Stefan Markovski

Stefan Markovski is a contemporary Macedonian writer, poet, screenwriter and philosopher. Born in the town of Gevgelija, he’s the chief editor of the oldest Macedonian literary magazine – Sovremenost as well as the poetry collections of the project Metric Caravan. Markovski’s contribution to modern Macedonian literature has granted him literary prizes and honors in his country, including the “Macedonian Literary Avant-garde” for a book of short stories, Petre M. Andreevski, prize for novel, BeliMugri, for a poetry book, KrsteChachanski, among others.

T. Kilgore Splake

T Kilgore Splake from Calumet, Michigan, has become a legend in the small press circles for his writing and photography. His most recent poetry collection is Entropy, and his new book Final Curtain is currently being printed at Gage Press in Battle Creek.

Shrijana Subba

Shrijana Subba is a writer from Darjeeling and is currently based in Kolkata, India. She started writing poetry after falling in love with the works of Sylvia Plath and Kamala Das. Her short story, “Anathema, or I No Longer Dream,” has received an honorable mention in Wingword Story Competition.

Sanjeev Sethi

Sanjeev Sethi has authored eight books of poetry. His poems have been published in over thirty-five countries and appear in more than 500 journals, anthologies, and online literary venues. He is the joint winner of the Full Fat Collection Competition-Deux, organized by the Hedgehog Poetry Press, UK. He lives in Mumbai.

Samuel Strathman

Samuel Strathman is a Jewish/Canadian poet and educator who was diagnosed with a non-verbal learning dis/ability at the age of seven. Some of his poems are forthcoming in The Elixir Magazine, the Chaudiere Books’ blog, and Talking about Strawberries All of the Time. He lives in Toronto, Ontario.

Rituparna Bishnu

Rituparna Khan is an Assistant Professor in Bidhannagar College, Salt Lake, Kolkata. She is a Geographer by profession, dealing with anything and everything from natural to human phenomena based on a spatial dimension. However, her inclination to Literature, especially poetry is no less. She has received an award from Inter Cultural Poetry and Performance Library (IPPL) for participating in a Rhyme Competition, and received the Reuel International Award for Best Upcoming Writers in Poetry, 2019.

Preetinicha Barman

Preetinicha Barman (1982) is an educator, a poet and a Classical Manipuri dancer. She teaches English Literature at Women’s College, Shillong. She has conducted research on the plays of Girish Karnad and the novels of Orhan Pamuk, for which she has been awarded M. Phil. and Ph. D. degrees respectively. She has published her poems in reputed poetry journals like, Muse India, Peregrine Muse etc. Barman writes poems in English, Assamese and Rajbanshi, her native dialect, as well as translates Rajbanshi poems into English. Aiyor Photok is the collection of her self-composed poems in Rajbanshi. She has also published a number of articles in many journals and book volumes.

Partha Chatterjee

Partha has nothing to say about himself, except that he loves poetry. He believes that a poet is a human who is but the manifestation of hues.

Michael Prihoda

Michael Prihoda lives in central Indiana. He is the founding editor of After the Pause, an experimental literary magazine and small press. He is the author of nine poetry collections, most recently Out of the Sky (Hester Glock, 2019).

Michael Hanner

Michael Hanner is an architect in Eugene, Oregon, USA. His poems are found in Timberline Review, Gargoyle, Southern Humanities Review, Rhino, Nimrod, Mudfish and others. His recent books are October, Adriatica and, under the moniker Forbisher Mandangle, a French guide book, Le Bugue, Black Périgord & Beyond. His other interests are: gardening, travel, English croquet, French cooking and Argentine tango.

Md Mujib Ullah

Md Mujib Ullah is an Assistant Editor of the Blue Tiger Review (A Journal of the UM-SJTU JI), and currently a PhD student of English Language and Literature at the Shanghai Jiao Tong University. His poetry and translation have been appeared or forthcoming in Poem (Routledge), Postcolonial Text (OHP), Galaxy , Blue Tiger Review, FreeXpresSion, Tuck Magazine & elsewhere. His academic research interests cover a wide range of area including Comparative and World Literature, Creative Writing, Globalization and Cultural Studies, Criticism, Media, and Translation. He is a member of Modern Humanities Research Association (MHRA), International Pragmatics Association (IPrA), The International Society for the Linguistics of English (ISLE) & Teaching and Education Research Association (TERA).

Mark J Mitchell

Mark J. Mitchell was born in Chicago and grew up in southern California. His latest poetry collection, Starting from Tu Fu, will published by Encircle Publications in September. He is fond of baseball, Miles Davis, Kafka and Dante. He lives in San Francisco with his wife, the activist and documentarian, Joan Juster, where he makes his meager living pointing out pretty things. Mark has published two novels and three chapbooks and two full-length collections so far.