BIO Stuart Gunter is working toward a Master’s Degree in Mental Health Counseling and lives in Schuyler, Virginia. He likes to paddle the Rockfish River and play drums in obscure rock bands. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in London Grip, Gravel, Deep South, Streetlight, and The Madison Review, among others. Beach Vendor…
BIO Roger Camp lives in Seal Beach, California. His work has appeared in the Chiron Review, North American Review, Southern Poetry Review and Nimrod. Gunga Din: Reincarnation* An’ I’ll get a swig in Hell from Gunga Din! –Rudyard Kipling Kovalam beach is awash with Westerners, old India hands sloshed in gin hippies, smoked in…
. BIO Jan Wiezorek writes from Barron Lake in Michigan. He has taught writing at St. Augustine College, Chicago, and his poetry has appeared or is forthcoming at The London Magazine, Yes Poetry, L’Ephemere Review, Words Dance, Adelaide Literary Magazine, Leaping Clear, and Cabildo Quarterly. Jan is author of Awesome Art Projects That Spark Super…
BIO Simone Liggins earned her MFA in Writing at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics of Naropa University. The foundation for her love of writing and literature was paved at an early age and blossomed during her teenage years through the kind of tortured freedom that only the ostracism & funk-weirdness of being…
BIO Lee Upton is the author of a novella, two short story collections, and volumes of poetry, literary criticism, and essays. Her poetry has appeared in numerous anthologies, in three editions of The Best American Poetry, and in The New Yorker, The New Republic, American Poetry Review, The Atlantic, and other magazines. She is the Francis…
BIO Steffen Horstmann’s poems and book reviews have appeared in publications throughout the world, including Baltimore Review, Free State Review, Istanbul Literary Review, Louisiana Literature, Oyez Review, Texas Poetry Journal, and Tiferet. He has published two books of ghazals, Jalsaghar (2016) and Ujjain (2017). In the Himalayas Mirabai is seen where the lark’s trill echoes in the Himalayas, At dusk when falling snow becomes dust…
He was born on July 13, 1814, in Setighat, Tanahun District of Nepal. He is known for translating the great epic of the Ramayana from the original Sanskrit into Khas language of Nepal. Most of his texts were not available to the Nepali readers for a long time, and he was mainly known for writing the Bhanubhaktey…
Dr. Abhi Subedi is a significant name in Nepali literature. Born on June 30, 1945, in Tehrathum district in Eastern Nepal, and educated in Nepal and Scottland, he has written over four dozen books of poetry, translation, essay, and playwright. He has done several interdisciplinary studies on the subjects of freedom, culture, literature, arts and…
BIO Raghupati Sahay (28 August 1896 – 3 March 1982), better known under his pen name Firaq Gorakhpuri, was a writer, critic, and, according to one commentator, one of the most noted contemporary Urdu poets from India. He established himself among peers including Muhammad Iqbal, Yagana Changezi, Jigar Moradabadi and Josh Malihabadi. BIO Huzaifa Pandit…
BIO Born on September 3rd, 1952, Manprasad Subba is a Nepali poet from Darjeeling, India. He has nine volumes of poetry and a novel to his credit. He has co-authored a book of critical essays and has edited two journals in Nepali and English, as well as two commemorative books. He has also translated Nepali…
BIO Dipika Mukherjee is an author and sociolinguist. Her second novel, Shambala Junction, won the UK Virginia Prize for Fiction (Aurora Metro, 2016). Her debut novel was longlisted for the Man Asian Literary Prize and republished as Ode to Broken Things (Repeater, 2016). Her short story collection is Rules of Desire (Fixi, 2015) and edited…
. Ani Choying Drolma was born in Kathmandu, Nepal to Tibetan refugee parents in 1971. From the age of five, she did not have a day went by without beating to her mother and herself by her father. Seeing lots of sufferings and pains in life, in order to get rid of the tragic destiny…
