Ronica (Bhattacharya) Dhar is a writer, educator and amateur letterpress printer working in Detroit, Michigan, USA. She authored two novels inspired largely by her Bengali and Kashmiri heritage: BIJOU ROY (St. Martin’s Press) and the recently completed NONAH IN SEARCH OF NIRVANA.
Ellen June Wright is a poet based in Hackensack, New Jersey. Her poetry has most recently been published in River Mouth Review, Santa Fe Writers Project, New York Quarterly, The Elevation Review, The Caribbean Writer.
Ashley Renselaer is an author, poet, and artist from Culver City, CA who attends high school at Windward School. Ashley has founded and serves as Editor-in-Chief of Words & Whispers Literary Journal.
Saptarshi Bhowmick is a thinker in his twenties, currently lives in Berhampore, India. Previously Published in The Rainbow Poems, UK’s Remembrance Editio, Tofu Ink Arts Press Spring Edition, Finalist of the Bipoc Issue of Wingless Dreamers.
Mario Urquiza Montemayor is from Mexico and writes in Spanish. His poems has been published in magazines from Spain, Venezuela, Czech Republic, Mexico, Peru and Germany.
Abdellatif Laâbi is a Moroccan poet, novelist and translator. He has received numerous awards and honors both in France and abroad, including the Gongourt Prize for poetry in 2009 and the Grand Prix de la francophonie in 2011.
Gale Acuff is the author of three poetry collections. He has taught university English courses in the US, China, and Palestine, where he currently teaches at Arab American University.
Achintya Kumar Sengupta (born 19 September 1903 – 29 January 1976) was an Indian Bengali-language writer. He started writing under a pen name, ‘Niharika Debi’. He contributed to almost all genres of Bengali literature, but is best remembered for his novels and short stories. In all, he wrote more than 100 books. Sengupta was closely associated with the famous magazine Kallol, and was its editor for some time.
Gökçenur Ç. writes an intensely lyrical poetry shot through with startling imagery and oblique observations of daily life. To date he has published six books of his own poetry and many more of translations of world poetry.
Helen Meneilly is an Irish poet from Belfast. Her work explores themes of identity, mental health, language and feminism.