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.
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.
Vivek Shanbhag
Vivek Shanbhag writes in Kannada. He has published five short story collections, three novels and two plays, and has edited two anthologies, one of them in English. He published and edited the literary journal Desha Kaala for seven years. His novel Ghachar Ghochar was published in English translation to international acclaim. An engineer by training, Vivek Shanbhag lives in Bangalore, India.
Urvashi Bahuguna
Urvashi Bahuguna was awarded an MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia, United Kingdom in 2014. Her debut poetry collection, Mudscope, was selected for the 2017 Emerging Poet’s Prize and will be published in 2018 by The Great Indian Poetry Collective. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Orion, The Nervous Breakdown, Eclectica Magazine, The Fourth River, Barely South Review, Kitaab, Jaggery, The Four Quarters Magazine and elsewhere.
Saudha Kasim
Saudha Kasim started out studying architecture in college, gave that up for graphic design before moving to a career in corporate communications. Along the way, she published short stories in various online journals. She wrote a starter novel that remains unpublished and is now working on her second, which she hopes will see the light of day soon. She 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.
Justin Go
Justin’s first novel, The Steady Running of the Hour, was published in 2014 by Simon & Schuster and has been translated into twenty languages. Born in Los Angeles, he was educated at the University of California, Berkeley and University College London. At present he is at work on his second novel.
Rita Kothari
Rita is a Professor of Humanities and Translation Studies at the Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar in India. She is a reputed theorist and practitioner of translation with numerous books and awards to her credit. She has also done extensive work on borders, partition and language politics in India. Her notable monographs include Burden of Refuge: Partition, Sindh, Gujarat; Memories and Movements: Borders and Communities in Banni, Kutch, Gujarat; and Translating India: The Cultural Politics of India Kothari. She has translated The Stepchild by Gujarati Angaliyat, the first Dalit novel, as well as poetry and short stories from Sindhi and Gujarati. She is currently editing A Multilingual Nation: Translation and Language Dynamics in India (forthcoming, Oxford University Press) and translating Agnipariksha, a memoir based on riots of 1969 in Ahmedabad.
Michael Fehr
Michael grew up in Muri, near Bern. He studied at the Swiss Institute for Literature and the Bern Arts College, where he gained his Master degree in Contemporary Arts Practice. In 2013 he published his first work of fiction called Kurz vor der Erlösung (On the Verge of Salvation), 2015 followed his second work Simeliberg. Michael is also a storyteller and works together with the guitarist Manuel Troller to compose music to his lyrics, which then are performed on concert stages. Fehr supports Babelsprech and Treibhaus, two initiatives to promote young German literature.
Esther Becker
Esther is a freelance writer and performer. She has a master’s degree in Scenic Arts Practice from Bern University of the Arts (HKB) and studied Literary Writing at Swiss Literary Institute Biel (HKB) and German Literary Institute Leipzig (DLL). Her play Supertrumpf was awarded with an Invitation to Heidelberg Play Market 2013 and the Kathrin-Türks Award 2014. She is a member of the performance collective bigNOTWENDIGKEIT and at the moment part of the Swiss Playwright Program Dramenprozessor 16/17.
Panagiotis Kechagias
Panagiotis was born in Athens and studied Psychology at the University of Crete and at Panteion University. His reviews, articles, and photography regularly appear in magazines and newspapers. In 2016, Antipodes will publish his debut in Greek, a short story collection, Final Warning. He is the co-founder of independent English-language micropress Pilotless Press, which publishes original fiction by Greek authors writing in English.
Krupa Ge
Krupa is a writer and journalist from Madras. She is the founder/editor of the literary magazine The Madras Mag (www.madrasmag.in). She was shortlisted for a Toto Prize in Creative Writing in 2016. Her short fiction has appeared in Papercuts, Blink Ink, Scroll, Sahita Akademi’s Indian Literature, etc. Her reportage and cultural writings have appeared in publications such as The Hindu, The New Indian Express, Firstpost, etc.
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.
Saumya Roy
Saumya Roy is a journalist and social entrepreneur. She has written for Outlook, Mint, Forbes, Bloomberg News, and The Wall Street Journal website. She then set up Vandana Foundation, a non profit that supports livelihoods of the poorest of poor in urban and rural Maharashtra. She is working on a book project that chronicles the lives of rag pickers at Mumbai’s Deonar garbage mountain. It is about life on the world’s largest garbage mountain, the communities it sustains and its possible closure.
Joan Michelson
Joan won first prize in the Bristol Poetry Competition, UK, first prize in the Torriano Competition UK, and she was awarded the Hamish Canham Prize from the Poetry Society of England. Her writing has been selected for both British Council and Arts Council anthologies of New Writing. Her poems have been published in a variety of literary magazine. She has published a full collection, Toward the Heliopause, and a chapbook, Bloomvale Home. Originally from New England, she lives England.
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.
Tashan Mehta
Tashan Mehta completed her MPhil in Literature from the University of Cambridge before returning to Mumbai to work as a freelance writer. Her short stories have appeared in magazines such as Out of Print and Notes. She has just finished her first novel, In Between, and is currently working on her second.
Jinhee Park
Jinhee Park actively works on convergence in performing arts theatre, both as a playwright and as a filmmaker. Her work is based on the tales and myths of Korea. She also wrote the screenplay for the film Shiva, Throw Your Life (2013) – the first South Korean film set in India.