contributors

Amit Majmudar newest novels in India are The Map and the Scissors (HarperCollins India, 2022), a historical novel about the rivalry between Jinnah and Gandhi, and Heroes the Colour of Dust (Puffin India, 2022), a children's book. A memoir will be released in the United States, Twin A (Slant Books, 2022), as well as an epic retelling to be released in India, The Mahabharata Trilogy (Penguin India, 2023).

Ari Sitas is a poet, dramatist and sociologist who is also involved lately in musical work in and around the Indian Ocean. His first poetry collection "Tropical Scars" was published in 1989 and has subsequently seen another 7 volumes published, the last of which was a poetic dialogue with Bengali poet Subhro Bandopadhyay titled "Mapping Gondwana" which appeared this year.His work has been translated into many languages. Some of his Sociological and creative work has been published by Tulika Press in India. His latest production was the staging of "Giraffe Humming" a musical and visual reconstruction of the tale of the move of three giraffes from Africa to Bengal and then to China in 1414CE. He has been awarded the Order of Mapungubwe, by the South African presidency in 2019 for his contribution to scientific and creative work.

Celerina Patricia Sánchez Santiago was born in Mesón de Guadalupe, Oaxaca. She is a poet, storyteller, and promoter of Ñuu savi (Mixtec) culture. She holds a BA in Linguistics from the Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia, and has published a number of books and poetry collections-albums, among them Inií/Ichí (Pluralia, 2013) and Tasu yùùtì/Águila de arena (Oralibrura, 2021). In 2019 she was recognized by Oaxaca’s legislature for her outstanding work preserving and strengthening Indigenous languages in Oaxaca.

Hubert Matiúwàa (Guerreo, México, 1986) has a degree in Philosophy and Literature from the Autonomous University of Guerrero (UAGro), another in Creative Writing from the Autonomous University of México City (UACM), and an MA in Latin American Studies from the Autonomous National University of México (UNAM). In 2016 he won the “Premio en Lenguas Originarias Cenzontle,” in 2017 the fifth “Premio de Literaturas Indígrnas de América” (PLIA), and the “Premio Estatal de Poesía Joven del Estado de Guerrero.” He is the author of Xtámbaa/Piel de Tierra (Pluralia Ediciones/Secretaría de Cultura, México, 2016), Tsína rí nàyaxà'/ Cicatriz que te mira (Pluralia Ediciones/Secretaría de Cultura de la CDMX, México, 2017), Las Sombrereras de Tsítsídiín, (INALI/Universidad de Guadalajara, México, 2018), Cordel Torcido/Mañuwìín (Universidad de Guadalajara/Departamento de Estudios en Lenguas Indígenas, México, 2018) y Mbo Xtá rídà/Gente piel/Skin people, (Gusanos de Memoria/Ícaro ediciones, México, 2020). He is the founder of the collaborative “Gusanos de la Memoria” cultural project.

Paul M. Worley (1976, Charleston, USA) is Associate Professor of Global Literature at Western Carolina University. Co-written with Rita M. Palacios, his most recent book,  Unwriting Maya Literature: Ts’íib as Recorded Knowledge (2019), was given an honorable mention for Best Book in the Humanities by LASA’s Mexico Section. A Fulbright Scholar and 2018 winner of the Sturgis Leavitt Award from the Southeastern Council on Latin American Studies, he has also translated selected works by Indigenous authors such as Hubert Malina, Adriana López, Manuel Tzoc, and Ruperta Bautista.

S. Bharat is an archivist and writer, currently based at the French Institute of Pondicherry.

Sharmistha Mohanty is the author of three works of prose, Book One, New Life and Five Movements in Praise. Her work pushes the boundaries of fictional prose, moving it towards the prose poem. Mohanty’s writing has been deeply impacted by the varied pasts of India, especially the most remote, and her work claims these pasts as contemporary, as a belief in time being untamed. Her writing holds the past and the now and the experimental equally, where varied elements move towards or away from each other with a great velocity and each compositional framework is created anew. Her most recent work is a book of poems, The Gods Came Afterwards, Speaking Tiger Books, Nov. 2019.

Souradeep Roy is a writer, translator and academic. He is currently working on a play based on the 1943-44 Bengal famine, How to Make Rice which is due to premiere in London in 2022. His earlier play and translation, A Brief Loss of Sanity, was published in the bilingual journal Kaurab. He is also working on his PhD at Queen Mary, University of London, where he is writing a history of the Bengal unit of the Indian Peoples' Theatre Association in the 1940s and the group theatre movement thereafter.

Vahni (Anthony Ezekiel) Capildeo FRSL is a Trinidadian Scottish writer of poetry and non-fiction. Capildeo's eight books and eight pamphlets include Like a Tree, Walking (Carcanet, November 2021) and The Dusty Angel (Oystercatcher, 2021). Their interests include plurilingualism, traditional masquerade, and multidisciplinary collaboration. They are Writer in Residence and Professor at the University of York, a Visiting Scholar at Pembroke College, Cambridge, and an Honorary Student of Christ Church, Oxford.