Xaver Bayer
Xaver was born in Vienna, where he lives. He has published several books, both poetry and fiction, including Heute konnte ein glucklicher Tag sein (2001) and Die Alaskastrabe(2003). His works of drama include Als ich heute aufwachte, aufstand und mich wusch, da schien mir plotzlich, mir sei alles klar auf dieser Welt und ich wusste, wie man leben soll(2004). At the moment he is working on a film script. Writes novels, theatre-plays and poetry. Published several books. At the moment he is working on a film-script.
Suneetha B
Suneetha is a writer, independent web-journalist and bilingual translator from India. She writes poetry and fiction in both English and Malayalam. She has published fiction and poetry online and has two translations in print to credit.
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).
Sharanya Manivannan
Sharanya Manivannan was born in India in 1985 and grew up elsewhere. As a spoken word artist, she has performed extensively since 2001, at venues including an abandoned pier, a cemetery, and the 11th century Borobudur Temple. Her first full-length book of poems, published October 2008, is Witchcraft. She is working on a novel, Constellation of Scars.
Salma
Salma writes in Tamil. She has previously published two collections of poetry, Oru Malaiyum Innoru Malaiyum and Pachai Devathai and a novel Irandam Jamangalin Kathai. She is currently at work on a collection of short stories.
Ram Ganesh Kamatham
Ram has created work for stage, film, radio, comics and video games. In 2007, he attended the Royal Court Theatre’s International Residency for Emerging Playwrights on a Charles Wallace Award. The same year, he was also awarded a SARAI-CSDS Independent Research Fellowship for the development of his play Creeper. His play Square Root of Minus One was published by Samuel French and an extract of his play “Dancing on Glass” was included in Multiple City — Writings on Bangalore (Penguin India, 2009)Ram is the Executive Editor of PT Notes, the Prithvi Theatre’s monthly newsletter.
Perumal Murugan
Perumal Murugan writes in Tamil and is the author of four novels, three collections of short stories and three anthologies of poetry. His Tamil novels Koola Maathaari and Nizhal Mutram have been translated into English as Seasons of the Palm and Current Show. Seasons of the Palm was short-listed for the Kiriyama Award. He has received awards from the Tamil Nadu government as well as from Katha Books. Perumal is also interested in literary criticism, lexicography and publishing.
N S Koenings
N.S. is a fiction-writer and visual artist. Her novel, The Blue Taxi, was published in 2006 by Little, Brown and Company, followed by her short story collection, Theft, in 2008. Holder of a Dutch passport, she was born in Belgium and grew up in East Africa and Europe, Spends most of her time thinking about money, love, empire, the nature of evil, and the concept of ‘the nation,’ she is currently working on two projects in prose and experimenting with the graphic novel form.
Mridula Koshy
Mridula Koshy’s novel Not Only the Things That Have Happened (HarperCollins India) was shortlisted for the 2013 Crossword Book Award. Her short story collection, If It Is Sweet (Tranquebar Press and Brass Monkey Australia) won the 2009 Shakti Bhatt First Book Prize and was shortlisted for the 2009 Vodafone Crossword Book Award. Koshy lives in New Delhi with her poet-schoolteacher partner and three exceptionally wonderful children.
Michael Obert
Michael is a renowned German book author and journalist who writes for Die Zeit, Stern, GEO, and many other prestigious German periodicals, as well for The Journal in New York. He reports mainly from Africa and Latin America. In his recent travelogue “Regenzauber” he describes traveling for seven months on Africa’s third longest river, the Niger. As a writer Obert has been compared with the likes of Bruce Chatwin. His journalistic and literary work has been honored with various awards. Obert currently lives in Berlin.
Manav Kaul
Manav writes in Hindi and founded the theatre group Aranya in 2004. He has written and directed several plays, including Shakkar ke Paanch Daane (translated into English as Five Grains of Sugar), Peele Scooterwala Aadmi, Bali Aur Shambhu, Ilhaam, Aisa Kehte Hain, Shabd Sangeet and Park (also translated into English under the same name). He has also adapted and directed Sartre’s No Exit into Hindi as Antaheen as well as Vijay Tendulkar’s Ashi Pakhare Yeti into Kannada. He is currently directing a play called Red Sparrow.
Madhulika Liddle
Madhulika Liddle is an Indian who worked in hospitality, advertising and instructional design before deciding to devote all her energies to writing in English. Over the years, several of her short stories have been published in anthologies or have won awards. Her story A Morning Swim, about an eight-year old orphan who dives into the Yamuna to collect coins in order to make ends meet, won the Commonwealth Broadcasting Association’s Short Story Competition in 2003. Madhulika lives in New Delhi, India, and spends her spare time reading (mainly historical detective fiction), watching old cinema, and — whenever possible — traveling.
Lidia Bravo
Lidia has published two books of poetry, Las Enamoradas (Pre-textos, 2004) and Perder la muerte (Puerta del Mar, 2006). She has also translated the novel Holy Smoke from English into Spanish. (Anne and Jane Campion, Espasa Calpe, 2001). She has done readings of her poetry in Ireland, USA and Spain. Currently she lives in London, working in the arts.
Lars Husman
Lars Husman is a Danish writer. He has written one novel, the dark comedy ‘Mit venskab med Jesus Kristus’ (‘My friendship with Jesus Christ’). It was published in Denmark in 2008 and has since been sold to Sweden, Norway, Lithuania, The Netherlands, France, Italy, India and The UK.
Kishore Singh
Kishore Singh works as a senior editor with the financial daily Business Standard, handling features and edit the Weekend section of the paper. In the past, he has edited magazines in the leisure and lifestyle space, and worked in publishing as an editor. He writes and edits books or script documentaries in his private time and designs homes for friends as a hobby.
K Srilata
A poet, fiction writer, translator and academic, Srilata is an Associate Professor (English) at IIT Madras. Based in India, Srilata writes in English and translates from Tamil. She teaches courses in Creative writing and Literature, Her debut novel Table for Four was long listed recently for the Man Asian literary prize and is to be published by Penguin India. Her books include The Rapids of a Great River: The Penguin Book of Tamil Poetry (Penguin/Viking, 2009), an anthology of poems Seablue Child (Brown Critique), The Other Half of the Coconut: Women Writing Self-Respect History (Zubaan) and Short Fiction from South India (OUP).
Joshua Furst
Joshua Furst is the author of the novel The Sabotage Cafe and the story collection Short People. His work has been published in a variety of journals and periodicals, including among others, the Chicago Tribune, Conjunctions and PEN America. He teaches at The Pratt Institute.
Janhavi Acharekar
Janhavi is a Mumbai-based freelance writer and the author of a collection of short stories titled Window Seat: Rush hour Stories from the City (HarperCollins, 2009). She has authored a travel guidebook on Mumbai and Goa for the American series Moon Handbooks (Avalon, 2009) and her writings feature in various short fiction and travel anthologies. She was the Charles Wallace Fellow at the University of Stirling, Scotland, in 2009.