Tim Tomlinson is the author of the chapbook Yolanda: An Oral History in Verse, the poetry collection, Requiem for the Tree Fort I Set on Fire, the short story collection, This Is Not Happening to You, and, most recently, Listening to Fish: Meditations from the Wet World, (Nirala Publications). Recent work appears in Men Matters Online Journal, Litro, Live Encounters, and Best Asian Short Stories, 2023. Tim is the director of New York Writers Workshop, and co-author of its popular text, The Portable MFA in Creative Writing. He teaches writing in NYU’s Global Liberal Studies.

Called “a diaspora icon” in The Hindu, Pushcart Prize-winning poet, Dr. Ravi Shankar is the author / translator / editor of 17 books, including the Memoir Magazine and Connecticut Book Award finalist Correctional, the Muse India-award winning translations of Andal, The Autobiography of a Goddess, a collaboration with late American visual artistry Sol LeWitt, Seamless Matter, and W.W. Norton & Co.’s Language for a New Century, called “a beautiful achievement for world literature” by Nobel laureate Nadine Gordimer. He has appeared in The New York Times, The Paris Review, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and on the BBC, NPR, and the PBS Newshour. He founded Drunken Boat, one of the world’s oldest electronic journals of the arts, has won awards from Ploughshares, BOMB Magazine, and the Academy of American Poets, held residencies and fellowships from the Corporation of Yaddo and the MacDowell Colony, been featured at the Ubud and the Jaipur Literary Festival, given a TEDx talk on #impuritanthinking and currently teaches for New York Writers Workshop and at Tufts University.