Guest Editor for ISSUE-XVIlI : Brentley Frazer
Brentley Frazer: Poet/writer with texts published in numerous international anthologies, newspapers, magazines and other periodicals. Guest poet at literary festivals, poetry readings and culture jams, including: The National Poetry Festival, The Sydney Poetry Festival, The Queensland Poetry Festival, The Brisbane Writers Festival, The Wellington International Poetry Festival, The National Young Writers Festival, The Oxfam Bookfest in London and ‘Spoken‘ at the State Library of Queensland. Co-founder of The Vision Area and a founding member of the long running Brisbane spoken word event Speed Poets. Founder, editor and publisher of Retort Magazine, journal of new international cutting edge art and literature (online since 2001). Holds a Master of Arts (Writing) from James Cook University. Currently a PhD candidate at Griffith University (Poetry). Brentley likes to experiment with creative nonfiction, gonzo journalism, painting and video/photography. Visit www.brentley.com for more information and new writings.
Guest Editor for ISSUE-XVIl : Robert Masterson
Robert Masterson, professor of English at CUNY-BMCC in New York City, has authored Garnish Trouble, Artificial Rats & Electric Cats, and Trial by Water. First published in 1978, his creative writing, literary criticism, photography, and journalism has appeared in dozens of magazines, newspapers, galleries, and journals. Masterson holds degrees from the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, New Mexico; the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics in Boulder, Colorado; and Shaanxi Normal University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, The People’s Republic of China.
Guest Editor for ISSUE-XVI : Colleen S. Harris
Colleen S. Harris is a two-time Puschart nominee for her poetry, and the author of three books of poetry: The Kentucky Vein (Punkin House, 2011), These Terrible Sacraments (Bellowing Ark, 2010), and God in my Throat: The Lilith Poems (Bellowing Ark, 2009). Her fourth book of poems, Gonesongs, is forthcoming from Bellowing Ark Press in 2013. Colleen co-edited the collection Women on Poetry: Writing, Revising, Publishing and Teaching (McFarland, 2012) which boasts a foreword by Molly Peacock and contributions from multiple award-winning women poets, and Colleen is currently working on editing a collection of critical analyses of modern women poets who work with myth structures. Colleen's poetry has appeared in River Styx, The Louisville Review, Minnetonka Review, Wisconsin Review, and many others, and her work on libraries has appeared in Library Journal, Journal of Access Services, Writing and Publishing: The Librarian's Handbook (American Library Association, 2010), Library Management Tips That Work (American Library Association, 2011) and others. Colleen holds an MS in Library and Information Science and an MFA in Writing, and works as an Assistant Professor and Head of Access Services at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga's Lupton Library. She also teaches the occasional creative writing or women's studies course and pursues her Ed.D. in Learning and Leadership in her free time.
Guest Editor for ISSUE-XV : Peycho Kanev
Peycho Kanev
Peycho Kanev is the Editor In Chief of Kanev Books and is currently based in Chicago. His poems have appeared in numerous anthologies and in more than 500 literary magazines, such as: Poetry Quarterly, Evergreen Review, The Monongahela Review, The Coachella Review, Midwest Literary Review, Third Wednesday, The Mayo Review, The Cleveland Review, Loch Raven Review, In Posse Review, Mascara Literary Review and many others.
He has been nominated for the Pushcart Award and Best of the Net. In 2009 his short story collection Walking Through Walls and in April 2010 his poetry collection American Notebooks were published in Bulgaria.
His poetry collection Bone Silence was released in September 2010 by Desperanto, NY. A new collection of his poetry, titled Requiem for One Night, will be published by Desperanto in 2012.
He has been nominated for the Pushcart Award and Best of the Net. In 2009 his short story collection Walking Through Walls and in April 2010 his poetry collection American Notebooks were published in Bulgaria.
His poetry collection Bone Silence was released in September 2010 by Desperanto, NY. A new collection of his poetry, titled Requiem for One Night, will be published by Desperanto in 2012.
Guest Editor for ISSUE-XIV : Dr. Sukrita Paul Kumar
Dr. Sukrita Paul Kumar
Born and brought up in Kenya, Sukrita Paul Kumar is a poet and a critic, teaching literature at Delhi University. Formerly a Fellow at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla, she is at present an Honorary Fellow of International Writing Programme, University of Iowa, USA, Fellow of Cambridge Seminars and Hong Kong Baptist University, Centre for Developing Countries, Delhi University as well as Faculty, Durrell Centre at Corfu, Greece. She has published six collections of poems, Rowing Together, Oscillations, Apurna, Folds of Silence, Without Margins and the latest, Poems Come Home published by HarperCollins is a bilingual book, the original English poems alongside their Hindustani translations by the eminent lyricist Gulzar. Her poems have been published In Their Own Voice, the Penguin collection of Indian women poets, and many journals in India and abroad.
Her major critical publications include her books, Narrating Partition, Conversations on Modernism, The New Story and Man, Woman and Androgyny. Involved in the study of literary translation, she was Director of Katha’s Project on “Translating Short Fiction”, for two years. Her volume, Ismat, Her Life, Her Times was published by Katha, while as Director of a UNESCO project on “The Culture of Peace”, she edited a volume of Urdu short stories from India and Pakistan, Mapping Memories. She has co-edited Speaking for Herself: An Anthology of Asian Women’s Writing (Penguin India), Women’s Studies in India: Contours of Change (IIAS, Shimla). The National Book Trust of India published her translations, Stories of Joginder Paul and Katha published her translation of his Partition novel, Sleepwalkers. She is the chief editor of the anthology prescribed by University of Delhi on “Cultural Diversity and Literary Traditions in India” (Macmillan India). Also, Pearson Longman published Interpreting Homes in South Asian Literature, co-edited by her. “Crossing Over”, a special issue on Partition, of Manoa, the journal from University of Hawaii (Summer 2007), was guest-edited by her. She is at present engaged with a major project on “Cultural Diversity in South Asia” as part of which she also convened an International Seminar on the subject. Her papers on “Cultural Diversity in South Asia” have been published in international journals. She has been the academic coordinator of three IGNOU films on “Partition through the eyes of the Writer”.
Sukrita was invited to the three-month-long International Writing Programme (2002), at Iowa, USA. In 2004, she was invited by the Hong Kong Baptist University for a residency. She has been a recipient of several grants and fellowships including a translation grant from International Center for Writing and Translation, University of California at Irvine (2004), Rockefeller grant for an academic visit to New York State University, the British Council Visitorship and Charles Wallace sponsorship for a seminar in Cambridge University. She is also an awardee of the Shastri Indo-Canadian Research Fellowship. She has lectured at Cambridge University, SOAS (London University) and several Canadian and American Universities on Indian literature. At the South Asia Institute at Heidelberg, Germany, she lectured on Partition Narratives. She has given readings of her poems on invitation from ICCR, Sahitya Akademi, Jyanpeeth, The Poetry Society of India and various universities and institutions abroad. She has been on the jury of several literary awards including Sahitya Akademi, Indian Council of Cultural Relations, Crossword, Katha and others. A nominated member of the Executive at India International Centre, she has been involved in the conceptualization of many cultural and intellectual activities over many years.
Committed to serving social causes, she set up a shelter for the homeless a few years ago. The poems that came out of her experiences with the homeless were presented at the Nehru Centre at London.
Sukrita has held a solo exhibition of her paintings at AIFACS in New Delhi.
Her major critical publications include her books, Narrating Partition, Conversations on Modernism, The New Story and Man, Woman and Androgyny. Involved in the study of literary translation, she was Director of Katha’s Project on “Translating Short Fiction”, for two years. Her volume, Ismat, Her Life, Her Times was published by Katha, while as Director of a UNESCO project on “The Culture of Peace”, she edited a volume of Urdu short stories from India and Pakistan, Mapping Memories. She has co-edited Speaking for Herself: An Anthology of Asian Women’s Writing (Penguin India), Women’s Studies in India: Contours of Change (IIAS, Shimla). The National Book Trust of India published her translations, Stories of Joginder Paul and Katha published her translation of his Partition novel, Sleepwalkers. She is the chief editor of the anthology prescribed by University of Delhi on “Cultural Diversity and Literary Traditions in India” (Macmillan India). Also, Pearson Longman published Interpreting Homes in South Asian Literature, co-edited by her. “Crossing Over”, a special issue on Partition, of Manoa, the journal from University of Hawaii (Summer 2007), was guest-edited by her. She is at present engaged with a major project on “Cultural Diversity in South Asia” as part of which she also convened an International Seminar on the subject. Her papers on “Cultural Diversity in South Asia” have been published in international journals. She has been the academic coordinator of three IGNOU films on “Partition through the eyes of the Writer”.
Sukrita was invited to the three-month-long International Writing Programme (2002), at Iowa, USA. In 2004, she was invited by the Hong Kong Baptist University for a residency. She has been a recipient of several grants and fellowships including a translation grant from International Center for Writing and Translation, University of California at Irvine (2004), Rockefeller grant for an academic visit to New York State University, the British Council Visitorship and Charles Wallace sponsorship for a seminar in Cambridge University. She is also an awardee of the Shastri Indo-Canadian Research Fellowship. She has lectured at Cambridge University, SOAS (London University) and several Canadian and American Universities on Indian literature. At the South Asia Institute at Heidelberg, Germany, she lectured on Partition Narratives. She has given readings of her poems on invitation from ICCR, Sahitya Akademi, Jyanpeeth, The Poetry Society of India and various universities and institutions abroad. She has been on the jury of several literary awards including Sahitya Akademi, Indian Council of Cultural Relations, Crossword, Katha and others. A nominated member of the Executive at India International Centre, she has been involved in the conceptualization of many cultural and intellectual activities over many years.
Committed to serving social causes, she set up a shelter for the homeless a few years ago. The poems that came out of her experiences with the homeless were presented at the Nehru Centre at London.
Sukrita has held a solo exhibition of her paintings at AIFACS in New Delhi.
