Pia Padukone was born in New York City. A graduate of Stuyvesant High School and the London School of Economics, Pia has worked as a copywriter in healthcare advertising. In their spare time, Pia and her husband write Two Admirable…
Amulya Malladi is the author of five bestselling novels published by The Random House Publishing Group. Born and raised in India, she has a bachelor’s degree in engineering, a master’s degree in journalism. She currently lives in Denmark. …
Short story selected for the 2014 New Asian Writing Short Story Anthology I creep out of the quiet darkness of our house, where the smell of last night’s lamb chops lingers to a pre-dawn feeding and drinking frenzy that I…
Karthika Naïr was born in India, lives in Paris, and works as a dance producer and curator. She is the author of Bearings (HarperCollins India, 2009), a poetry collection; DESH: Memories, inherited, borrowed, invented (MC2, Grenoble, 2013), a dance diary; and The Honey Hunter/ Le…
Mahbod Seraji came to America in May of 1976. He stayed at the University of Iowa until 1989 and earned his Bachelors, Masters and Doctorate degrees. Throughout his career, Mahbod has worked in more than 25 different countries. He is an…
Gretchen McNeil is the author of YA horror novels POSSESS, TEN, and 3:59, as well as the upcoming YA mystery/suspense series Don’t Get Mad, beginning in 2014 with GET EVEN and continuing in 2015 with GET DIRTY, all with Balzer…
Cheryl Bradshaw became interested in writing at a young age, but it was almost two decades before she put pen to paper. In 2009 Cheryl wrote her first novel, Black Diamond Death (Sloane Monroe Series, Book 1). Within six weeks…
Adi Alsaid is the author of Let’s Get Lost, coming from Harlequin Teen and Alloy Entertainment in August 2014. He was born and raised in Mexico City. He attended college at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He writes, coaches high school…
Daya Bhat writes poetry in English and Kannada and translates books from Kannada to English. Apart from writing, her interests include painting and listening to Indian classical music. Her debut work, A Maiden of 29 was published by Writers Workshop.…
Silence by Gonzalinho da Costa I am quieted when you are near and I hear you speak in the mouth of the wind blowing soft incessant rain scorpion hiddenly escaping in the grass sprung branch suddenly letting go…
Clara Kensie is the author of dark fiction for young adults. Her super-romantic psychic thriller RUN TO YOU is the first serialized series from Harlequin Teen. This two-book series is serialized into six parts. Read her interview here. Below you can read…
Clara Kensie is the author of dark fiction for young adults. Her super-romantic psychic thriller RUN TO YOU is the first serialized series from Harlequin Teen. This two-book series is serialized into six parts. Visit her here. NAW- Tell us…