Ruth Vanita is currently professor at the University of Montana, and was founding co-editor of Manushi. She is the author of several books, including Gender, Sex and the City: Urdu Rekhti Poetry in India, 1780-1870 and Gandhi’s Tiger and Sita’s Smile: Essays on Gender, Culture and Sexuality; and a well-known translator of fiction and poetry from Hindi to English.
K. Srilata is a poet, fiction writer, translator and Professor of English at IIT Madras. Her books include four poetry collections, Bookmarking the Oasis (2015); Writing Octopus (2013); Arriving S
N. Ravi Shanker lives and works in Palakkad, and regularly translates from Malayalam and Tamil into English. He is the translator of Mother Forest: The Unfinished Story of C.K. Janu (2004).
Ather Zia is a political anthropologist, poet, columnist, and short fiction writer. She teaches at the University of Northern Colorado Greeley. Ather is founder-editor of Kashmir Lit and co-founder
