Sayantani Dasgupta is the author of Fire Girl: Essays on India, America, & the In-Between--finalist for the 2016 Foreword Indies Award--and the chapbook The House of Nails: Memories of a New Delhi Childhood. She teaches at UNCW and has led writing workshops in India, Italy, Mexico, and the US.

Khem K. Aryal writes fiction and poetry. His fiction has appeared in such journals as Isthmus, Hawaii Pacific Review, Poydras Review, Northeast Review, and Warscapes. He is the author of two poetry books, Epic Teashop and Kathmandu Saga, and teaches creative writing at Arkansas State University.

Mildred K. Barya is assistant professor of creative writing and literature at UNC-Asheville and a board member of African Writers Trust (AWT) and has published three poetry books and short stories in various journals. She holds a PhD in English from the University of Denver and blogs on literary matters.

Aruni Kashyap is a writer, translator, and poet, author of The House with a Thousand Stories and His Father's Disease. He translates from the Indian language Assamese to English and is an assistant professor of creative writing at the University of Georgia.