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.
Sophie Stein
(German: Fiction, Screen) Sophie writes novels and screenplays. Her multi-disciplinary work has won several awards.
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.
Aarti Wani
(English/Marathi: Translation, Non-Fiction) Aarti’s translations of prose and poetry have been variously published as have her writings on cinema and literature. She is the founding co-editor of Studies in South Asian Film and Media and was a Professor of English for many years.
Milind Wani
Milind edits the magazine People In Conservation and has written on politics, media, cinema and environment. He writes short and long stories, one of which has featured in BluSlate. He is presently working on a novella.
Hwang Yu-Won
Hwang was born in Ulsan in 1982. He received a B.A in Religious Studies and Philosophy from Sogang University and is currently getting his Ph.D in Indian Philosophy at Dongguk University. He made his debut as a poet, winning the Munhakdongne New Artist award in 2013. He has published over eighty poems in numerous literary magazines during the last three years. His first book of poetry Everything in the World, Maximized, was published in 2015, was awarded the 34th Kim Soo-young prize, which is one of the most famous poetry awards in Korea.
Annie Zaidi
Annie is the author of ‘Known Turf: Bantering with Bandits and Other True Tales’ (Non-fiction/Tranquebar 2010) and a collection of poems, ‘Crush’. Some poems have appeared in The Little Magazine, Desilit, Pratilipi, Indian Literature and Mint; some fiction was published in ‘21 Under 40’ (Zubaan), Verve, and The Raleigh Review. Her first play ‘Name, Place, Animal, Thing’ was short-listed for The Hindu MetroPlus Playwright Award, 2009. She has been a journalist for a decade and has written for several newspapers and magazines including Frontline, Tehelka, Mid-Day and Deccan Herald. She currently lives in Mumbai, India.
Adam Zdrodowski
Adam Zdrodowski, born in 1979, poet and translator; the author of three collections of poetry: Przygody, etc. (2005, Adventures, etc.), Jesień Zuzanny (2007, Susanna’s Autumn) and 47 lotów balonem (2013, 47 Balloon Flights). He translated authors such as Gertrude Stein, James Schuyler, William S. Burroughs, Henry Green, Raymond Roussel, Forrest Gander, Harryette Mullen, Rod Mengham, Marcus Slease, Mark Ford and Grzegorz Wróblewski. He lives in Warsaw, Poland.
