Angshuman Kar

Angshuman Kar, a Bengali poet and novelist, is Professor of English at The University of Burdwan, West Bengal. He was also the Secretary of Sahitya Akademi, Eastern Region. Kar is the recipient of several prestigious awards, including Paschim Banga Bangla Akademi Puraskar, Krittibas Award and Bangiya Sahitya Parishad Puroskar. He has read his poems in Scotland, Germany, America and Bangladesh. Wound is the Shelter is a collection of his poems translated into English.

Akshaya Kumar

Prof. Akshaya Kumar is Sarojini Naidu Chair professor at Panjab University, Chandigarh. He received special critical attention for his books Poetry, Politics and Culture and Cultural Studies in India — both published by Routledge. He has recently translated Sudeep Sen’s poetry into Punjabi. His areas of study and research include Comparative Indian Poetry and Cultural Theory.

Ramesh Karthik Nayak

Ramesh Karthik Nayak is a bilingual poet and short-story writer from Telangana. Nayak is known as one of the pioneering writers in Telugu literature to depict the lifestyle of the Banjaras. Nayak has won the Kalahamsa Kavitha Puraskaram, Tribal Young Achievers Award from the Telangana state government, Banjara Youth Icon Award, Ravi Sastri Katha Puraskaram, and several other awards. He is the recipient of the Sahitya Akademi Yuva Puraskar in Telugu for 2024.

Arundhati Subramaniam

Arundhati Subramaniam is a leading Indian poet and author of fourteen books of poetry and prose. Her recent work includes the poetry volume, Love Without a Story; the Penguin anthology of female mystic poetry, Wild Women; and a prose work on contemporary women on spiritual journeys, Women Who Wear Only Themselves. A recipient of the Sahitya Akademi Award for Poetry 2020, and shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize for Poetry 2015, her awards include the Mahakavi Kanhaiyalal Sethia Award for Poetry, the inaugural Khushwant Singh Poetry Prize, the Il Ceppo Prize in Italy, the Raza Award for Poetry, the Mystic Kalinga Award, the Charles Wallace and Homi Bhabha fellowships, among others. She has been active as curator, performing arts critic and poetry editor of the India domain of the Poetry International Web. She divides her time between Mumbai, Chennai and New York.

Basab Mondal

Basab Mondal is a teacher by profession. He is from Kolkata. He is a bilingual poet and columnist who writes in English and Bengali. His poems , stories and translations have appeared in several anthologies and literary magazines of national and international repute. He writes to gratify his own inner self and the world around him serves as the cue.

Chirantan Sarkar

Chirantan Sarkar is the author of three books of poems in Bengali: ‘Niralok’(2009), ‘Adhkhana Chand’(2016) and ‘Chidakas O Daliya Pataka’(2022). He is the co-editor of ‘Astrik’, a Bengali journal on poetry and aesthetics. His English poems were published in ‘Asian Signature’ and ‘Critical and Creative Wings’.

Chirashree Indrasingh

Lt. Chirashree Indrasingh has 11 short story collections and three anthologies of poems to her credit. One of her anthologies, Saree, weaves together 34 poems that capture the myriad modes and modalities of women, intricately expressed through the timeless elegance of the saree. Chirashree has also translated Bhalchandra Nemade’s Kosala, Namita Gokhale’s Things to Leave Behind and Jayanta Mahapatra’s Sky without Sky (Puri poems) into Odia. She is a reader in Political Science and lives in Bhubaneswar.

Dhananjay Singh

Dhananjay Singh teaches at the Centre for English Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, and is currently the Member Secretary of the Indian Council of Social Science Research, New Delhi.His research and teaching are focused on aesthetics, philosophy of language, comparative literature, English poetry, and modern Irish literature. His columns have appeared in The Indian Express, The Times of India, The Pioneer, and The Sunday Guardian. His poems have been published in Muse India. His debut short story “The Train and the Tunnel” was published in The Bombay Review. Recently, his poem “Farewell to My Father” was published in Gifts of Rain, an anthology commemorating the great Indian Poet Jayant Mahapatra, edited by Ashwani Kumar. He is currently working on his debut short story collection.

K. V. Raghupathi

A former academic, poet, novelist, short story writer, book reviewer, and cultural critic, K.V. Raghupathi, writes in English. He has published thirteen poetry collections, two short story collections, two novels, eight critical works, and over forty book reviews in his four decades of writing career. Recipient of several national awards for his creativity, he lives in Tirupati (India) and can be reached at drkvraghupathi9@gmail.com

Gopal Lahiri

Gopal Lahiri is a bilingual poet, critic, editor, writer, and translator with 29 books published, (10 books in Bengali and 19 books in English) including six solo/jointly edited books and two joint books. His poetry and prose are published across more than 70 anthologies as well as in eminent journals of India and abroad. His poems are translated in 16 languages and published in 14 countries. He has been nominated for Pushcart Prize for poetry in 2021, He has received Setu Excellence award, Pittsburgh, US in poetry. His recent collection of poems ‘Alleys are Filled with Future Alphabets.’ has received Pan Asian Ukiyoto awards in 2022.

Moinak Dutta

Moinak Dutta is a teacher by profession and a poet and fiction writer, having two published fictions to his credit. Several poems and short stories written by him have found their way in national and international magazines and journals. He got ‘ Bharat Award’ for his short story and also ‘ Get Bengal Award’ for his stories. He lives in Kolkata.

Maitreyee B. Chowdhury

Maitreyee B. Chowdhury is a poet and writer. She has four books to her credit, The Hungryalists , One Dozen-Hasan Azizul Huq( Trans) , Uttam Kumar and Suchitra Sen- Bengali Cinema’s First Couple and Where Even The Present Is Ancient: Benaras. She is editor of The Bangalore Review, a literary journal. Maitreyee’s forthcoming work is centered around the eccentric genius poet Binoy Majumdar. Her interest areas are in mapping migration related stories from the North East of India, and ethnomycology. She can be found at https://www.maitreyeechowdhury.com/