhasha Setu." The former two are quarterly magazines published from Us and the latter is published from India. He has done a Hindi verse translation of Gita published in 1998 by the Reliance Press of New Delhi. An associate editor of Vishwa, Professor Gupta has also done a Hindi verse translation of "Ishopanishad," published on Hindinest.com