Swapnamoy Chakraborty’s work is both critically acclaimed and well-received by readers. Holud Golap is a seminal, monumental work about the LGBT community and its relationship with larger society. Here is a short story translated from the Bengali by Shamita Das Dasgupta.
Deb Bandyopadhyay is a scientist and a student of poetry. Deb’s poems portrait vivid imagery of scattered pieces of his life in distant continents.
Mia Lecomte is an Italian poet and writer of French origin. Author of many publications, her poems have been translated into several languages and appear in Italy as well as abroad in magazines and collections. A translator from French, Mia Lecomte is especially known as critic and editor in the field of transnational literature
Adrian Bravi’s four short stories are instead teeming with a more homogeneous chorus of protagonists – gangs of children inhabiting poor neighborhoods in a small town in Argentina. The glue that holds together their esprit de corps is a childlike imaginative misreading of and sometimes contempt for the adult world, which leads them to exercise their power as a group by tormenting or further excluding marginalized people in their community.
Ishrat Tania is a poet and writer from Bangladesh. Her literary work revolves around perceptions and thoughts about human relations, despair, dreams, nature, transcendence, society and politics. Her published books in Bengali include Nemeche Ichche Niribili (2016), Beejpurush (2018), Mad Ek Swarnava Shishir (2020), Alaper Amphitheater (2020).
A sceince fiction by Andrew Joron openes up at the world Hurth that does not turn, but is forever divided into Dayside and Nightside. Pastoral tribes wander across the snowy fields of Dayside under a cold blue sun that never changes its position in the sky. By mythic coincidence, all tribes simultaneously arrive at the gates of Lunagrad, an automated city.
Trishna Basak is a poet, writer and translator with many books to her credit. Her story is translated from the Bengali by Shamita Das Dasgupta.
Mark Putzi received an MA in Creative Writing from the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee in 1990. He has published fiction and poetry in numerous online and print venues.
Joey Rodriguez is the author of four novels and two novellas. Recently, his short stories appeared in Fleas on the Dog, In Parentheses, The Cabinet of Heed, Punt Volat, Plants & Poetry, and Baram House.
Warren Stoddard II Is the author of a novella: No Birds in Yesterday, and his short work has appeared in Into the Void, Dice Magazine, The Barely South Review, and numerous other publications.