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Apara Sharma

Apara Sharma (aka Aparajita Sharma) is a New York–based, multi-talented graphic designer and illustrator with a passion for storytelling that bridges the visual and the written word. She earned her master's degree from Maryland Institute College of Art and a Bachelors Degree from the University of Pittsburgh.

With a background in both fine arts and communication, she brings a unique perspective to her work. Her experience ranges from creating engaging digital content for multi-channel campaigns to spearheading the design and illustration for games and puzzles. This diverse background showcases her ability to not only create beautiful imagery but also to think conceptually, developing and executing a full creative vision from start to finish. Apara's work is characterized by thoughtful use of color and typography, making her a compelling artist for any literary project.

She is the 2013-2014 Diversity Expression Contest Winner and a 2014 Pittsburgh Region Scholastic Art Award winner. She has created cover art of a few books including Paco's Atlas by John Thieme, published by Setu. She won a contest to design the Seasons Greeting card for Omni William Penn Hotel in Pittsburgh, PA.

Web: https://www.aparasharma.com/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aparadraws/

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Sankha Ranjan Patra

Sankha Ranjan Patra is a poet and author. He belongs to India. He writes in English, Bengali and Hindi. His published books are Muse, Mute, All About Love and Borsha. Muse and Mute are poetry books in English. All About Love is a novel in English. Borsha is a poetry book in Bengali. He has contributed for many anthologies and magazines. He has been honoured by different literary societies.

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Cynthia Sharp

Cynthia Sharp is the author of Ordinary Light, a first-prize winner in the SCWES Book Awards as well as in the International Book Impact Awards in the Poetry and Sustainability categories, Rainforest in Russet and The Light Bearers in the Sand Dollar Graviton. Her poetry, fiction and creative nonfiction can be found in many literary journals including CV2, Toasted Cheese, untethered and The Pitkin Review, while her dramatic work has been performed throughout North America. She was a long-time member and independent film producer at Video In Studios in Vancouver where she taught screenwriting, storyboarding and editing and assisted with numerous independent productions. She holds an MFA in creative writing and an Honors BA in literature.

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Marjorie Pezzoli

Marjorie Pezzoli is a poet, visual artist and silk painter. Her writings cover all emotions from grief to joy. During these absurd times she finds reasons to laugh. Since 2019 her writings have been curated in printed anthologies and online publications. Palabra: Open Mic, San Diego Poetry Annual, A Year in Ink, Heterodox Haiku, Dadakuku, Setu Journal, Starbeck Orion, and others. Guest Editor for the Pattern section of The Body Politic, Nun Prophet Press. Marjorie’s muses include a visiting peacock and Beau, the dog with Betty Davis eyes.

www.PezzoliArt.com
https://thecosmicgumballmachine.substack.com/publish/posts

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Ritu Kamra Kumar

Dr. Ritu Kamra Kumar, Retd. Officiating Principal and Associate Professor of English at MLN College, Yamuna Nagar, is an acclaimed academician, poet, and writer. With over 400 contributions to leading national newspapers and magazines, she has published 70+ research papers in reputed national and international journals and edited books. A noted resource person and speaker, she has led workshops and panel discussions nationwide, including at the Delhi Book Fair 2024. Honored by the District Administration and featured as an Empowered Woman by The Hindustan Times, she is a recipient of the Indian Woman Achiever Award and authored eight acclaimed books.

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Damayanti Bhattacharya

Year 2025 - Damayanti Bhattacharya studies in Class Seven at Chaitanya Techno School, Panihati, West Bengal, India. She loves to write fiction, play the keyboard, sing Indian classical music and draw landscapes.

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Irene Emanuel

Irene Aarons (Pen-name: Irene Emanuel)

Born: 07-11-1943, in Johannesburg. Lived in Durban, now lives in Port Elizabeth.

Winner of the “Hilde Slinger” cup for poetry in 2009 and again in 2013, winner of the “Fay Goldie” cup for General Success in the World of Publishing in 2011. These awards were presented by the South African Writers” Circle.

In 2008, Nine of my poems were published in “Signatures” an anthology of Women's poetry. I represented "Live Poets' Society in "Poetry Africa" in 2008. In 2006, "A Scorpion Sings" first anthology published. Other anthologies published between 2006 and 2015 are "Count Catula of Shadoland & Friends", " A Peace of Me" and "A Scorpion Sings Again."

I have also been published in other notable journals, such as:

1) Agenda Issue on Gender based violence

2) Poems for Haiti Edited by Amitabh Mitra

3) Unbreaking the Rainbow---voices of protest from new South Africa edited by A. Mitra

4) New Contrast South African Literary Journal

5) Fidelities Contemporary South African poetry

6) Speech and Drama Association of South Africa Suggested poems for schools.

Also, poems published in assorted magazines, journals and on my Face book page.

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Joan Leotta

Joan Leotta plays with words on page and stage. She performs tales of food, family, strong women. Internationally published as an essayist, poet, short story writer, and novelist, she’s a two-tie Pushcart and Best of the Net nominee, and was a 2022 runner-up in Robert Frost Competition. Her essays, poems, CNF, and fiction appear in Impspired, Ekphrastic Review, Setu, Verse Visual, Verse Virtual, Gargoyle, Silver Birch, Yellow Mama, Fictive Dream, Mystery Tribune, Ovunquesiamo, Synkroniciti, MacQueen’s Quinterly and many others. Her poetry chapbooks are Languid Lusciousness with Lemon, and Feathers on Stone.

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Avantika Vijay Singh

Avantika Vijay Singh is a writer, editor, poet, researcher, and photographer. She is the author of two solo poetry books i.e., Flowing… in the river of life and Dancing Motes of Starlight (her debut ebook). She is the winner of the Nissim International Award Runner Up 2023 and has been published in national and international journals. She also writes the blog “Ordinary People, Extraordinary Lives” in the Times of India.

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Fhen M.

Fhen M. studied the academic subjects Writing in the Discipline, 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘓𝘪𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘗𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘱𝘱𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴, and The Literature of the World at Eastern Visayas State University. His Waray poem “Uyasan” (“Toy” in English”) was published in a collection of literary works entitled 𝘗𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘭𝘪: 15 𝘠𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘓𝘢𝘮𝘪𝘳𝘢𝘸. His English verses appeared in 𝘗𝘰𝘦𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘢 anthology series published by Clarendon House, including "Lighthouse," “Seaport,” “January Constellations,” among others. Red Penguin Books’ 𝘈𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘛𝘪𝘮𝘦: 𝘈 𝘊𝘰𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘨-𝘰𝘧-𝘈𝘨𝘦 𝘗𝘰𝘦𝘵𝘳𝘺 𝘈𝘯𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘺 will publish his piece “Outside the Block Universe". His poem “Sea Snail” will also be included in 𝘍𝘭𝘰𝘳𝘢/𝘍𝘢𝘶𝘯𝘢 𝘈𝘯𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘺 by Open Shutter Press. Fhen M. submitted verses in Waray for the 5th Lamiraw Creative Writing Workshop, including the 𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘢𝘺 “Duha nga mga pagtug-an” (translated in English as “Two confessions”). David Genotiva, Merlie Alunan, and Victor Sugbo were some of the distinguished panelists of this writing workshop held from the 5th to the 7th of November 2008. His Binisaya poems “To View the World,” “Those who were Left in Cancabatoc,” and other verses won the 1st Chito Roño Literary Awards.

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ब्रजेश कृष्ण

29, अगस्त 1945 को मऊरानीपुर (झाँसी) उत्तर प्रदेश में जन्म।

प्राचीन भारतीय इतिहास, संस्कृति एवं पुरातत्त्व में एम ए, पी-एच डी। कुरुक्षेत्र विश्वविद्यालय में प्राध्यापक, विभागाध्यक्ष के पद से सेवानिवृत्त।

एक कविता संग्रह ‘जो राख होने से बचे हैं अभी तक’ प्रकाशित।

विभिन्न साहित्यिक पत्र-पत्रिकाओं में कविताएँ प्रकाशित। अंग्रेज़ी से हिन्दी में कहानियों और लेखों के अनुवाद।

पता: 1348, सेक्टर-5, अर्बन एस्टेट, कुरुक्षेत्र (हरियाणा)-136 118

चलभाष: 094161-06707

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Baijnath Gupta

Dr. Baijnath Gupta is Associate Professor and Head, Department of English, DSN Postgraduate College, Unnao (Affiliated to CSJM University, Kanpur). He has edited an Anthology of Poems and has contributed thirty one research papers/articles to various National and International journals and edited books. Some of his poems have found spaces in such prestigious journals as Setu Bilingual Journal (published from Pittsburgh, USA), Creative Saplings and The Wise Owl. He has also contributed some poems to some anthologies including "The Silent Syllables of the Heart" edited by Orbindu Ganga. Moreover, he has also published a book of poems titled "Echoes of a Sensitive Heart".

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Malashri Lal

Malashri Lal, writer and academic, with twenty four books, retired as Professor, English Department, University of Delhi. Publications include Tagore and the Feminine, and The Law of the Threshold: Women Writers in Indian English. Co-edited with Namita Gokhale is the ‘goddess trilogy’, and also Betrayed by Hope: A Play on the Life of Michael Madhusudan Dutt which received the Kalinga Fiction Award. Lal’s poems Mandalas of Time has recently been translated into Hindi as Mandal Dhwani. She is currently Convener, English Advisory Board of the Sahitya Akademi. Honours include the prestigious ‘Maharani Gayatri Devi Award for Women’s Excellence’.

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Staffy Bhateja

Staffy Bhateja (Pen Name: Steffi) is an award-winning poet, editor and exhibited painter hailing from the City Beautiful-Chandigarh. She is the Chapter Head of Chandigarh of The Asian Literary Society. As a writer, she has taken part in numerous anthologies under various publishing houses and has solely edited a book titled “Catharsis” under The Impish Lass Publishing House. Her poem on the Taj Mahal was awarded the Certificate of Excellence in the Asian Literary Society's Annual Wordsmith Awards Contest 2023 (Poetry Segment) and her poetry piece titled 'It Is Poetry!' bagged the second position in the same contest in 2024.

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Sreelekha Chatterjee

Sreelekha Chatterjee is a poet from New Delhi, India. Her poems have appeared in Madras Courier, Setu, Raw Lit, Pena Literary Magazine, Porch Literary Magazine, Verse-Virtual, The Wise Owl, Ghudsavar Literary Magazine, Orenaug Mountain Poetry Journal, Poetry Catalog, Suburban Witchcraft Magazine, Poems for Tomorrow, Fevers of the Mind, Medusa’s Kitchen, Everscribe, The Literary Times, Ukiyo Literary Magazine, and in the anthologies—Light & Dark (Bitterleaf Books, UK), Personal Freedom, The Harvest & the Reaping, Winter Glimmerings, and Whose Spirits Touch (Orenaug Mountain Publishing, USA), and Christmas-Winter Anthology Volume 4 (Black Bough Poetry, Wales, UK).

Facebook: facebook.com/sreelekha.chatterjee.1/, X (formerly Twitter): @sreelekha001, Instagram @sreelekha2023

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ऋतु त्यागी

जन्म: 1 फरवरी

सम्प्रति: पी.जी.टी हिंदी केंद्रीय विद्यालय एनटीपीसी बदरपुर

रचनाएँ: विभिन्न पत्र-पत्रिकाओं में कविताएँ तथा कहानियाँ प्रकाशित

पुस्तकें: कुछ लापता ख़्वाबों की वापसी, समय की धुन पर, मुझे पतंग हो जाना है तथा तितलियों के शहर में (काव्य संग्रह),एक स्कर्ट की चाह(कहानी संग्रह)

पता: 45 ग्रेटर गंगा, गंगानगर, मेरठ

सेतु, जनवरी 2025

Radha Chakravarty

Radha Chakravarty is a poet, critic and translator. Her latest books include Subliminal: Poems, Mahasweta Devi: Writer, Activist, Visionary and Kazi Nazrul Islam: Selected Essays. She has over 20 books to her credit, including translations of major Bengali writers such as Rabindranath Tagore, Bankimchandra Chatterjee, Kazi Nazrul Islam and Mahasweta Devi, and critical studies of Tagore, women’s writing and gender issues. She has edited several anthologies of South Asian writing, and co-edited the The Essential Tagore, nominated Book of the Year 2011. She was Professor of Comparative Literature and Translation Studies at Dr. B. R. Ambedkar University Delhi

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Sri N Srivatsa

Chennai-born Sri N Srivatsa is a retired banker living in Noida. Over the years, his poetry and translations mostly from Tamil to English and vice versa plus a handful to and from Hindi, have been featured on several journals and platforms. Eleven volumes of Tamil poems of eleven different poets that he translated to English and one volume of English poems translated by him into Tamil of yet another poet have been published so far. A collection of his English translations titled "Modern Tamil Poetry: A Miniature Canvas - Volume I with a poem each of 153 poets has just been released.

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Toolika Rani

Squadron Leader (Dr) Toolika Rani is an ex-Indian Air Force Officer, Mountaineer (Everest Climber), International Motivational Speaker (TEDx), Author, Poet, Assistant Professor, and was the G-20 Brand Ambassador of Higher Education Department, U.P. Government (2023). She has published seven books, out of which two are collections of her English poems, titled, The Song of the Sky and A Wild Flower, two are collections of her Hindi poems titled, Dayron ke Baahar and Hasratein. She has edited an International Anthology of Poems on Himalaya, titled, The Mountain was Abuzz which was displayed at Kathmandu International Mountain Film Festival, 2024. Her book Beyond That Wall: Redemption on Everest fetched her Young Writer Award and Sahitya Shree Award. Sherpas of Solukhumbu: History and Evolution is based on her Ph.D. thesis on the Sherpas of Nepal.

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सुरेश्वर त्रिपाठी

एक जुलाई सन् 1956 को गोरखपुर (उत्तर प्रदेश) के एक गाँव बाने में जनमे सुरेश्वर का पठन-पाठन वाराणसी में हुआ। काशी हिंदू विश्वविद्यालय से हिंदी में एम.ए., पी एच-डी तथा मास्टर आफ जर्नलिज्म।

यायावरी वृत्ति के चिंतक, कवि, कथाकार, प्रखर पत्रकार, छायाकार। अपनी पत्रकारिता और लेखन के साथ ही अत्यंत प्रकृति-प्रेमी और पक्षियों के छायाकार के रूप में प्रसिद्धि। 1980 के आसपास वाराणसी के दैनिक ‘आज’ से पत्रकारिता जीवन की शुरुआत। बाद में ‘दैनिक जागरण’, ‘राष्ट्रीय सहारा’ से भी जुड़े। दिल्ली की एक हिंदी पत्रिका का संपादन भी किया (1990)। पत्रकारिता में व्याप्त भ्रष्टाचार की अनदेखी के कारण 1993 में वाराणसी से भ्रष्ट पत्रकारों के खिलाफ आंदोलन के रूप में ‘काशी प्रतिमान’ नामक पाक्षिक समाचार पत्र का प्रकाशन प्रारंभ किया। इस आंदोलन के समर्थन में डॉक्टर रामविलास शर्मा, कमलेश्वर, प्रकाश मनु जैसे अनेक बड़े लोगों का सहयोग मिला। ‘काशी प्रतिमान’ के पाँच साहित्यिक विशेषांकों का संपादन। धूमिल विशेषांक के अतिथि संपादक कमलेश्वर रहे।

1980 के बाद से ही देश के प्रमुख पत्र-पत्रिकाओं में विभिन्न विषयों पर निरंतर लेख प्रकाशित। साथ में कविताएँ और कहानियों भी। देश के प्रमुख पत्र-पत्रिकाओं में छायाचित्रों का भी प्रकाशन। काशी हिंदू विश्वविद्यालय के हिंदी भवन में ‘कैमरे के गाँव में’ छायाचित्र प्रदर्शनी शुरू की गई, जो कई अन्य प्रमुख स्थानों पर भी लगाई गई। अपने ग्रामीण चित्रों के कारण यह प्रदर्शनी-शृंखला बहुत लोकप्रिय हुई।

विश्व भोजपुरी सम्मेलन द्वारा आयोजित कार्यक्रम में छायाचित्र प्रदर्शनी का मावलंकर सभागार, नयी दिल्ली में आयोजन, जिसका उद्घाटन तत्कालीन राष्ट्रपति डा. शंकरदयाल शर्मा ने किया (1997)। साहित्य अकादेमी नयी दिल्ली के सभागार में डा. रामविलास शर्मा के चित्रों की प्रदर्शनी, जिसका उद्घाटन प्रसिद्ध साहित्यकार भीष्म साहनी ने किया। 2015 में वाराणसी में लगाई गई ‘परिंदों की उड़ान’ छायाचित्र प्रदर्शनी को भी बहुत सराहा गया। छायांकन प्रतियोगिताओं मे अनेक बार पुरस्कृत। कई महत्वपूर्ण साहित्यकारों पर आधारित वीडियो फिल्मों का निर्माण, इनमें डॉ रामविलास शर्मा और डॉ शिवप्रसाद सिंह पर बनाई गई वीडियो फिल्में विशेष चर्चित।

कृतियाँ: तीन कथा संग्रह, कविता संग्रह, यात्रा संस्मरण, धूमिल के लोग, प्रगतिशीलता के अग्रदूत-निराला, भ्रष्टाचार की शिकार हिंदी पत्रकारिता एवं कई आलोचनात्मक पुस्तकों का संपादन। ‘बालवाटिका’ के लिए निरंतर लेखन।

विशेष: पिछले चार दशकों से पक्षियों के छायांकन, उनके संरक्षण, शिकार रोकने, उनके आशियानों पर मँड़राते खतरे आदि के लिये देश भर में यायावरी। इस संबंध में प्रमुख पत्र-पत्रिकाओं में निरंतर लेखों का प्रकाशन।

संपर्क: 281, सेक्टर 19, फरीदाबाद (हरियाणा), पिन-121002

चलभाष: 09871469579

सेतु, नवम्बर 2024

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