Caroline Brothers
Caroline Brothers is working on her second novel, The Memory Stones, which is set in Argentina and Greece. To be published by Bloomsbury, it continues her exploration of displacement and identity that began in her first novel, Hinterland. Born in Australia, she studied history in Britain before training as a foreign correspondent, and currently lives in Paris.
João Anzanello Carrascoza
João was born in a small town in São Paulo state countryside, in Brazil. Carrascoza published many books of short stories and also novels for the young people and children. Carrascoza received the Jabuti (main Brazilian award for published books) and other important awards.
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.
Anupama Chandrasekhar
Anupama Chandrasekhar’s plays have been staged at leading venues in India, Europe and the US. Among her works are Free Outgoing and Disconnect, both of which premiered at the Royal Court Theatre in London. Anupama was a runner-up for the London Evening Standard Award for Most Promising Playwright and a finalist for the Whiting Award (UK), and the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize (US) for Free Outgoing. Her screenplay was a finalist for the Sundance International Screenwriters’ Lab, Utah in 2011 and she was the Asia winner of the Commonwealth Short Story Competition in 2006 for Wings of Vedanthagal.
Yuvan Chandrashekar
Yuvan has more than five anthologies of poems, including Otrai Ulagam ( Singular World) 1996, Vaeroru Kalam ( Another Era) 1999, Pugaichuvarukku Appaal (Beyond the Smoke-wall) 2002, Kai Maradhiyaay Vaitha Naal ( A Day that was Misplaced) 2005, Thotrap Pizhai ( Optical Error) 2009. His poems have been translated into Malayalam, Kannada, Bengali, Oriya and Hindi. He also writes short stories and his novels include Kulla Chithan Charithram ( Story of Kullachithan) 2002, Pagadaiyattam ( Dice Game) 2004, Kaanal Nadhi ( Illusory River) 2006, translated by Padma Narayanan and published by New Horizons Media in 2010, and Veliyetram (Stepping Out) 2009. Yuvan has translated into Tamil Peyaratra Yaathrigan ( Nameless Traveller – An Anthology of Zen Poems) 2003 and Enadhu India (Jim Corbett’s ‘My India’) 2005.
Rajat Chaudhuri
Rajat is a free thinker born in northern India; now practising in Calcutta. He has published one novel Amber Dusk and short stories in English and Bengali publications like The Statesman, The Telegraph, Bhashabandhan, Arambha and Times of India. His dark, surreal and twisted tales appear in Underground Voices, Notes from the Undeground, Eclectica and other snakepits of the international literary underground. Chaudhuri reviews fiction for Indian Literature and The Asian Review of Books.
Anu Singh Choudhary
Anu Singh Choudhary is a communications consultant and documentary filmmaker. Her debut collection of short stories Neela Scarf was a bestseller, and her non-fiction book Mamma ki Diary is believed to be the first of its kind in Hindi. She has made six documentaries so far. Anu also writes for national dailies on child rights and gender.
Mathilde Walter Clark
Mathilde is Danish-American novelist and short story writer who currently lives in Copenhagen. Her most recent book is the critically acclaimed Priapus, a portrait of a seducer.
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.
Jawaid Danish
Jawaid Danish is a recipient of the prestigious Civic Arts Award (Canada), the Shiromani Sahitya Award (India), and the South Asian Theatre Festival Award (U.S.A.). He is the author of 12 books, and his plays have been translated into English, Swedish, Hindi, Bengali and Kannada. He is the Artistic Director of Rangmanch Canada (www.rangmanch-canada.org) and lives in Toronto where he organises an annual Hindustani Drama Festival showcasing the rich heritage of multilingual Indian Theatre, and has just produced a telefilm, Bara Shayer Chota Aadmi, the first Indian telefilm of Canada.
Nitoo Das
Nitoo’s first poetry collection, Boki, was published in September 2008. Her poetry has also appeared on Poetry International Web, Pratilipi, Muse India, Eclectica, Poetry with Prakriti and in several anthologies.
Nabina Das
Nabina Das has a novel titled Footprints in the Bajra (Cedar Books) and an MFA from Rutgers University. Her poetry collection, Into the Migrant City, is forthcoming.
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.
Saudamini Deo
Saudamini Deo is a writer and photographer based in India. She is one of the founding editors of the esoteric literary magazine RIC Journal. Her words and images have appeared in 3:AM Magazine, Words without Borders, Scroll, Documentum, Seagull Catalogue, Asteri(x) Journal, Lancet Neurology, Kindle Magazine, etc.
Rajasekaran Devibharathi
Devibharathi is a well-known Tamil writer, with four short-story collections and two novels to his credit. A selection of his short stories was published in English as Farewell Mahatma, and a translation of his first novel is forthcoming as The Loneliness of a Shadow. He is currently working on his third novel.
Glenn Diaz
Glenn Diaz was born in Manila in 1986. He is completing his master’s degree in creative writing from the University of the Philippines in Diliman. His works, mostly fiction, have appeared or are forthcoming in Likhaan 5: The Journal of Contemporary Philippine Literature, Volume: An Anthology of Contemporary Filipino Fiction, and the Quarterly Literary Review Singapore, among others. He is a freelance writer and editor.
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.
