Avinab Dutta-areng
(English: Poetry) Avinab Dutta-Areng has lived in Tura, Calcutta and Bombay. Annus Horribilis, his first book of poems, is forthcoming from Penguin/Vintage in 2021. He currently lives and works in Kodaikanal.
Deepika Arwind
(English: Theater) Deepika Arwind is a writer and theatre maker, who runs The Lost Post Initiative, a theatre and performing arts collective, working collectively with diverse artists, largely around the subjects of gender and women on stage. She is a scholar of the International Forum at Theatretreffen, and presented her work at the JFK Centre of Performing Arts 2016 and Ballhaus Naunynstrasse, Berlin, in 2018. She has won several awards, including the Hindu Playwright Award, the Stuckemarkt Prize at Theatretreffen and the TOTO Award. She was nominated for the Rolex Mentor and Arts Protégé Initiative 2019. Her current touring works are No Rest in the Kingdom and I am not here
Sowmiya Ashok
(English: Nonfiction) Sowmiya Ashok is an independent journalist based in Chennai, India. She was a correspondent with The Hindu and The Indian Express in Delhi. She has also reported from Beijing, New York and Kenya for several Indian and international publications. She writes about environment and climate change, migration, tech and China. She is learning Mandarin and working on her first nonfiction book.
Nikhil Baisane
(English, Marathi & Hindi: Fiction) Nikhil Baisane works as a freelance writer in Amalner. He did his Masters in English at PratapCollege, Amalner, affiliated with KBCNM University, Jalgaon, for which he received the Gold Medal, 2007. He writes in English, Marathi and Hindi, and is currently working on his first novel, simultaneously in Marathi and English.
Aparajith Ramnath
(English: Nonfiction/Fiction) Aparajith Ramnath is a historian of science, technology and business. He teaches at Ahmedabad University. Aparajith is the author of The Birth of an Indian Profession: Engineers, Industry, and the State (OUP 2017). In 2018, he won the Indian National Science Academy’s Young Historian of Science Award. His articles, opinion pieces, personal essays, and short stories have been published in The Hindu, scroll.in, the Wire, thREAD, The New Indian Express, and Reading Hour. He is working on his second novel.
Mohit Manohar
(English: Fiction) Mohit Manohar was born in Patna and grew up in Bihar, Jharkhand, West Bengal and Delhi. He earned a B.A. in art history and creative writing from Princeton University and is currently completing a Ph.D in art history at Yale University. His stories have appeared in Best Debut Short Stories, Michigan Quarterly Review, and Nimrod. He has received a PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers and Nimrod’s Katherine Anne Porter Prize for Fiction. At Sangam House, he is revising a draft of his new novel.
Sarah Mariam
(English: Theater/Translation)Sarah Mariam is a writer and researcher in New Delhi, working with prose, dramaturgy and translation. Her translations have been published with Penguin India & Aakaar Books. Her MPhil and PhD explore modes of stage writing and historically trace the evolving notion of theatrical authorship. She has written performance-scripts that have toured theatre spaces and festivals in India, has worked as dramaturg for the National School of Drama and has taught at the Shri Ram School for Performing Arts. She is a recipient of the Charles Wallace India Trust Fellowship in London (2019), the Fulbright Doctoral Research Fellowship, New York (2020) and has been Visiting Scholar at Tisch School of Arts, NYU.
Purva Naresh
(English: Theater)Purva Naresh is a playwright and a filmmaker. A graduate of FTII Pune, she has been directing for the stage more often in the past few years. She has been awarded the Ustad Bismillah Khan Yuva Puruskar by the Sangeet Natak Akademi Delhi and Safdar Hashmi Puraskar by Sangeet Natak Akademi UP. She also has the Laadli Media Award for the best play on Gender sensitization in 2012. She was also the chosen playwright for the Re-imagine India Grant by Arts Council UK to develop a play for UK audiences at the Curve theatre, UK. The same year, Jatinga, a play penned by her, opened in Sydney, Australia. Her fascination with the Tawaif, the “Ganga Jamuni” Tehzeeb of Lucknow and now, Kashmir is evident in her work. She writes primarily in Hindi. Music is an integral part of her work, which explains why she seeks collaboration with Shubha Mudgal so often.