Jafreen Uddin
Jafreen Uddin is the Executive Director of the Asian American Writers’ Workshop. She is the first woman to lead the […]
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Rajni Shankar-Brown
Dr. Rajni Shankar-Brown is an internationally recognized educator, scholar, dancing poet, artist, and activist whose work bridges creativity, healing, and
Srinivas Reddy
Srinivas Reddy is an Indian scholar, translator, and musician whose work bridges the worlds of classical learning and contemporary interpretation.
Inderjeet Mani
An Indian-born former U.S. professor and scientist, Mani has held research roles at Cambridge, MIT, and the Indian Institute of
Laxmi Mali
Laxmi Mali is a Nepali poet, educator, and literary activist. She served as Head of the Mother Tongue Literature Department
Shilpa Dikshit Thapliyal
Born in Varanasi, raised in Pune, and now writing from Singapore, Shilpa Dikshit Thapliyal inhabits the in-between—where languages blur and
Jami Proctor Xu
Jami Proctor Xu （徐贞敏）is a bilingual poet, essayist, translator and mother who writes in Chinese and English. Her poems and translations have
Kavita A. Jindal
Kavita A. Jindal is an award-winning Indian-British author who writes across genres. Her novel Manual For A Decent Life (Linen Press)
Stephanie Green
Stephanie Green is a poet, essayist, biographer and short story writer, widely published in Australian and international journals, including Meniscus, StylusLit, Axon, TEXT, and Live Encounters, and in anthologies
Dmitry Legeza
Dmitry Legeza is a poet, a member of the Union of Russian Writers and the Union of Writers of St.