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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/

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
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विनीता तिवारी

राजस्थान में जन्म। आप लेखन के अतिरिक्त हिन्दुस्तानी शास्त्रीय संगीत, नृत्य एवं चित्रकला में अभिरुचि रखती हैं। हिन्दी भाषा एवं भारतीय संस्कृति के प्रचार प्रसार से जुड़ी वर्जीनिया, मैरीलैंड की कई संस्थाओं में आपका सक्रिय योगदान रहता है। इंडिया इंटरनेशनल स्कूल, शैंटिली, वर्जीनिया में हिन्दी भाषा के अध्यापन का कार्य कर रही हैं।

एक काव्य-संग्रह “दिल से दिल तक” और एक ग़ज़ल संग्रह “इत्मीनान में हूँ मैं” प्रकाशित। राष्ट्रीय एवं अंतरराष्ट्रीय कवि सम्मेलनों एवं मुशायरों में आपकी शिरकत रहती है। अनहदकृति पत्रिका की “आवाज़ें” में आप बहुत से प्रतिष्ठित रचनाकारों की रचनाओं को अपनी आवाज़ भी देती रही हैं।

नीदरलैंड से निकलने वाली पत्रिका “साहित्य का विश्वरंग” में सहायक-सम्पादक।

अमेरिका के वर्जीनिया राज्य में निवास।

लेखकवृंद

Candice Louisa Daquin

Candice Louisa Daquin is a Mizrahi/Sephardi Psychotherapist, Writer and Editor. Born to French/Egyptian parents, Daquin moved to America and splits her time between therapy and editing. Daquin is Senior Editor with Indie Blu(e) Publishing and Consultant Editor with Raw Earth Ink. She also edits for The Pine Cone Review, Parcham and Tint Journal among others. Daquin’s last collection was Tainted by the Same Counterfeit (Finishing Line Press).

Shailja Sharma

Shailja Sharma (Ph.D.), USA, is a mental health provider and a multilingual author. Apart from scholarly publication and editorial service, her literary writings have been widely published. Dr. Sharma’s publications have appeared in many literary journals/forums of repute across USA, Canada, UK, and Asia. Her writings have appeared in #1 Best Selling anthologies published nationally and internationally. Dr. Sharma’s poetry book, “Dear Mama: An Immigrant’s Secret Cry,” by Setu, Pittsburgh, has been critically acclaimed. She was awarded a special literary honor for her writing contributions in international languages.

प्रीति गोविन्दराज * Preethi Govindaraj

प्रीति गोविन्दराज

विश्व हिंदी सचिवालय की कहानी प्रतियोगिता 2019 में अमेरिका क्षेत्र में प्रथम स्थान पाने वाली प्रीति गोविन्दराज वर्जीनिया में रहती हैं। व्यवसाय से वे कैंसर नर्स हैं और कई वर्षों से हिन्दी, उर्दू और अंग्रेज़ी में मूलत: कविताएँ और कहानियाँ लिख रही हैं। उन्होंने अपने कुछ संस्मरण भी कहानियों के रूप में लिखे हैं। उनका एक अंग्रेज़ी काव्य संग्रह Thoughts, Themes and Images सेतु द्वारा नवम्बर 2023 में प्रकाशित किया गया है।

Preethi Govindaraj is a poet who lives in Virginia with her family. She has an MSc Nursing degree and works as a Nurse navigator in the Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, Washington DC. She has composed poems in English for a long time. She enjoys writing in Hindi and Urdu as well. Her first poetry collection Thoughts, Themes and Images has been published by Setu,

Thoughts Themes and Images
Preethi Govindaraj

Thoughts, Themes and Images (Paperback)

This is a collection of poems written by Preethi Govindaraj. Preethi’s poems cover a range of ideas, deeply personal emotions, random musings, and insightful commentary on social and current-day issues, some of which are reflected in the accompanying paintings. The collection of more than one hundred and fifty poems reflects the depth and range of her poetic mind and imagination.

The book is full of surprises – love, suffering, chuckles, serious social commentary are brought together like a quintessential Indian curry. Preethi’s poems examine the mundane and the sublime with equal honesty, sincerity, and zeal. Something in this potpourri of reflections on family, festivals, relationships, nature and the changing seasons, and serious social issues should appeal to every poetry lover.

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Jerome Berglund

Jerome Berglund

Jerome Berglund, recent recipient of the Setu 2022 Award for Excellence, has many haiku, tanka, and haiga exhibited and forthcoming online and in print, most recently in the Asahi Shimbun, Bear Creek Haiku, Bamboo Hut, Bottle Rockets, Cold Moon Journal, Daily Haiga, Failed Haiku, Frogpond, Haiku Dialogue, Haiku Seed, Poetry Pea, Setu Bilingual Journal, Scarlet Dragonfly, Triya, Under the Basho, Wales Haiku Journal, and the Zen Space. He is furthermore an established, award-winning fine art photographer, whose black and white pictures have been shown in New York, Minneapolis, and Santa Monica galleries.

Writing Publications:

https://flowersunmedia.wixsite.com/jbphotography/post/haiku-senryu-and-haiga-publications

Socials:

TWITTER: https://twitter.com/BerglundJerome

BLOG: https://flowersunmedia.wixsite.com/jbphotography/blog-1/

INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/lespectrepoliteraryjournal/

FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/JeromeBerglundPhotography/

Setu, January 2023

Belinda Subraman

Belinda Subraman

`Belinda Subraman been published in 100s of magazines, printed and online, aca-demic and small presses (1973- Present). She has a Master of Arts from California State University. Her archives are housed at University of New Mexico, Albu-querque. Her latest book is Left Hand Dharma.

In 2020 Belinda began an online show called GAS: Poetry, Art & Music which features interviews, readings, performances and art show in a video format available free at http://youtube.com/BelindaSubraman An online journal by the same name is here: https://gaspoertyartandmusic.blogspot.com/ She began GAS at the Mission in 2022 which are specially compiled shows and interviews for The Mission Gas Station.

Brindha Vinodh

Brindha Vinodh is a poet, writer, blogger and a former copyeditor. She has contributed to several anthologies and been published on several international magazines, e-zines and journals. Her debut poetry book titled “Autumn in America & other poems” was released in 2022 through Setu publications, Pittsburgh, USA.

Her poems have been published in Setu, Glomag, Soflay, innerchildpress international, OPA, Destiny Poets ( UK), Metverse Muse, etc. to name a few.

Her recent achievements include commendable mentions in two categories, “Poet of the year” and “critic of the year” for 2021 in Destiny Poets’ International community of Poets (ICOP) Wakefield, UK. Born and brought up in Chennai, India, she currently resides in the United States of America with her husband and two daughters. Incidentally, she also holds a masters’ degree in Econometrics from the University of Madras.

Ann Christine Tabaka

Ann Christine Tabaka has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize in Poetry, has been internationally published, and won poetry awards from numerous publications. She lives in Delaware, USA. She loves gardening and cooking. Chris lives with her husband and three cats. Her most recent credits are: Pomona Valley Review; Ariel Chart, Page & Spine, West Texas Literary Review, Oddball Magazine, The Paragon Journal, The Stray Branch, Trigger Fish Critical Review, Foliate Oak Review, Better Than Starbucks!, Anapest Journal, Mused, Apricity Magazine, The Write Launch, The Stray Branch, Scryptic Magazine, Ann Arbor Review, The McKinley Review.

Author Mousumi Banerjee

Mousumi Banerjee

Mousumi Banerjee is Professor of Biostatistics at the University of Michigan (USA). Professionally, Mousumi lives in a world of hard science, trying to make sense of data to move cancer research and treatment forward. But her passion and deep affinity for the arts gives her sustenance in life, and counterbalances her work as a scientist. Mousumi writes in both Bangla and English. Her work has been published in many literary magazines in USA, India, and Bangladesh, including Telegraph, BanglaLive, Keyapata, TechTouchটক, Antonym, Sahitya Café, Irabotee, Golpopath, Swinhoe Street, Batayan, Parabaas, Manush Mecca. A rare feat is her poetry "White Noise" published in the leading medical journal (Journal of the American Medical Association) that gives a humanistic face to cancer. Her collected poems Eklaghor (Room Alone) was published in Kolkata by Yaponchitra. Mousumi lives with her family in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Stefan Bohdan

Stefan Bohdan

Stefan Bohdan (Scott Lee Bogden) lives in Orlando, Florida USA. He is retired from the architectural/engineering/construction world. He now spends his time writing poems and novels. His English poems have been published in multiple books, anthologies, journals, newspapers, e-zines and translated into Persian (Farsi), Arabic, Urdu, Nepali, Hindi, Bengali, Estonian, French, Spanish, old Japanese, Dutch, Afrikaans, Turkish, Italian, Malayalam, Assamese, Tamil, Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian, Hebrew, Filipino, Hiligaynon, Kinaray-a, and Albanian. He also writes reviews for poetry books. He is internationally published and has collaborated with poets, translators and artists from around the world. He is the founder of Third Eye Butterfly Press.

Stefan Bohdan was born in 1966 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, lived in Jamaica and Iran, and has traveled the world. He currently lives in Central Florida with his wife and dogs. He is the father of five adult children: three females and two males. He is also a grandfather.

Stefan has been a construction laborer, a land/road surveyor, an estimator, a manual draftsman, a CADD technician, a designer for state/national/international architectural and engineering and construction firms, a licensed building contractor, and has owned his own business designing custom homes. He has been a community college student who received his Associates in Arts degree (Seminole Community College) and is a university dropout: a former student of Computer Engineering (University of Central Florida).

An addiction, and the health and legal problems associated with it, ended his university scholarship and cost him employment with some of the largest architectural and engineering firms in the world. It also cost him an employment offer from NASA/Kennedy Space Center. Clean and sober since 2007, he reinvented himself as a poet. He currently works for a small engineering company as an electronics assembler (days) and as a poet and publisher (nights).

Stefan enjoys writing poetry and creating pencil and charcoal drawings, abstract paintings, Turkish limestone sculptures, and multiple-exposure photography using his Lubitel/USSR camera. He loves reading poetry, Russian literature and dystopian novels. He is currently learning Russian, Ukrainian, and Hindi and to play guitar.

For My Muse (2020), God’s Silence a Lion’s Roar (2018), and God’s Breath (2018) are his most recent published poetry books.

Stefan Bohdan can be found on his Amazon Author Page, Third Eye Butterfly Press website, Facebook pages, YouTube channel, and on Twitter, Instagram, and Linkedin.

Email: StefanBohdan@Yahoo.com.

Ananda Sen

Ananda Sen lives in Ann Arbor, a vibrant mid-western city in Michigan, USA. He is a professor of Biostatistics at the University of Michigan, where he teaches and conducts research in an effort to advance biomedical sciences. Alongside maintaining a professional career as a data scientist, he is passionate about writing and theater. Primarily writing in Bengali, his mother tongue, he has published in several renowned magazines, in both print and electronic formats. Further, along with his group Michigan Literary and Theatrical Society, he has performed in theatrical productions staged in multiple cities in USA as well as in India. His dual passions help him survive the drudgery of the mundane every day.

Sushma Malhotra

Sushma Malhotra

Currently, Sushma Malhotra is an Adjunct Lecturer, in the Secondary Education Youth Services, Department of World Languages (WL), Queens College, CUNY, New York. She started her career as a teacher and then became an Assistant Principal with the New York City Department of Education. She has worked as an English Language Instructional Support Specialist (ELLISS) with the NYCDOE as well. She has Masters of Arts in English and Masters in Education, from India; and Masters of Science in Education and Postmaster's Diploma in School Administration and Supervision from City University of New York.,New York. She received a STARTALK Federal grant from 2009 to 2019 to teach Hindi as one of the critical languages. She organized Summer programs for middle and high school students to study Hindi and earn foreign language credits in Hindi. In 2007 she initiated the Regents examination for Languages Other Than English (LOTE) for Hindi and Punjabi for the New York State Education Department and is still administering those exams. Her literary work of different genres is published both in Hindi and English. She has published two poetry books, "Anjuli Bhar Pushp" and "Main Tum aur Ek Dagar" in Hindi and an anthology "Close to My Heart" in English. She is the founder president of Association of Indian American Educators Inc. New York and Nirmal Roshan Sahitiyak Manch, New York.

James Bates

James Bates

Jim lives in a small town twenty miles west of Minneapolis, Minnesota. His stories and poems have appeared in many online and print publications. His collection of short stories, Resilience, is scheduled to be published in 2020 by Bridge House Publishing. All of his stories can be found on his blog: www.theviewfromlonglake.wordpress.com.

Meenakshi Mohan

Meenakshi Mohan

Dr. Meenakshi Mohan is an educator, art critic, children’s writer, painter, and poet. She has taught at universities in Chicago, Boston, and, more recently, for Towson University in Maryland. Her specialization is Early Childhood Leadership and Advocacy. She has published widely in this area and presented numerous papers and workshops. Her book reviews, art critics, interviews, and poems regularly appear in different journals. She has been listed twice in the Who is Who Among American Teachers. She authored two children’s picture books, The Rainbow in My Room and The Gift, and edited Tamam Shud, poems of Kshitij Mohan. She recently had a solo exhibit of her paintings in Potomac, Maryland. Most of her paintings are in private collections. She is currently on the Advisory Committee of the Montgomery County Library System in its Potomac, Maryland branch. She is on the Editorial Team for Inquiry in Education, a peer-reviewed journal published by National Louis University, Chicago, Illinois. Meenakshi lives in Maryland, USA.

J. D. Nelson

J. D. Nelson (b. 1971) experiments with words in his subterranean laboratory. More than 1,500 of his poems have appeared in many small press publications, in print and online. He is the author of several collections of poetry, including Cinderella City (The Red Ceilings Press, 2012). Visit www.MadVerse.com for more information and links to his published work. Nelson lives in Colorado.

Dawn DeBraal

Dawn DeBraal lives in rural Wisconsin with her husband, Red, two rescue dogs, and a stray cat. She has published over 500 drabbles, short stories and poems in online ezines and anthologies such as Black Hare Press, Black Ink Fiction, Blood Song Books, Zimbel House Publishing, Terror House Magazine, CafeLit UK, Potato Soup Journal, Impspired Magazine, Commuter Lit, The World of Myth, Setu Magazine and more. She co-wrote a novel under the pen name of Garrison McKnight, nominated for the 2019 Pushcart Award by the Falling Star Magazine.

https://linktr.ee/dawndebraal

https://www.amazon.com/-/e/B07STL8DLX

https://www.facebook.com/All-The-Clever-Names-Were-Taken-114783950248991

John C. Mannone

John C. Mannone

John C. Mannone has poems appearing/accepted in the 2020 Antarctic Poetry Exhibition, North Dakota Quarterly, The Menteur, Blue Fifth Review, Poetry South, Baltimore Review, and others. His poetry won the Impressions of Appalachia Creative Arts Contest (2020). He was awarded a Jean Ritchie Fellowship (2017) in Appalachian literature and served as celebrity judge for the National Federation of State Poetry Societies (2018). His latest of three collections, Flux Lines: The Intersection of Science, Love and Poetry, is forthcoming from Linnet’s Wings Press (2020). He edits poetry for Abyss & Apex and other journals. A retired physics professor, he lives near Knoxville, Tennessee. http://jcmannone.wordpress.com

John Clark Smith

John Clark Smith

John Clark Smith grew up in Rochester, New York, U.S.A., but his heritage originates in western Pennsylvania, the setting for Orange Dawn.

John’s book, Taking Action, was published in September, 2019. It is a collection of stories appearing in reviews and journals between 2016-2019. Prior to 2016, when he began to submit his stories, plays and poetry, his graduate studies on the philosopher Charles Peirce, the ancient thinker Origen, and a translation from the ancient Greek and Latin were published as well as several scholarly articles.

He is a graduate of Syracuse University, Duke University, the University of Toronto at St. Michael’s College (Ph.D.), has a diploma from the Graduate Program in Creative Writing at Humber College, and an A.R.C.T. in music from the Royal Conservatory of Music. John has served as a Managing Director (England), Project Manager (China), Music Director (U.S.A.), and a University Lecturer on how the arts can transform us.

John lives with his wife Susan and is the proud father of daughters Tammy and Amara, and son John.

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