Aparna Andhare
Aparna Andhare is an independent art historian, curator, and writer. She writes catalogue and research essays, regularly teaches courses around history of art, and is devoted to her cocker spaniel, Loki.
Michelle Cahill
Michelle Cahill is a novelist and poet of Indian origin. She has published two works of fiction and three collections of poetry. Her work has appeared in the The Australian Weekend Review, the Forward Book of Poetry, Wasafari, Meanjin and The London Magazine. She is an Honorary Researcher at the University of Tasmania, on unceded Lutruwita country.
Estelle Coppolani
Estelle Coppolani is a poet and playwright from Réunion Island. She works on Indian Ocean’s oral and written literary funds and on poetic recompositions generated by migrations. Her work defends the ideas of anticolonial tradition and mythological abundance.
Satya Dash
Satya Dash is a poet and recipient of the Srinivas Rayaprol Poetry Prize and the Vijay Nambisan Poetry Fellowship. His poems appear in Ninth Letter, Sixth Finch, Waxwing, Prairie Schooner, and Cincinnati Review, among others. He now lives in Bangalore, India.
Thomas Empl
Thomas Empl’s short story collection Ausbruch was published by parasitenpresse in 2021, which was followed by a second volume, Inneres Zittern. He is part of the writers’ collective Hypertext.
Tomasso Giartosio
Tomasso Giartosio has put out eight cross-genre books– variously mingling memoir, essay, narrative, and poetry. He worked for more than twenty years as a high school teacher, and as a radio host for Italy’s NPR. He writes in Italian and is fluent in English.
Teji Grover
Teji Grover is a Hindi poet, fiction writer, translator and painter. She has published several collections of poetry, a novel, a collection of short stories and a collection of essays.
Aashna Jamal
Aashna Jamal is a writer from Kashmir. Her stories appear in Fountain Ink, Muse India, Caravan, Inverse Journal, the Diplomat, and Bebaak Jigar- Of Dry Tongues and Hearts, a print anthology of Indian fiction. She is currently an economic advisor to the government in Somalia.
Jayasree Kalathil
Jayasree is a bilingual writer and award-winning translator of Malayalam literature. She is the author of the children’s book The Sackclothman, which has been translated into Malayalam, Telugu and Hindi. Her recent work includes translations of Palestinian poetry into Malayalam as part of the global effort #readpalestine.
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.
Bishnu N Mohapatra
Bishnu Mohapatra is an Odia poet, social theorist, educator and commentator. He is also a Professor of Politics and the Director of Moturi Satyanarayana Centre for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences at KREA University, India.
Chiranthi Rajapakse
Chiranthi Rajapakse is a writer and lives in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Her writing has been published by New Ceylon Writing, Wachana, Samyuktha fiction and Fairlight shorts, and she is part of the New Ink forum. Chiranthi has degrees in Law and Dentistry and has worked as a feature writer, legal researcher and project manager.
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.
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).