She the People

Krupa Ge is a writer from Madras. She is the author of a novel, What We Know About Her (Context, 2021) and a narrative non-fiction book, Rivers Remember (Context, 2019).

Her reportage and cultural writings have appeared in Indian and international publications over the last 14 years.

Her debut novel What We Know About Her was longlisted for The JCB Prize for Literature 2021 and shortlisted for the Women Writer’s Prize. Krupa received a Laadli Award for her column on women in cinema, Ms. Representation in The New Indian Express for the year 2017. She was awarded the Jayanthi Residency in 2017, the Toto-Sangam Residency Fellowship in 2016 and was shortlisted for a Toto Prize in Creative Writing. She’s currently dabbling in screenwriting. Sharing A Ride, based on her short story, and for which she co-wrote the screenplay has just been filmed by director Leena Yadav and will be a part of an international anthology Tell it Like a Woman.

Naheed Patel is a graduate of the MFA program at Columbia University’s School of the Arts, where she received fellowship awards for the 2014-2015 and 2015-2016 academic years.

Her writing has appeared in the New England Review, The Guardian, HuffPost, Public Books, Scroll.in, BOMB Magazine, PEN America blog, EuropeNow Journal, Quarterly Conversation, Asymptote Journal and Sou’wester Journal.

She received an honorable mention in Glimmer Train’s 2016 July/August Fiction Open, and was a 2015 general contributor in fiction at the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference.

Her debut novel is out from Harper Collins India in 2021 and Unnamed Press in April 2022.

Sarah Joseph is a highly acclaimed Malayalam novelist, short-story writer, political commentator and activist. She is the author of eight novels, nine collections of short fiction, five novelettes, several plays, children’s literature and several non- fiction books. Her many awards include the Sahitya Akademi Award, the Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award, the Vayalur Award, the Crossword Award, the Padmaprabha Literary Award and the O Chanthu Menon Award. Her name is inextricably linked with the feminist movement in Kerala and her radical writings have inspired and paved the way for future generations of Malayali working women and activists.

Carvalho is a prize-wining British-Asian writer whose fiction and non-fiction explores themes of migration, memory, and belonging. She is the author of three widely cited non-fiction books documenting the Goan migration to colonial East Africa. Between 2011-2014, she headed the Oral Histories of British-Goans Project funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund and archived at the British Library, Kings Cross. Her short fiction and poetry have been published in journals and 17 multi-author anthologies, among them by Kingston University Press, Comma Press, and Parthian Books Wales, and her work has been translated into the Portuguese. She has been listed or placed in 40 odd short fiction and poetry contests, including major international and literary festival competitions such as Fish, Bath, Brighton, Penfro Wales festival, Hastings festival, New Asian Writing, The British Asian Writer, notably shortlisted for the London Short Story Prize 2017, and winner of the Leicester Writes Prize 2018. She lives in London. She is represented by The Ruppin Agency UK.

Dr. Tarana Husain Khan is a writer and food historian based in Rampur. Her articles on Rampur cuisine, culture and oral history have appeared in Eaten Mag, Scroll, The Wire and DailyO. Her historical fiction, ‘The Begum and the Dastan’ has been published by Tranquebar Westland. Her book on Rampur cuisine, ‘Rampuri Cuisine: Food Fables, Memories and Recipes’, shall be published by Penguin India.

She hosts a website on Rampur’s cultural and culinary history (taranakhanauthor.com). Her first novel, ‘I’m Not a Bimbette’(2015) and its sequel ‘Cyber Bullied’ (2020) was published by Juggernaut Books. She founded the ‘Rampur Book Club’ in 2016 to promote reading of world literature in Rampur.

She has contributed a short story to the anthologies Desi Delicacies (Pan Macmillan, India) and Dastarkhwan: Food Writing from South Asia and Diaspora ( Beacon Books, UK). She hosts and curates a website on Rampur culture and oral history. She lives between Rampur and Nainital with her husband.

She is currently working on a Global Challenges Research Fund and Arts and Humanities Research Council funded research project, ‘Forgotten Food: Culinary Memory, Local Heritage and Lost Agricultural Varieties in India’.

G.J.V. Prasad, formerly Professor of English at Jawaharlal Nehru University, is a poet, novelist, and translator. His teachings and research have focused on Indian English literature, modern drama and translation.

Sangeetha Sreenivasan is a bilingual author of several works of fiction and children’s literature, including Acid, published by Penguin Random House India in 2018. In addition to her original works, Sreenivasan has translated Elena Ferrante’s The Days of Abandonment into Malayalam. Her translation of one of George Simenon’s Maigret novels is forthcoming from Mathrubhumi Books. She is currently working on a translation of Chris Kraus’s cult feminist classic I Love Dick.

Shinie Antony has authored short-story books The Orphanage For Words, Barefoot and Pregnant and novels When Mira Went Forth and Multiplied, A Kingdom for his Love. She has compiled the anthologies Why We Don’t Talk and Boo. Her story A Dog’s Death won the Commonwealth Short Story Asia region prize in 2003. Shinie is also the director of the Bengaluru Poetry Festival and co-founder of the Bangalore Literature Festival. The Girl Who Couldn’t Love is her latest novel.