Neelam Saxena Chandra is a bilingual writer and poet, who writes in English and Hindi. She has written over forty books, including twenty seven poetry collections, four novels, one novella, five collections of short stories and ten children’s books. Her awards and honors include – Bharat Nirman Literary Award, Premchand Award, Rabindranath Tagore International Poetry…
Nabina Das
BIO NABINA DAS is a poet and writer based in Hyderabad. Her poetry collections are BLUE VESSEL and INTO THE MIGRANT CITY. She has authored a novel titled FOOTPRINTS IN THE BAJRA and her short fiction volume is THE HOUSE OF TWINING ROSES: Stories of the Mapped and the Unmapped. A 2012 Charles Wallace creative…
Mona Dash
BIO Mona Dash is an Indian writer settled in London. With an education in Telecoms Engineering and Management from Odisha, she works as a sales manager in a leading global technology organisation. She writes fiction and poetry and her work has been anthologised widely and published in international journals. She has a Masters in Creative…
Jhilmil Breckenridge
BIO Jhilmil Breckenridge is a poet, writer and activist. She is the Founder of Bhor Foundation, a mental health charity. Her areas of work are mental health, domestic violence and trauma. Jhilmil is currently working on a PhD in the UK and her poetry and other writings have been widely published and anthologised. Jhilmil is…
Smeetha Bhoumik
BIO Smeetha Bhoumik is a poet, artist and the Founder of Women Empowered-India, a poetic forum for sharing ideas. Her recent poetry features in literary journals like Muse India, Indian Review, Neesah and will form part of an international anthology titled ‘Writing Language, Culture and Development, Africa Vs Asia Volume 1 Anthology’; and has also…
Usha Akella
BIO Usha Akella has authored three books of poetry, one chapbook, and scripted and produced one musical drama. She is pursuing a Masters in Creative Writing at Cambridge University, UK. She read with a group of eminent South Asian Diaspora poets at the House of Lords in June 2016. Her work has been included in…
Shanta Acharya
BIO Shanta Acharya, born and educated in Cuttack, India, won a scholarship to Oxford, and was among the first batch of women admitted to Worcester College in 1979. A recipient of the Violet Vaughan Morgan Fellowship, she was awarded the Doctor of Philosophy for her work on Ralph Waldo Emerson in 1983. She was a…
Taranand Viyogi: Translated by Prabhat Jha
BIO Taranand Viyogi is a Maithili writer who is known for his works in different genres. As a poet he has two collections of poems; Pralay Rahasya and Hastakshep. He also writes short stories and non fictions. His most famous book Tumi Chir Sarthi, is about his memories with one of the most famous…
Manprasad Subba: Translated by Manprasad Subba
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 and…
Subodh Sarkar: Translated by Jaydeep Sarangi
BIO Subodh Sarkar is one of the leading Bangla poets with more than thirty books. He is the recipient of the prestigious Central Sahitya Academy Award. He is the Chairman of Poetry Academy of West Bengal, Govt of West Bengal. He guest edited Indian Literature, New Delhi. BIO Jaydeep Sarangi is part of the Senior…
R Sangeetha: Translated by Ravi Shanker N
BIO R Sangeetha, resident of Changanacherry in Kottayam district, Kerala, is a teacher by profession. She holds a Masters degree in English Literature. First poetry collection published by dc books, Kerala, came out in August 2016 titled “Ottaykkoraal kadal varaykkunnu (A person sletching the sea alone)” BIO Ra Sh (Ravi Shanker N) has published English-language poems in…
K. Satchidanandan: Translated by K. Satchidanandan
BIO K. Satchidanandan is perhaps the most translated of contemporary Indian poets , having 27 collections of translation in 19 languages including Chinese, English, Irish, Arabic, French, German and Italian besides all the major Indian languages like Tamil, Bengali and Hindi. His books in English translation include While I Write: New and Selected Poems (Harper-Collins,…