Aditi Rao
Aditi has published essays with InfochangeIndia, India Untravelled, and other online publications, and poems in the Boiler Journal, Muse India, Cha: An Asian Literary Journal, qarrtsiluni, and Four Quarters Magazine. Her story, “Face to Face: Transforming Conflict in South Asia” was featured in People Building Peace 2.0, published by the Global Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflict, and “I can bear it” was featured in Moments that Speak: Images and Stories of Connection, published by the Earth Charter Initiative. Aditi has twice been longlisted for the TFA Creative Writing in English award. She was one of the winners of the 2012 “Encountering Poetry” contest organized by Cha, and the winner of the 2011 Srinivas Rayaprol Prize for Poetry.
Louise Ardenfelt Ravnild
Louise is a Copenhagen-based translator working mainly from English into Danish. Her works include both fiction and non-fiction and range from serial killers, zookeepers’ wives, female popes and burnt-out baseball players over bakers and dieters to brain scientists and businesspeople. She holds a Master’s degree in Classical Indian Philology and hopes that it might actually prove useful some day.
Prema Revathi
Prema Revathi is a poet, journalist, theatre person, translator and activist who runs a school for children from nomadic tribal communities in a coastal village in Tamil Nadu. She writes on development and gender and is presently writing a memoir about the school she started in the aftermath of the Asian Tsunami in 2004. She also translates fiction from English to Tamil.
Nicholas Rixon
Nicholas Rixon is an Anglo-Indian writer whose fiction and essays have appeared in Catapult, The Indian Quarterly, Scroll.in, The Assam Tribune, The Statesman, and A Case of Indian Marvels: Dazzling Stories from the Country’s Finest New Writers.
Anita Roy
Anita Roy has worked in publishing in both India and the UK for over 25 years. She set up and runs the Young Zubaan imprint of Zubaan books. She has completed a children’s novel, and is working on short stories for young adults.
Saumya Roy
Saumya Roy is a journalist and social entrepreneur. She has written for Outlook, Mint, Forbes, Bloomberg News, and The Wall Street Journal website. She then set up Vandana Foundation, a non profit that supports livelihoods of the poorest of poor in urban and rural Maharashtra. She is working on a book project that chronicles the lives of rag pickers at Mumbai’s Deonar garbage mountain. It is about life on the world’s largest garbage mountain, the communities it sustains and its possible closure.
Tania De Rozario
Tania De Rozario is an artist, writer and curator who has exhibited in Singapore and abroad. She is the author of Reasons for the Rain and Tender Delirium, both set to be published in 2013. Tania is a Hedgebrook alumna, recipient of numerous local awards and is co-founder/curator of Etiquette, Singapore’s first ongoing arts showcase focused on feminist issues. To pay the bills, she also freelances as a drawing instructor, an art-writer and an adjunct lecturer at LASALLE College of the Arts.
Salma
Salma writes in Tamil. She has previously published two collections of poetry, Oru Malaiyum Innoru Malaiyum and Pachai Devathai and a novel Irandam Jamangalin Kathai. She is currently at work on a collection of short stories.
J.P. Sanakya
Sanakya’s stories have been published in such Tamil literary magazines as Kalachuvadu, Uyirmey, Kalkuthirai, Adavi, 361 Degree, Theeranathi, www.ulagathamil.com and Semmai as well as in India Today. He has published two collections of short stories, En Veettin Varaipadam (2002) and Kanavu Puththagam (2005). He received the Sundara Ramaswamy Young Writer Award in 2010 and the Katha award. A translation of his story, The Force of Gravity was included in the Oxford University Press anthology of Tamil Dalit writing. Sanakya also has diplomas in Carnatic Music and Painting and is a practitioner of Sabhyasi transcendental meditation.
Vivek Shanbhag
Vivek Shanbhag writes in Kannada. He has published five short story collections, three novels and two plays, and has edited two anthologies, one of them in English. He published and edited the literary journal Desha Kaala for seven years. His novel Ghachar Ghochar was published in English translation to international acclaim. An engineer by training, Vivek Shanbhag lives in Bangalore, India.
Aseem Shrivatsava
Aseem Shrivastava is from India. He got his doctorate in Economics from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He taught Economics at colleges and universities in India and the US for many years. Most recently, he taught Philosophy at Nordic College, Norway. He now researches and writes independently on issues emanating from globalization. He is currently working with Ashish Kothari on a book evaluating India’s embrace of globalization from an environmental angle, entitled “Unsustainable India.
Kishore Singh
Kishore Singh works as a senior editor with the financial daily Business Standard, handling features and edit the Weekend section of the paper. In the past, he has edited magazines in the leisure and lifestyle space, and worked in publishing as an editor. He writes and edits books or script documentaries in his private time and designs homes for friends as a hobby.
Mehak Siddiqui
Mehak Siddiqui is a freelance writer and blogger based in Ahmedabad, India. Her work has appeared in a number of major Indian magazines. She has a Masters in Communication from the University of Hyderabad, and is currently working on her first novel.
Siththanthan
Siththanthan is the pen name of Sabapathy Uthayanan who lives and works in Kondavil, Jaffna. He has been writing poems, short stories, and criticism since the late nineties. He has published the poetry collections Kaalathin Punnagai (Time’s Smile), Thurathum Nizhalkalin Yuham (Age of Stalking Shadows), Paravaikalukku Thisaikal Theriyaathu (Birds Don’t Know Direction), Thanatkaalam (Time of Embers), as well as the story collection Amruthaavin Puthir Vattangal (Amrutha’s Circle Riddles).
Leonora Christina Skov
Leonora Christina is a novelist based in Copenhagen. She has published the highly acclaimed novels Champagnepigen (The Good Time Girl, 2007), and Rygsvømmeren (The Backstroke Swimmer, 2003). She has also published a couple of children’s books, an introduction to queer theory, and a feminist anthology. She holds an Masters Degree in Comparative Literature and work as an outspoken debater and high profile literary critic for Danish weeklyWeekendavisen.
Rahul Soni
Rahul is one of the founders and editors of Pratilipi, a literary journal, and Pratilipi Books, an independent publishing venture. He is Chief Editor at Writer’s Side, a literary agency and manuscript assessment service. His work has appeared in Almost Island, Asymptote, Biblio, Dhauli Review, Hindi, Indian Literature, Pratilipi and Tehelka.
Honggyu Son
Honggyu Son was born in Jeongeup-si, Jeollabuk-do, Korea in 1975. He graduated from Dongguk University with a major in Korean Language and Literature. He won the Best New Writer of Jakgasegye (The World of Writers) in 2001 and has also been awarded Daesan Creative Writing Funds. His books include Saramui Shinwha (The Human Myth), Bongseobi Garasadae (As Bongseob Says…) and Gwishinui Sidae (The Age of Ghosts).