Adi Rule earned her MFA in writing from the Vermont College of Fine Arts, and also has a BA in voice from the University of New Hampshire. Her first book is Strange Sweet Song. NAW- Please give me your bio in…
Nicoletta Del Franco (PhD Development Studies, University of Sussex, 2007; MA Gender and Development, IDS- University of Sussex, 1999) is a researcher and development consultant with extensive experience of qualitative research in South Asia (rural and urban Bangladesh in particular)…
Ankush Saikia is the author of “The Girl from Nongrim Hills”, a noir thriller set in Shillong, and published by Penguin. He has worked for India Today magazine, Sage Publications and Dorling Kindersley. He was shortlisted for the fourth Outlook/Picador-India non-fiction writing award…
Fiona Walker has a reputation as the voice of young, media-aware women. Dubbed ‘The Jilly Cooper of the Cosmo Generation’, she trained in theatre arts and worked briefly in advertising before becoming a bestselling novelist in her twenties, injecting her…
Janet Evanovich is a bestselling author and ranks among the top authors. She was placed No. 79 on Forbes’ list of The World’s Most Powerful Celebrities, with earnings running into millions. NAW-When did your literary journey begin? At what age did…
Vineetha Mokkil is a writer based in New Delhi, India. Her short stories have been published in Santa Fe Writers Project Journal and Why We Don’t Talk, and in the Asia Writes Project. Her debut work- “A Happy Place” was published by Harper Collins. It…
Lucinda Riley was born in Ireland and during her childhood, she travelled extensively abroad, particularly to the Far East. Moving to drama school in London, she became an actress, working in film, theatre and television. At twenty-four, she wrote her first novel,…
Don and Cathy Rush have written and self-published five illustrated storybooks including Robby’s Quest for Seed, Robby’s Quest: Ocean Bound, Robby’s Quest: Return of the Cat, Robby’s Quest: Thrills and Chills and Hershey Learns a lesson. They have two daughters,…
Lauren Francis Sharma was born in New York City to Trinidadian immigrants and raised in Baltimore, Maryland. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in English literature with a minor in African-American Studies from the University of Pennsylvania and a J.D. from…
Nadia Hashimi was born and raised in New York and New Jersey. Both her parents were born in Afghanistan and left in the early 1970s, before the Soviet invasion. Nadia works as a pediatrician in Maryland. The The Pearl That Broke Its…
Madhuri Iyer is a writer and artist currently based in Mumbai. She began her career in Mumbai as an advertising visualiser. Her latest published work is Manhattan Mango. NAW- Please give me your bio in brief highlighting your published works till…
Janice Pariat is the author of Boats on Land, which won the Crossword Book Award for Fiction and the Young Writers’ Award from the Sahitya Akademi in 2013. She writes cultural features for a wide number of magazines and edits…