Tejaswinee Roychowdhury is based in West Bengal, India, and is currently pursuing a PhD in Law at the University of Calcutta. She writes fiction, poetry and creative nonfiction, which have appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies, such as Weekly Humorist, Mythic Picnic, Taco Bell Quarterly, Fiery Scribe Review, The Bayou Review, Muse India, Lightning Strikes: An Anthology of Flash Fiction by Fifty Indian Writers, My India, My Gods Vol. 2, Amity: poems and more. Tejaswinee also captures the occasional photograph, one of which made it to a Stanchion cover. Incarnations, her collection of fourteen very short stories, is part of the Mythic Picnic MPTSP V11: Collection (2025). She has edited The Bare Book Bones of Speculative Fiction (2026) and is a founding editor of the EBSCO-indexed magazine, The Hooghly Review. Her fiction has been longlisted for the 2024 Wigleaf Top 50 and nominated for the 2022 Pushcart Prize and the 2025 BOTN Anthology.
Website (for now): https://linktr.ee/tejaswinee
She is best reached via X @TejaswineeRC or Instagram @tejaswineerc.
Ankit Raj Ojha is a poet, writer, editor, translator and academic from Chhapra, Bihar, India. A former software engineer, he has a PhD in English from IIT Roorkee and is an assistant professor of English with the Department of Higher Education, Haryana. His writings have appeared in Poetry Wales, Poetry Scotland, The Honest Ulsterman, Indian Literature, Routledge, Johns Hopkins University Press, and elsewhere. Ankit is the author of Pinpricks (2022) and has edited Wives (2023) and The Bare Bones Book of Humour (2026). He is also a founding editor of the EBSCO-indexed magazine, The Hooghly Review, has guest-edited a special issue of Essence & Critique: Journal of Literature and Drama Studies (Bingöl University, Türkiye), and is a consulting editor with several Routledge and Springer Nature journals. Ankit won the 2023 Briefly Think Essay Prize, was a finalist in the Sundress 2023 Broadside Contest, and made the top 1% in the Wergle Flomp Humour Poetry Contest 2023.
Website: ankitrajojha.com
Twitter: @ankit_raj01
Bluesky: @ankitrajojha.bsky.social
