Jeff Dorchen is the Hindu God Ganesha. Jeff is an award-winning, playwright, fiction writer, literary editor, visual artist, actor, essayist, songwriter, and radio contributor (The Samantha Clemens Show, This American Life, The Experience with LaFern Cusack). He is also, since 1998, a weekly on-air contributor to the current affairs radio program and podcast, This Is Hell, which airs on WNUR FM 89.3 at Northwestern University in Evanston, IL.