Suresh Chabria
(English: Non-fiction) Suresh taught Political Science at St. Xavier’s College, Mumbai, before joining the Film and Television Institute of India, Pune, as Professor of Film Appreciation. He was Director of the National Film Archive of India, during which period he initiated several restorations and programming events showcasing Indian film heritage in India and abroad. He has published several articles on cinema and his book, Light of Asia: Indian Silent Cinema 1912-1934 is considered the most authoritative publication on the subject. His other interests are miniature painting, photography and far eastern poetry.
Anu Singh Choudhary
(Hindi, English: Non-fiction, Fiction & Translation)
Anu works across multiple media formats: print, radio, TV, films and digital. She is the screenwriter of International Emmy nominated ‘Aarya’ and ‘Grahan’ on Disney+Hotstar; Producer of ‘Alma Matters’ on Netflix, Author of ‘Neela Scarf’, and ‘Mamma Ki Diary’; translator of over 20 titles. She has been the recipient of Ramnath Goenka Award for Excellence in Journalism and Laadli Media & Advertising Award.
Anu works across multiple media formats: print, radio, TV, films and digital. She is the screenwriter of International Emmy nominated ‘Aarya’ and ‘Grahan’ on Disney+Hotstar; Producer of ‘Alma Matters’ on Netflix, Author of ‘Neela Scarf’, and ‘Mamma Ki Diary’; translator of over 20 titles. She has been the recipient of Ramnath Goenka Award for Excellence in Journalism and Laadli Media & Advertising Award.
Jayant Kaikini
(Kannada: Fiction, Non-fiction, Poetry & Theatre) Jayant is a poet, short story writer, columnist and playwright with six short story volumes, five poetry collections, four collections of non-fiction and three plays to his credit. He is also an award-winning lyricist, script and dialogue writer for Kannada films. He is the recipient of the DSC prize for the Best South Asian Literature in 2019 for his book No Presents Please – Mumbai Stories.
Manan Kapoor
(English: Fiction & Non-Fiction)
A Map of Longings: The Life and Works of Agha Shahid Ali (Yale University Press & Vintage, Penguin Random House India) is Manan’s latest work. His debut novel The Lamentations of a Sombre Sky was shortlisted for Sahitya Akademi’s Yuva Puruskar 2017. His writings have appeared in Boston Review, The Caravan Magazine, The Hindu,Dawn, Scroll, The Wire, and Firstpost among others.
A Map of Longings: The Life and Works of Agha Shahid Ali (Yale University Press & Vintage, Penguin Random House India) is Manan’s latest work. His debut novel The Lamentations of a Sombre Sky was shortlisted for Sahitya Akademi’s Yuva Puruskar 2017. His writings have appeared in Boston Review, The Caravan Magazine, The Hindu,Dawn, Scroll, The Wire, and Firstpost among others.
Akhil Katyal
(English: Poetry & Translation) Akhil is a writer based in Delhi. He is the author of Like Blood on the Bitten Tongue: Delhi Poems (Westland-Context) and How Many Countries Does the Indus Cross (TGIPC). He has co-edited The World that Belongs to Us: An Anthology of Queer Poetry from South Asia (HarperCollins India) and has translated Ravish Kumar’s Ishq Mein Shahar Hona as A City Happens in Love (Speaking Tiger). He was the University of Iowa International Writing Fellow in Fall 2016. He teaches creative writing at Ambedkar University Delhi.
Sharanya Manivannan
Sharanya Manivannan (English: Fiction, Non-fiction & Poetry) Sharanya writes and illustrates fiction, poetry, children’s literature and non-fiction. Her books include The High Priestess Never Marries, Mermaids In The Moonlight and The Queen of Jasmine Country.
Tashan Mehta
(English: Fiction)Tashan’s debut novel, The Liar’s Weave, was published in 2017 and shortlisted for the Prabha Khaitan Woman’s Voice Award. In 2019, she participated in FIELDWORK 0.2, a multidisciplinary residency that explored alternative infrastructures for the future; she imagined and created an artefact, On Unknown Things, based on this experience. Her short stories have been anthologised in Magical Women, Third Eye, and the Gollancz Anthology of South Asian Speculative Fiction: Volume II.
Suhasini Patni
(English: Fiction & Non-fiction) Suhasini is a freelance writer based in Jaipur and Delhi. She has worked as a teaching fellow in Ashoka University and as visiting faculty in Nirma University. Her writing was short-listed for the Toto Funds the Arts, Creative Writing in English Award 2021. Her work has appeared in Asymptote, Scroll.in, Cha: Asian Literary Journal, and elsewhere.
V. Ramaswamy
(Bangla, English: Non-fiction & Translation) Rama has translated Subimal Misra’s The Golden Gandhi Statue from America: Early Stories, Wild Animals Prohibited: Stories, Anti-stories, and This Could Have Become Ramayan Chamar’s Tale: Two Anti-Novels. His translation of The Runaway Boy, the first novel in the Chandal Jibon Trilogy by Manoranjan Byapari, was published in 2020.
Sita Reddy
(English: Fiction & Non-fiction) Sita is a writer and curator based in Hyderabad. With a PhD in sociology and a MA in museum studies from the University of Pennsylvania, she has written on a range of topics at the intersections of art, science, and museums — from the visual histories of yoga to the decolonization of Company art archives. Her most recent publication, The Weight of a Petal: Ars Botanica (2019), MARG magazine’s first special issue on botanical art, grew out of her research on the Indian medico-botanical archive.
Priya Sarukkai
(English: Fiction, Non-Fiction & Translation) Priya is an award-winning poet, translator and writer of nine books of poetry, speculative fiction, literary non-fiction, translation and, as editor, two poetry anthologies. Her books include Andal The Autobiography of a Goddess(translation), Sing of Life Revisioning Tagore’s Gitanjali (poetry), Clone (speculative fiction) and Bombay/Mumbai: Immersions (non-fiction). Priya has collaborated with photographers, filmmakers and dancers. She is Founding Editor of Poetry at Sangam
K Srilata
(English: Poetry) Srilata teaches Literature and Creative Writing at IIT Madras. She was a writer in residence at the University of Stirling, Scotland, Yeonhui Art Space, Seoul and Sangam house. She has five collections of poetry, the latest of which, The Unmistakable Presence of Absent Humans, was published by Poetrywala in 2019. Instagram handle: srilata_k_poetry
Surendra Verma
(Hindustani: Fiction & Theatre) Surendra is an accomplished novelist and playwright. He has a Masters in Linguistics. He has taught at various institutions. He is the recipient of Sangeet Natak Akademi, Sahitya Akademi awards among others.