. . BIO Christopher Merrill has published six collections of poetry, including Watch Fire, for which he received the Lavan Younger Poets Award from the Academy of American Poets; many edited volumes and translations; and six books of nonfiction, among them, Only the Nails Remain: Scenes from the Balkan Wars, Things of the Hidden God: Journey to…
BIO Nizar Sartawi is a poet, translator, essayist, and columnist. He was born in Sarta, Palestine, in 1951. He is a member of numerous literary and cultural organizations, including the Jordanian Writers Association (Jordan), General Union of Palestinian Writers (Palestine), General Union of Arab Writers (Cairo), and Asian and African Writers Union. He has participated…
BIO Ingeborg Bachmann is one of the prominent poet of Austria. She was a part of the legendary literary circle known as Gruppe 47, whose members also included Ilse Aichinger, Paul Celan, Heinrich Böll, Marcel Reich-Ranicki and Günter Grass. Bachmann’s literary work focuses on themes like personal boundaries, establishment of the truth, and philosophy of…
BIO Jennifer Reeser is the author of six collections of poetry. Her first was the winner of the Word Press First Book Prize. X.J. Kennedy wrote that her debut ‘ought to have been a candidate for a Pulitzer.’ Her third, ‘Sonnets from the Dark Lady and Other Poems’ was a finalist for the Donald Justice…
BIO Samih Masoud is a poet, writer, and researcher. He was born in Haifa, Palestine, in 1938. He holds a Ph.D. degree in economics. Masoud is a Member of the Jordanian Writers Association and is the chairman of the Canadian Center for Middle Eastern Studies (CMESC) in Montréal. He has published a poetry collection in Arabic titled The Other Face of Days and another collection in English titled Haifa and other…
BIO Usha Akella has authored four books of poetry, one chapbook, and scripted/produced one musical drama. Her latest poetry book was published by Sahitya Akademi, India’s highest Literary authority in 2019. She recently earned an 2018 MSt. In Creative Writing from Cambridge University, UK. She read with a group of eminent South Asian Diaspora poets…
BIO Shadab Zeest Hashmi is the author of poetry collections Kohl and Chalk and Baker of Tarifa. Her latest work, Ghazal Cosmopolitan, is a book of essays and poems exploring the culture and craft of the Ghazal and Qasida forms, and has been praised by Marilyn Hacker as “a marvelous interweaving of poetry, scholarship, literary…
BIO Pramila Venkateswaran, a core member of Women Included, poet laureate of Suffolk County, Long Island (2013-15) and co-director of Matwaala: South Asian Diaspora Poetry Festival, is the author of Thirtha (Yuganta Press, 2002) Behind Dark Waters (Plain View Press, 2008), Draw Me Inmost (Stockport Flats, 2009), Trace (Finishing Line Press, 2011), Thirteen Days to…
BIO Helmuth A. Niederle (born November 16, 1949, in Vienna) is an major contemporary Austrian writer, translator and editor. He studied ethnology, folklore, art history and sociologist at the University of Vienna. Later, he worked as a research associate as well as in the capacity of deputy head at the Austrian Society for Literature. For…
BIO Honoured with Member Of The Most Excellent Order Of The British Empire (MBE) for Literature, in the Queen’s New Year Honours list 2020, Yogesh Patel is a writer, poet and editor of Skylark. He runs Skylark Publications UK as well as a non-profit Word Masala project to promote SA diaspora literature. A founder of the literary charity,…
Editorial Sanity Amidst the Chaos: The Fifth Anniversary Edition of Life and Legends On June 15th, 2014, when the First Edition of Life and Legends was published online from Irvine, California, in the United States, that day, the full moon had occurred in Sagittarius, the sign of the Truth-speaker and Truth-seeker. Like the waxing…
