Line-Maria Lång
Line-Maria Lång is half Swedish-half Danish and lives in Copenhagen. Her debut story collection Rat King appeared in 2009 from the distinguished Danish publishing house, Rosinante. English translations from her debut collection have appeared in the American literary journals, The Southern Review, The Literary Review, Absinthe: New European Writing and Serving House Journal. In 2011 Line-Maria Lång was the muse of the American anthology, The Girl with Red Hair. Her first novel Artichoke Heart will be published in 2014.
Mira Beckstrøm Laurantzon
Mira B. Laurantzon grew up between the ocean and the forest at a peninsula in the Oslo fjord of Norway. She graduated with a masters in South Asian Studies from University of Oslo, before moving to the mountains to study at the Writers Academy. She has now returned to the peninsula from which she came and in a little house in the oak forest she is continuously exploring nature, sustainability and the relation between micro-macro, through various methods of text, body work and stories of food.
Eugene Lee
Eugene has an MFA in Playwriting from the Korean National University for the Arts and her plays have been staged in Seoul and other parts of Korea. She has several play scripts to her credit, most recently, Toilet Goddess. Eugene has also won awards for her music compositions.
Ulla Lenze
Ulla Lenze, born in Mönchengladbach in 1973, studied music and philosophy in Cologne. In 2003 her debut novel Schwester und Bruder (Sister and Brother) was published and awarded the Ernst-Willner-Prize at the Klagenfurt Bachmann competition, the Jürgen Ponto Prize for the best debut novel and the Rolf-Dieter-Brinkmann-Scholarship of Cologne. Her second novel Archanu was released by Ammann Verlag in 2008. In 2010 she was writer-in-residence for nine months at the Goethe Institut Mumbai. Today she lives as a freelance author in Berlin. Her new novel Der kleine Rest des Todes (What little remains of Death) was highly acclaimed and selected on the SWR Bestenliste in May 2012.
Madhulika Liddle
Madhulika Liddle is an Indian who worked in hospitality, advertising and instructional design before deciding to devote all her energies to writing in English. Over the years, several of her short stories have been published in anthologies or have won awards. Her story A Morning Swim, about an eight-year old orphan who dives into the Yamuna to collect coins in order to make ends meet, won the Commonwealth Broadcasting Association’s Short Story Competition in 2003. Madhulika lives in New Delhi, India, and spends her spare time reading (mainly historical detective fiction), watching old cinema, and — whenever possible — traveling.
Douna Loup
Douna’s first book, Mopaya, was based on interviews with Gabriel Nganga Nseka an immigrant from Congo. In September 2010, Douna published her first novel, L’embrasure (Mercure de France), and it received several literary prizes including the Prix Schiller Découverte, Prix Thyde Monnier de la SGDL, Prix Michel-Dentan, Prix René Fallet et Prix Léopold Léonard Senghor.
Henriette Lund
Henriette Lund lives and works in Copenhagen, Denmark. She has published a collection of poems and has another one ready for release. She is currently working on a novel. She has a master’s degree in language and history from Roskilde University, Denmark.
Carlos Eduardo de Magalhaes
Carlos was born in the city of Sao Paulo. He is author of eight books, among them: Cama de pregos (Bed of nails, Grua, stories, 2009) Pitanga (Grua, novel, 2008), Dora (Atelie Editorial, novel, 2005), O primeiro inimigo (The first enemy, Atelie Editorial, novel, 2005) and Os jacares (The alligators, Cosac&Naify, novel, 2001), Mera Fotografia (Just a picture, Rocco, novel, 1998). He is also the co-writer of the screenplay of the film “Corpos Celestes”, and author of short stories and articles published in anthologies and magazines. Since 2007, Magalhaes is the editor of a new Brazilian publishing called Grua (www.grualivros.com.br). He lives with his wife and two daughters in Sao Paulo.
Amrita Mahale
Amrita Mahale was trained as an aerospace engineer at IIT Bombay and Stanford University. She spent a decade working in strategy and operations roles in technology startups before switching, in what she hopes is the last of her zigzags, to writing fiction. Her writing has appeared in Brown Paper Bag and Himal Southasian. She is currently working on her first novel, Common Ground.
Maria Carolina Maia
Maria Carolina Maia was born in 1979, in São Paulo, the biggest city of Brazil, where she lives today. She works daily as a journalist, writing and editing texts to VEJA magazine’s website (www.veja.com), and as a writer in her free time. Joining a residence is a great way, for her, to know other writers and experiences and to work harder in a new book. Her first book, her only by now, is Ciranda de Nós. The book won the Nascente prize, which belongs to USP (University of São Paulo), and was nominated to Prêmio São Paulo de Literatura, one of the most important in Brazil.
Ishita Basu Mallik
Ishita writes and draws. She received the TFA Award for Creative Writing in 2011. Some of her texts have appeared in Pyrta, Global Comment, Asian Cha, Stone Telling, DecomP and the Northeast Review. A themed first collection of poems is working on her.
Francesca Marciano
Francesca is the author of three novels published in the US by Knopf, all of which were written in English. She has also written several film scripts, mostly for the Italian cinema. She uses both languages, Italian and English, in her writing, although English is the language she uses when writing fiction.
Sharanya Manivannan
Sharanya Manivannan was born in India in 1985 and grew up elsewhere. As a spoken word artist, she has performed extensively since 2001, at venues including an abandoned pier, a cemetery, and the 11th century Borobudur Temple. Her first full-length book of poems, published October 2008, is Witchcraft. She is working on a novel, Constellation of Scars.
Majid Maqbool
Majid Maqbool is a young writer, journalist and editor based in Kashmir. Besides Kashmir based publications, his writings have appeared in international publications including Aljazeera English, Warscapes magazine, Dispatches International, The Platform, as well as several Indian and Pakistani publications including OPEN Magazine, Hard News magazine, Kindle magazine, Dawn and Newsline magazine. Majid is at work on his first book that puts together his published and unpublished stories, essays and creative nonfiction writings on Kashmir.
Manimala Mathialagan
Manimala writes in Tamil. She has received various local and international awards for her work. Her books Theathannee and Azhiperukku, were shortlisted for the 2022 and 2024 Singapore Literature Prize Awards, respectively. The ‘Ananda Bhavan Mu.Ku.Ramachandra Book Prize for 2022’ was awarded to her short story collection, ‘Ival’. She also writes for children and young adults.
Tashan Mehta
Tashan Mehta completed her MPhil in Literature from the University of Cambridge before returning to Mumbai to work as a freelance writer. Her short stories have appeared in magazines such as Out of Print and Notes. She has just finished her first novel, In Between, and is currently working on her second.
Joan Michelson
Joan won first prize in the Bristol Poetry Competition, UK, first prize in the Torriano Competition UK, and she was awarded the Hamish Canham Prize from the Poetry Society of England. Her writing has been selected for both British Council and Arts Council anthologies of New Writing. Her poems have been published in a variety of literary magazine. She has published a full collection, Toward the Heliopause, and a chapbook, Bloomvale Home. Originally from New England, she lives England.
Rohini Mohan
Rohini Mohan is a journalist who has written on human rights, politics and development for Tehelka, The Caravan, Outlook, The Hindu, and The New York Times. She has won prestigious recognition for her work, including the Charles Wallace Fellowship 2013, London; the ICRC Humanitarian Reporting Award 2012, New Delhi; the Sanskriti-Prabha Dutt Fellowship 2012, New Delhi; and the South Asian Journalists’ Association award 2011, New York. She has an MA in Political Journalism from Columbia University, New York. Mohan’s first book is a non-fiction narrative about three people in postwar Sri Lanka, published by Verso UK. She is based in Bangalore.