Michael Fehr
Michael grew up in Muri, near Bern. He studied at the Swiss Institute for Literature and the Bern Arts College, where he gained his Master degree in Contemporary Arts Practice. In 2013 he published his first work of fiction called Kurz vor der Erlösung (On the Verge of Salvation), 2015 followed his second work Simeliberg. Michael is also a storyteller and works together with the guitarist Manuel Troller to compose music to his lyrics, which then are performed on concert stages. Fehr supports Babelsprech and Treibhaus, two initiatives to promote young German literature.
Peter H. Fogtdal
Peter H. Fogtdal was born in Copenhagen, Denmark and has written 12 novels in Danish. His work has been translated into French, Portuguese, and English. His off-beat historical novel, The Tsar’s Dwarf was published in the US in 2008 to critical acclaim. He won Le Prix Litteraire de la Francophonie for Le Front Chantilly in 2005. Peter teaches Literature and writing classes at Portland State University in Oregon, USa and shares his time between Portland and Copenhagen. The novel he’ll be writing at Sangam House takes place in India and is inspired by real events he has had with gurus in that country.
Joshua Furst
Joshua Furst is the author of the novel The Sabotage Cafe and the story collection Short People. His work has been published in a variety of journals and periodicals, including among others, the Chicago Tribune, Conjunctions and PEN America. He teaches at The Pratt Institute.
Denise ‘Kumani’ Gantt
Kumani’s plays and performance pieces include meditations/from the ash, winner of the Artscape 1997 Best Play Contest and voted Best New Play by the Baltimore Alternative; Three Stories to the Ground, written with Gabriel Shanks and winner of the Theatre Project Outstanding Vision In Theatre Award; anatomy/lessons selected as part of Penumbra Theater’s Cornerstone Project; Communion written with actress Vanessa Thomas for Washington, DC’s Horizons Theater, Testament, a play inspired by Antigone performed by the Village of Arts and Humanities in 2006; and the work-in-progress, The Gift, which received a staged reading as part of ACT’s Central Theatre Lab in June 2011. In 2003, her collection of poetry, conjuring the dead, was awarded the Maryland Emerging Writers Award by poet, Afaa Michael Weaver. She holds a MFA in Theatre Performance from Towson University and lives in Seattle.
Krupa Ge
Krupa is a writer and journalist from Madras. She is the founder/editor of the literary magazine The Madras Mag (www.madrasmag.in). She was shortlisted for a Toto Prize in Creative Writing in 2016. Her short fiction has appeared in Papercuts, Blink Ink, Scroll, Sahita Akademi’s Indian Literature, etc. Her reportage and cultural writings have appeared in publications such as The Hindu, The New Indian Express, Firstpost, etc.
Tommaso Giartosio
Tommaso Giartosio has put out eight cross-genre books– variously mingling memoir, essay, narrative, and poetry. He worked for more than twenty years as a high school teacher, and as a radio host for Italy’s NPR. He writes in Italian and is fluent in English.
Mindy Gill
Mindy Gill’s poems have appeared in Australian Poetry Journal, Hecate, Mascara Literary Review, Island Magazine, Award Winning Australian Writing, and elsewhere. She has won the Tom Collins Poetry Prize, a Wheeler Centre Hot Desk Fellowship, and the Queensland Premier’s Young Writers and Publishers Award. Her manuscript, August Burns the Sky, was shortlisted for the Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize. She is Peril Magazine’s Editor-in-Chief.
Justin Go
Justin’s first novel, The Steady Running of the Hour, was published in 2014 by Simon & Schuster and has been translated into twenty languages. Born in Los Angeles, he was educated at the University of California, Berkeley and University College London. At present he is at work on his second novel.
Bedartha Goswami
Bedartha was born and brought up in Guwahati, Assam and had been fond of writing since childhood. A few published articles in the regional dailies . . . “have given me the illusion that I can write. I am exploring that part of me now; if there is a writer in me I want to use it to voice the life teeming in northeast India.”
Frances Greenslade
Frances’ first book, A Pilgrim in Ireland: A Quest for Home, was published by Penguin in 2002. Her second book, By the Secret Ladder: A Mother’s Initiation (Penguin, 2007), is a memoir about the soul-rearranging first year of motherhood. Shelter, a novel, was published by Random House in August 2011.
Stephanie Elizondo Griest
Stephanie Elizondo Griest is the author of the travel memoir Around the Bloc: My Life in Moscow, Beijing, and Havana; Mexican Enough: My Life Between the Borderlines and the guidebook 100 Places Every Woman Should Go. She has won a Margolis Award for Social Justice Reporting and teaches creative nonfiction writing at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Visit her website at MexicanEnough.com.
Teji Grover
Teji Grover is a Hindi poet, fiction writer, translator and painter. She has published several collections of poetry, a novel, a collection of short stories and a collection of essays.
Trisha Gupta
Trisha Gupta is an independent writer and critic who spent many years studying cultural anthropology. Her writing on cinema, literature, art and the city appears regularly in Caravan, Open, Sunday Guardian, Indian Express, Business Standard and Firstpost.com. She is Associate Editor of the literary magazine Pratilipi. Her published writing can be read on her blog, Chhotahazri . She has lived in Delhi for many years and still thinks it inexhaustably interesting.
Uttaran Das Gupta
Uttaran Das Gupta was born in Calcutta, India, and read English at Jadavpur University. His poems and articles have appeared or are forthcoming in Reading Hour, Magnapoets, Raedleaf, Fulcrum, Open Road Review, The Sunflower Collective and Indian Literature, and have been translated into Bengali and Telugu. Also an amateur actor, he has written the award-nominated play, Murder and Create. He is a journalist with Business Standard, New Delhi.
Neal Hall
Neal Hall, M.D. is an award winning internationally acclaimed poet and author of four volumes of works: Nigger For Life, Winter’s A’ Coming Still, the forthcoming Where Do I Sit, and Appalling Silence, with selections of his work translated into Telugu and Urdu.
Giles Hazelgrove
Giles Hazelgrove is British and fifty. He lives in London and La Creuse, France. After a career in design and property renovation, he wrote his first novel, Confluence, as part of the City University MA in Creative Writing. He was awarded a distinction, and the novel was shortlisted for the Peters Fraser and Dunlop CityNovel prize.
Lucas Hirsch
Lucas Hirsch (b. 1975) is the author of four collections of poetry. Hirsch published his poems in Dutch, Belgian and American magazines and performed on stages in the Netherlands, Belgium and the USA. His poetry has been translated into English, Polish, Finnish and German. Hirsch currently is working on his debut novel and a fifth book of poetry.
Ida Hattemer-Higgins
Ida was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, and grew up in Boston, Massachusetts. She studied German and Chinese literature in New York City, after which she left the U.S. in 2001. In the years since, she has lived in Japan, India, and Sweden, and for the past seven years as a student of literature and translator in Berlin, Germany. Her first novel, The History of History, will appear in January 2011, with the publishing houses Alfred A. Knopf, Faber & Faber, and Flammarion.