Ansar Uddin is from West Bengal, India. His connection with farming and farm labor runs deep. He has five collection of short stories and three novels to his name thus far. Translated from the Bengali by Bishnupriya Chowdhuri.
Allison Whittenberg is a Philadelphia native and her novels include Sweet Thang, Hollywood and Maine, Life is Fine, Tutored and The Sane Asylum.
Gillian Wills is an author and arts writer from Brisbane, Australia. Her memoir Elvis and Me: How a world-weary musician and a broken racehorse rescued each other was published in 2016.
J.T. Townley has published in Harvard Review, The Kenyon Review, The Three penny Review, and many other magazines and journals. His stories have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize (three times) and the Best of the Net Award.
Prativa Sarkar is mostly known for her short stories and political essays. She has a collection of short stories based on subaltern crises – “Farishta O Meyera.”
Maushumi is a composer, storyteller, translator, online activist and one of the editors of ‘Galpapath’ webzine.
Peter Ngila Njeri is a failed journalist and the co-author (with Isabell Kempf) of Changing the World While Changing Diapers. Peter is currently admiring yet another draft of The Visitation of Room Seventeen, his debut full-length novel manuscript.
Mahdi Ahmadian his from Urmia, a city in north-western Iran. His novella, When We All Died, has been published in Iran by Rowzaneh Nashr. His writing has appeared in Typehouse Literary Magazine, Lunch Ticket and Forum for World Literature Studies.
Mia Lecomte is an Italian poet and writer of French origin. Author of many publications, her works have been translated into several languages.
Whereas the silence that eliminated objects leave behind, the cool air of the silent place they have ceased to occupy, is the most relaxing thing one can savor in this world. Cool, silent. Emptiness.