Tejaswinee Roychowdhury is a lawyer, writer, poet, photographer and artist from West Bengal, India. Her fiction has been longlisted for the 2024 Wigleaf Top 50 and solicited for a Mythic Picnic MPTSP V11:Collection (2025), and Lightning Strikes: An Anthology of Flash Fiction by Fifty Indian Writers edited by Vineetha Mokkil (Dhauli Books, 2024). Her poetry has been selected for the Yearbook of Indian Poetry in English: 2023 edited by Sukrita Paul Kumar and Vinita Agrawal (Pippa Rann Books, 2024), and solicited for TMYS Review: June 2024 published by Koral Dasgupta’s TMYS in collaboration with the Centre of Asia Pacific Initiatives (CAPI) and the Global South Colloquium, University of Victoria, and Rupa Publications, and for the Toshali Poetry Anthology: 2024. Her photography made the Stanchion Issue 17 cover. In addition, her work has been nominated for the 2023 Pushcart Prize and 2025 BOTN Anthology. Her work is or will be in Weekly Humorist, Taco Bell Quarterly, HOAX, My India, My Gods edited by Sahana Ahmed (Bare Bones Publishing, 2025), Fiery Scribe Review, Porch Lit, OtB Poetry, Sontag, The Bayou Review, Muse India, and more.
Website: linktr.ee/tejaswinee
Twitter: @TejaswineeRC
Instagram: @tejaswineeroychowdhury
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0004-9293-6507
Ankit Raj Ojha is an assistant professor of English, former rock band frontman and former software engineer from Chhapra, Bihar, India. Winner of the Briefly Think Essay Prize 2023 and finalist in the Sundress 2023 Broadside Contest, his writings are curated in seventeen countries, including venues such as Poetry Wales, Poetry Scotland, The Honest Ulsterman, Stanchion, Indian Literature (Sahitya Akademi), Outlook India, Dreich, The Broadkill Review, The Belfast Review, San Antonio Review, Roi Fainéant Press, Paddler Press, A Thin Slice of Anxiety, Porch Literary Magazine, BULL, Penn Journal of Arts and Sciences, etc. Ankit is the author of Pinpricks: poems (2022) and editor of Wives: poems (2023). He has a PhD in literature from IIT Roorkee and is currently working with the Department of Higher Education, Haryana. His research on myths, archetypes, posthumanism and postmodern fiction is published with Routledge, Johns Hopkins University Press and Vernon Press. Ankit is an editor at The Hooghly Review, guest editor at Essence & Critique: Journal of Literature and Drama Studies (Bingöl University, Türkiye), and consulting editor with five Routledge journals.
Website: https://linktr.ee/rajankit
Twitter: @ankit_raj01
Instagram: @ankitrajojha1
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4565-7682
