K Srilata
A poet, fiction writer, translator and academic, Srilata is an Associate Professor (English) at IIT Madras. Based in India, Srilata writes in English and translates from Tamil. She teaches courses in Creative writing and Literature, Her debut novel Table for Four was long listed recently for the Man Asian literary prize and is to be published by Penguin India. Her books include The Rapids of a Great River: The Penguin Book of Tamil Poetry (Penguin/Viking, 2009), an anthology of poems Seablue Child (Brown Critique), The Other Half of the Coconut: Women Writing Self-Respect History (Zubaan) and Short Fiction from South India (OUP).
N Sukumaran
Sukumaran has been the Executive Editor of the Tamil magazine Kungumam, and Chief News Editor of Surya TV, a Malayalam satellite channel, and Chief Editor of Pulari Prasitheekaranam a Malayalam publishing house..
Park Ju Taek
Mr. Park has published several collections of poems, Movement Architecture of Dreams, What a Painful Rest the Wandering Is, Under the Star of the Desert and The Pupil of Time. His critical essays include Dream of Recovering Paradise , The Restoration of National Emotion, Reflection and Self-examination and The Soul of the Red Hour. (Please note that these are not formal English titles as his books are yet to be translated into English). Mr. Park currently teaches Korean Literature at the Kyung Hee University. He has received several awards including the Sowol Poetry Award for his poem The Pupil of Time.
Mikaela Taivassalo
Mikaela writes mainly prose, but also drama. She has published two novels and a collection of short stories, and has been awarded the Runeberg Prize, a national literary award in Finland, for her novel Fem knivar hade Andrej Krapl (Andrej Krapl had Five Knives). In addition to that she has also published two children’s books, as well as stage plays and scripts for radio drama – and recently her first short film script. She is also active within The Swedish Writers’ Union of Finland. Born and lives in Finland, but writes in her mother tongue Swedish.
Minakshi Thakur
Minakshi published a book of English Poems, An Indian Evening, with Writers Workshop in 2002 and two collections of Hindi poems, Jab Utthi Yavanika and Neend Ka Akhiri Pul in 2003 and 2010. Currently, she works with HarperCollins India and is writing her first novel in English.
Stephan Thome
Born in Biedenkopf, Germany, Stephan earned an M.A. in Philosophy, Religion Studies and China Studies from the Free University Berlin in 2000 and a Ph.D. In 2004. Since 2005, Stephan has been a Visiting Scholar at Academia Sinica in Taipei, doing research on modern Confucian philosophy. His first novel, Grenzgang (Walking the Border) was published in August 2009. He is now at work on his second novel which has the working title, Dein Name sei Arnau (Arnau be Thy Name).
Lotte Thrane
Lotte has curated exhibitions for Danish art museums and worked as an editor at Gyldendal Publishers. Her latest book is the monograph Master of Twilight: Ten Chapters on Lorenz Frølich and his Time, which received the Danish Authors’ Society’s literary award for 2010. Lotte is currently working on a monograph on travelling women, as well as a book about German and Danish artists in Italy from 1840-1860.
Jeremy Tiang
Jeremy Tiang is a writer and translator from Singapore. His short stories have won the Golden Point Award and been shortlisted for the Bridport Prize, and appeared in QLRS and the Philippine Free Press. His plays have received performances or readings at Pan Asian Repertory Theater, New York Theatre Workshop, Soho Theatre London, Portland Stage and the Esplanade, Singapore. He has translated novels by Zhang Yueran and Yeng Pway Ngon, and plays by Quah Sy Ren and Han Lao Da.
João Tordo
João Tordo lives in Lisbon and studied in London and New York. In 2009, he won the prestigious José Saramago Literary Prize with the novel As Três Vidas. Biografia Involuntária dos Amantes (2014) was awarded Best Novel at the Portuguese Author’s Society. He has also received the GQ 2014 award for Literature in Portugal. He has published eight novels. His latest, O Luto de Elias Gro (Mourning Elias Gro) came out in 2015.
Lakan Umali
Lakan Umali is a student and writer based in Metro Manila, Philippines. He graduated with a BA in Anthropology from the University of the Philippines Diliman, and is studying for an MA in Sociology from the same university. His works have been published in Kritika Kultura, Science Fiction: Filipino Fiction for Young Adults, and Lontar: The Journal of Southeast Asian Speculative Fiction. He placed first in the Maningning Miclat Trilingual Poetry Competition (English Division).
Deepak Unnikrishnan
Deepak is a writer from Abu Dhabi who now lives in Chicago. He has studied and taught at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and presently teaches at New York University Abu Dhabi. Temporary People, his first novel, won The Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing.
Wei-Ling Woo
Wei-Ling Woo is a book editor and writer from Singapore. As an editor, she has worked on anthologies of plays and poetry, translations from the Tamil, Chinese and Malay, as well as the occasional cookbook. She was also an editorial mentee at Dalkey Archive Press (Dublin), where she worked on the Library of Korean Literature series. She has written for various journals and online magazines in Singapore, as well as contributed essays on Japanese photography for ArtAsiaPacific. She studied creative writing (non-fiction) and art history at Columbia University.
Anil Yadav
Currently based in Lucknow, Anil is a journalist with daily newspaper The Pioneer. Anil’s literary writing has appeared in various journals and magazine. His fiction and travel writing have been featured on several websites including iharmonium, pratilipi, andkabaadkhanna.
Noor Zaheer
Noor Zaheer is a writer, researcher and theatre activist. Her important published works include: My God is a Woman (a novel), Silent Dunes, Raging Forests and Ret Par Khoon (short stories), Denied by Allah (a study of Muslim personal law), Mere Hisse ki Roshnai (non-fiction) and Surkh Karavan ke Hamsafar (a travelogue). She is a recipient of the Department of Culture’s Senior Fellowship and the Shikhar Sammaan.
Bijal Vachharajani
When Bijal Vachharajani is not reading Harry Potter, she can be found looking for tigers in the jungles of India. In her spare time, she is a consultant with Time Out Bengaluru and Growl Media, a children’s social media company. Before this, Bijal was the Editor of Time Out Bengaluru. She has also worked with Time Out Mumbai, climate group 350.org, Sanctuary Asia, Disney Adventures and PETA India. In between that, Bijal pursued her masters in Environment Security and Peace with a specialization in Climate Change and Security at the UN-mandated University for Peace in Costa Rica. Her research interests include education for sustainable development, children’s literature and climate change.
Surendra Verma
Surendra Verma writes novels, plays and screenplays in chaste Hindi, chaste Urdu and English. He is best known for his plays, Surya ki Antim Kiran se Surya ki Pehli Kiran tak (From Sunset to Sunrise), Chhote Sayyed Bade Sayyed (Junior Sayyed Senior Sayyed) and his novels, Do Murdon ke liye Guldasta and Mujhe Chand Chahiye.
Lauren Wallach
Lauren Wallach was born and raised in Brooklyn. Her fiction has been published in Electric Literature, Joyland, Requited Journal, and The Collagist, and her nonfiction has appeared in The Brooklyn Rail, HTML Giant, and artspace marketplace. Lauren holds an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College, and is currently working on her first book.
Birgitta Wallin
Birgitta works as an editor of a literary magazine, Karavan, and as a translator for literature from English.