Haam Seong Ho
Ham Seongho was born in Sokcho, South Korea, in 1963. He earned his undergraduate degree in architecture from Kangwon National University. As a poet, he debuted in the journal Literature and Society (문학과 사회) in 1990. His poetry anthologies since then include Holy Taj Mahal (聖 타즈마할), 5.67 Billion Years of Solitude (56억7천만년의 고독), and The Very Beautiful Disease (너무 아름다운 병). He has also published a prose collection, Record of Nothingness (허무의 기록), and is recognized as a prominent critic of architecture and graphic novels. The Whang Mi-Sook Dance Troupe adapted his poetry in a 2002 performance, and he has presented art exhibitions including the “Seoul Time Capsule Exhibition” (2003). Mr. Ham has written, “I did not attach myself to just writing poems. I connected architecture and poetry, dancing and poetry, and philosophy and poetry. Poetry, architecture, art and others are nothing but tools to complete my life.”
Emily Holleman
Emily Holleman is a Brooklyn-based writer. She is currently working on a quartet of historical novels that reimagines the saga of Cleopatra from the perspective of her younger sister, Arsinoe. The first of these, Cleopatra’s Shadows, was published by Little, Brown in October 2015.
Colie Hoffman
Colie is an American poet living in New York’s Hudson Valley. An MFA graduate of Hunter College-CUNY and a 2010 resident of Sangam House, her poems have appeared in Blood Orange Review, Obsidian: Literature in the African Diaspora, and The Furnace Review. She is working on her first book.
Lakshmi Holmström
Lakshmi Holmström has translated short stories, novels and poetry by major contemporary writers in Tamil. She received the Crossword Award in 2000, the Iyal Award from the Tamil Literary Garden 2008, and shared the Crossword-Hutch Award in 2007. Her most recent translations are Wild Girls, Wicked Words (four Tamil women poets) and In a Time of Burning (the Sri Lankan poet Cheran), which won an English PEN award.
Tendai Huchu
Tendai Huchu is the author of The Hairdresser of Harare which has been translated into several languages. His short fiction has appeared in various literary magazines and anthologies. In 2013 he was awarded a Hawthorden Fellowship and a Sacatar Fellowship in Bahia, Brazil. He is currently working on his next novel, The Maestro, The Magistrate, & The Mathematician.
Lars Husman
Lars Husman is a Danish writer. He has written one novel, the dark comedy ‘Mit venskab med Jesus Kristus’ (‘My friendship with Jesus Christ’). It was published in Denmark in 2008 and has since been sold to Sweden, Norway, Lithuania, The Netherlands, France, Italy, India and The UK.
Julie Iromuanya
Julie Iromuanya is the author of Mr. and Mrs. Doctor (Coffee House Press), a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award, the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction, the Etisalat Prize for Literature, and the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize for Debut Fiction. Her scholarly-critical work is forthcoming in Meridians, Callaloo, and Afropolitan Literature as World Literature. She is an assistant professor in the creative writing MFA program at the University of Arizona.
Abha Iyengar
Iyengar is an internationally published writer and poet. Her work has Abha appeared in Mannequin Envy, Insolent Rudder, Dead Drunk Dublin, Citizen 32, Arabesques Review and others. She is a Kota Press Poetry Anthology contest winner. Her story, ‘The High Stool’ was nominated for the Story South Million Writers Award. She is a member of The Poetry Society of India and ‘Riyaz’ Writer’s Group at The British Council. Her flash fiction has won contests at Tattoo Highway and at Door Knobs and Body Paint. Abha is fiction editor with Leadstart Publishing, Mumbai. She lives in New Delhi, India and writes primarily in English, though some of her poetry is also written in her mother tongue, Hindi.
Saskya Jain
Saskya Jain’s first novel, Fire Under Ash, was published with Random House India in 2014 and shortlisted for the Shakti Bhatt First Book Prize. Her short stories and essays have appeared in numerous journals and magazines. She holds an MFA in Fiction from Boston University, where she received the Florence Engel Randall Award and the Robert Pinsky Global Fellowship. She lives in New Delhi and Berlin, and is currently working on her second novel.
Karen Jennings
Karen Jennings was born in Cape Town in 1982. She holds Masters degrees in both English Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Cape Town. In 2010 her short story ‘From Dark’ won the Commonwealth Short Story Competition for the African region. In 2009 ‘Mia and the Shark’ won the English section of the MML short story competition and is now studied in schools. In 2012 Karen began a PhD in Creative Writing at UKZN under the supervision of Kobus Moolman. 2012 was also the year in which her debut novel, Finding Soutbek, was published by Holland Park Press (UK).
Aashna Jamal
Aashna Jamal is a writer from Kashmir. Her stories appear in Fountain Ink, Muse India, Caravan, Inverse Journal, the Diplomat, and Bebaak Jigar- Of Dry Tongues and Hearts, a print anthology of Indian fiction. She is currently an economic advisor to the government in Somalia.
Lee Jihong
Lee Jihong is a writer of plays and operas. She also works as a play educator and a play therapist. Her main works include the plays Crimson Skirt, There is No Future and A Flower Thrown into Wind, and the operas Papa Garden, and The Daejeon Blues.
Dinesh Kafle
Dinesh Kafle is a Nepali translator based in New Delhi. He has translated Benyamin’s novel Goat Days into Nepali (FinePrint, Kathmandu) and Nayan Raj Pandey’s Nepali novella Ulaar into English (forthcoming: FinePrint, Kathmandu). He is currently working on translating Pandey’s novel Loo into English. He studied English literature at Jawaharlal Nehru University.
Mario Kaiser
Mario Kaiser is a writer of narrative nonfiction. Taking on issues of social transformation and human rights, his stories are based on long-term immersion in environments that are difficult to access, illustrating how government policies and social change affect people’s lives. A former reporter and editor for Die Zeit and Der Spiegel, he is a co-author of The Beslan File, Tsunami: Story of a Global Quake, Ghost Towns of the American West, and Highwaymen: The Best Stories by Spiegel Reporters. His reporting has been awarded the Henri Nannen Prize, the Lorenzo Natali Prize, the German Reporter Prize, and the Kurt Schork Award in International Journalism. He lives in New York City.
Jayasree Kalathil
Jayasree is a bilingual writer and award-winning translator of Malayalam literature. She is the author of the children’s book The Sackclothman, which has been translated into Malayalam, Telugu and Hindi. Her recent work includes translations of Palestinian poetry into Malayalam as part of the global effort #readpalestine.
Ram Ganesh Kamatham
Ram has created work for stage, film, radio, comics and video games. In 2007, he attended the Royal Court Theatre’s International Residency for Emerging Playwrights on a Charles Wallace Award. The same year, he was also awarded a SARAI-CSDS Independent Research Fellowship for the development of his play Creeper. His play Square Root of Minus One was published by Samuel French and an extract of his play “Dancing on Glass” was included in Multiple City — Writings on Bangalore (Penguin India, 2009)Ram is the Executive Editor of PT Notes, the Prithvi Theatre’s monthly newsletter.
Raghu Karnad
Raghu Karnad is a journalist and editor who lives between Delhi and Bangalore. He was a reporter for the newsweekly Outlook and then Tehelka, where his articles received awards from the European Commission, the Internews Agency and the Press Institute of India. He has been editor of Time Out magazine in Delhi, and has written for the BBC, n+1, GQ, The Hindu, Mint, Business Standard and The Caravan, among other publications.
Irawati Karnik
Irawati is a writer, director and actor from Mumbai, India. Her translations have been published by Oxford University Press. She was awarded the Ustad Bismillah Khan Yuva Puraskar in 2008 by the Sangeet Natak Academy. She has written 8 plays so far and some short stories, too.