Amritendu Ghosal [He/Him] teaches English at Anugrah Memorial College, Gaya. He has done his doctoral research (P.hD.) on Allen Ginsberg at Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi and worked as a Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant at Brown University, Providence, U.S.A. His poems have appeared in UCity Review, Mad Swirl, Visions, Shot Glass Journal, Tipton Poetry Journal, The Borderless Journal, The Sunflower Collective, among other places. His first collection of poems entitled Scribbles of a Dying Witness was published in April, 2023. When he is not working he loves interpreting films with his wife, taking long walks with his dog, and cooking.

Ankita Nair completed her PhD in the discipline of Humanities and Social Sciences from IIT Gandhinagar, where she worked on the recent transformations and challenges posed by modernity to the Kerala classical theatre, Kūṭiyāṭṭam. Her research interests include Indian literature, performing arts, and aesthetics. She is trained in Indian classical music, Bharatanāṭyam, and briefly in Naṅṅyārkūttu, the female solo form of Kūṭiyāṭṭam. She received the Gold Medal for Outstanding Performance in Arts and Culture for her contributions towards the promotion of art at IIT Gandhinagar. She is currently working with the ICH/UNESCO Cell, Sangeet Natak Akademi, Ministry of Culture.

Mekhala Chattopadhyay [She/Her] is a Doctoral Student at the English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad. She believes in the practice of the ambitious metaphor. She has been influenced by poets like Emily Dickinson, Sylvia Plath, Wislawa Symborzska, Lucille Clifton, Ilya Kaminsky and Ocean Vuong among many others. She looks at her life and her work as an inexhaustible site of discovery of the tenderness of language, the play of words and the flow of perception. Some of her poems have appeared in Cafe Dissensus, Hakara Bilingual and Sunflower Collective. She can be reached at cmekhala2013@gmail.com.

Nashra [She/Her] She is presently pursuing her PhD from Durham University in the UK. Her research work understands how the human brain perceives music. She is a passionate musician and a music educator. She has been a recording artist and a live performer who has sung at many events. She also likes to explore landscapes through her paintings and is interested in miniature sculpting.

Pragya Dev [She/Her] is a Research Scholar in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at IIT Roorkee. Her areas of interest include Health Humanities, Gender Studies, Diaspora Studies, Indian Literature in English, and Feminist Readings. Email id- pragya_d@hs.iitr.ac.in

Prashant [He/Him] is a Doctoral fellow at the Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar. More than writing, he takes pleasure in reading poetry. Some of his beloved poets include Kedarnath Singh, Rainer Maria Rilke, Louise Glück, Jorge Luis Borges, Faiz Ahmed Faiz and Octavio Paz. He finds himself captivated with poems that intersect myths, politics and philosophical ideas.

Prashant Tiwari [He/Him] is a Data Scientist and a Developer. His interest lies in financial data and natural language processing. He has also been a part of Google's "Woman Tech Maker" and trained more than 500 people on Data Science and Electronics. He thinks that most of the world's problem can be solved with the help of technology. His aim is to incorporate Data Science to find patterns in micro and macro things around him.

Ramesh Kumar Mahtha [He/Him] is a Doctoral Scholar at the Indian Institute of Technology, Indore. His area of interest lies in the Indian sensibilities and aesthetics of language in Indian English literature. Apart from being a scholar, his recreational involvement is reading poetry and creative writing. Poetry gives him ample space to make room for diverse cultural and spiritual permutations.

Shyam Sundar Pal [He/Him] is a Senior Research Fellow and Teaching Assistant in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology Indore. His research interest broadly lies in the films of Satyajit Ray, Bengali short stories, and Adaptation Studies. He finds joy in captivating the socio-contemporary realities in his creative writings(primarily in short stories). His academic and creative writings got published in reputed platforms.

Srestha Chakraborty [They/She] is a disabled neuroqueer visual artist pursuing doctoral studies in social neuroaesthetics at the University of Vienna. They view art as an essential agent of sociopolitical transformation. Their art incorporates minimalist aesthetics, botanicals, written words, natural landscapes, and abstracts. Amrita Sher-Gil, Gaganendranath Tagore, Jamini Roy, Katsushika Hokusai, Wassily Kandinsky, Frida Kahlo, Claude Monet, and Vincent van Gogh are some of their favourite artists. They are also a singer, occasional santoor player, cinephile, and lover of vintage academia aesthetics.

Subhankar Dutta [He/Him] an alumnus of Banaras Hindu University and Midnapore College, is currently a Senior Research Fellow in the Dept. of HSS, IIT Bombay. He is a senior academic editor of the international journal New Literaria. His academic and creative works appeared in Taylor and Francis, Rupkatha, Visual Ethnography and others. His co-edited anthology of poetry Musings on Pandemic (2021) is out from Authorspress. He has been an ICSSR Research Associate and recipient of Letter of Excellence from Environmental Humanities Centre (Amsterdam) for creative writing. He seeks interest in Performance, Poetry, Theatre, and Creative Writing. For more, https://subhankarduttas.wordpress.com/

Uzma Sarwat [She/Her] is a cognitive science and psychology graduate. She identifies herself as a poetry enthusiast who writes occasionally. Her poems have been published on web portals and print magazines such as Anhad Kolkata, Aura Magazine, Kanti, and Chatr Vimarsh. Some of her poems have also been critiqued in a review book titled 'Kavita ka Dhaga' by Shahanshah Alam. She believes poetry is the only genre of literature that transcends the boundary of language in its impact. Poets like Mahmoud Darwish, Agha Shahid Ali, Alok Dhanwa, Kedarnath Singh, Mirza Ghalib, Faiz Ahmed Faiz, Shubha, and Parveen Shakir have deeply influenced her poetic sensibility and creative expression.

Vidisha Bagul [She/Her] is a research scholar at the department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Bombay. She holds a Post-graduate diploma in the Teaching of English from The English and Foreign Languages University (EFLU), Hyderabad and has had a long stint in teaching the English language and literature to UG and Junior College students. She has the penchant for capturing poignancy through words, combined with meticulous attention to detail. She seeks interest in performance, poetry, aesthetics, and other creative art forms. She spends her leisure time exploring, both inward and outward.