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.
Tania De Rozario
Tania De Rozario is an artist, writer and curator who has exhibited in Singapore and abroad. She is the author of Reasons for the Rain and Tender Delirium, both set to be published in 2013. Tania is a Hedgebrook alumna, recipient of numerous local awards and is co-founder/curator of Etiquette, Singapore’s first ongoing arts showcase focused on feminist issues. To pay the bills, she also freelances as a drawing instructor, an art-writer and an adjunct lecturer at LASALLE College of the Arts.
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.
J.P. Sanakya
Sanakya’s stories have been published in such Tamil literary magazines as Kalachuvadu, Uyirmey, Kalkuthirai, Adavi, 361 Degree, Theeranathi, www.ulagathamil.com and Semmai as well as in India Today. He has published two collections of short stories, En Veettin Varaipadam (2002) and Kanavu Puththagam (2005). He received the Sundara Ramaswamy Young Writer Award in 2010 and the Katha award. A translation of his story, The Force of Gravity was included in the Oxford University Press anthology of Tamil Dalit writing. Sanakya also has diplomas in Carnatic Music and Painting and is a practitioner of Sabhyasi transcendental meditation.
Kinjal Sethia
(English: Poetry) Kinjal’s work has been published in nether Quarterly, Gulmohar Quarterly, In Parentheses, Bangalore Review, Tahoma Literary Review, Marrow Magazine, Singapore Unbound, Out of Print among other places. She is a Fiction Editor at The Bombay Literary Magazine and a co-founder of The Osmosis Poetry Prize.
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.
Aseem Shrivatsava
Aseem Shrivastava is from India. He got his doctorate in Economics from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He taught Economics at colleges and universities in India and the US for many years. Most recently, he taught Philosophy at Nordic College, Norway. He now researches and writes independently on issues emanating from globalization. He is currently working with Ashish Kothari on a book evaluating India’s embrace of globalization from an environmental angle, entitled “Unsustainable India.
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.
Mehak Siddiqui
Mehak Siddiqui is a freelance writer and blogger based in Ahmedabad, India. Her work has appeared in a number of major Indian magazines. She has a Masters in Communication from the University of Hyderabad, and is currently working on her first novel.
Kandala Singh
(English: Poetry) Kandala is a writer and researcher from New Delhi. Her poems appear in Rattle, Frontier Poetry, Southeast Review, and The Penguin Book of Poems on the Indian City, among other places.
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).
Leonora Christina Skov
Leonora Christina is a novelist based in Copenhagen. She has published the highly acclaimed novels Champagnepigen (The Good Time Girl, 2007), and Rygsvømmeren (The Backstroke Swimmer, 2003). She has also published a couple of children’s books, an introduction to queer theory, and a feminist anthology. She holds an Masters Degree in Comparative Literature and work as an outspoken debater and high profile literary critic for Danish weeklyWeekendavisen.
Rahul Soni
Rahul is one of the founders and editors of Pratilipi, a literary journal, and Pratilipi Books, an independent publishing venture. He is Chief Editor at Writer’s Side, a literary agency and manuscript assessment service. His work has appeared in Almost Island, Asymptote, Biblio, Dhauli Review, Hindi, Indian Literature, Pratilipi and Tehelka.
Honggyu Son
Honggyu Son was born in Jeongeup-si, Jeollabuk-do, Korea in 1975. He graduated from Dongguk University with a major in Korean Language and Literature. He won the Best New Writer of Jakgasegye (The World of Writers) in 2001 and has also been awarded Daesan Creative Writing Funds. His books include Saramui Shinwha (The Human Myth), Bongseobi Garasadae (As Bongseob Says…) and Gwishinui Sidae (The Age of Ghosts).
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).
N Sukumaran
Sukumaran has been the Executive Editor of the Tamil magazine Kungumam, and Chief News Editor of Surya TV, a Malayalam satellite channel, and Chief Editor of Pulari Prasitheekaranam a Malayalam publishing house..
Park Ju Taek
Mr. Park has published several collections of poems, Movement Architecture of Dreams, What a Painful Rest the Wandering Is, Under the Star of the Desert and The Pupil of Time. His critical essays include Dream of Recovering Paradise , The Restoration of National Emotion, Reflection and Self-examination and The Soul of the Red Hour. (Please note that these are not formal English titles as his books are yet to be translated into English). Mr. Park currently teaches Korean Literature at the Kyung Hee University. He has received several awards including the Sowol Poetry Award for his poem The Pupil of Time.
Mikaela Taivassalo
Mikaela writes mainly prose, but also drama. She has published two novels and a collection of short stories, and has been awarded the Runeberg Prize, a national literary award in Finland, for her novel Fem knivar hade Andrej Krapl (Andrej Krapl had Five Knives). In addition to that she has also published two children’s books, as well as stage plays and scripts for radio drama – and recently her first short film script. She is also active within The Swedish Writers’ Union of Finland. Born and lives in Finland, but writes in her mother tongue Swedish.
