Gowhar Yaqoob is an independent research scholar based out of Srinagar. Her research practice focuses on the medieval and modern history of literature with special focus on Kashmir.
Gowhar Fazili teaches political science and sociology. His writing has appeared in various journals and edited volumes, and a monograph based on his doctoral thesis is slated to be published soon.
Tanveer Ajsi is an independent art historian and cultural theorist. He has written extensively on theatre, performing arts, visual arts and literature, besides translating and directing plays, and curating and conceptualizing exhibitions.
Kalpana Raina was born in Kashmir and lives in New York. She is a senior executive, board director and adviser with over thirty years of experience in both corporate and not-for-profit sectors. This is her first work of translation.
Hari Krishna Kaul (1934–2009) was born in Kashmir and lived there for most of his life. He taught Hindi literature in various colleges of the University of Kashmir until he was forced to leave in 1990. Kaul started his literary career writing short stories in Urdu and Hindi ...
Martin Dolan is a writer from Albany, New York. His essays have appeared in The Nation, The Point, and The Baffler. He’s online at dolanmartin.github.io.
Britt H. Young is a writer and geographer whose work has appeared in n+1, Wired, and The Drift. They are working on a book about tech’s relationship to the human body and our prosthetic futures.
Jeff Weinstein is a writer, editor, and teacher based in New York. A former restaurant critic at the Village Voice, he’s contributed articles about art, style, books, and queer politics to the Voice, The New Yorker, Artforum, the Philadelphia Inquirer, and many other ...
Matt Sandler works at the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race at Columbia University. He is the author of The Black Romantic Revolution: Abolitionist Poets at the End of Slavery.
Anne Posten translates prose, poetry, and drama from German. The recipient of a Fulbright fellowship, her translations have appeared with New Directions and in Music and Literature and n+1.
Amber McBride is the author of Me (Moth). Her work has been published in Ploughshares and Provincetown Arts, among other publications. “Not Even a Nina Simone Hymn Can Perform Magic Tricks” is from Thick with Trouble, published by Penguin Books, an imprint of ...