S. Joseph (born 1965) is a Malayalam poet with four acclaimed poetry collections to his credit. He received the Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award for his first book in 2000. His second and third books were on the shortlist of the best Malayalam books of the year in noted journals and his most recent volume, Uppante Kooval Varakkunnu, won the Thiruvananthapuram Book Fair award for one of the ten best books of the year 2009. He works as a lecturer in Malayalam at Maharaja’s College, Ernakulam.

Tabish Khair (born 1966) is a poet, novelist and essayist. His significant poetry collections include Where Parallel Lines Meet (2000) and Man of Glass (2010). Born and educated in the state of Bihar, he worked in Gaya and New Delhi as a reporter with The Times of India, and later moved to Copenhagen where he worked on a PhD on “Babu Fictions: Alienation in the Indian English Novel”. He has received the All-India Poetry Prize for some of his poems and an honorary fellowship in creative writing from the Baptist University of Hong Kong. His academic papers, reviews and essays have appeared in various prominent journals and newspapers. He now lives in Aarhus, Denmark.

Teji Grover (born 1955) is a Hindi poet, painter, translator and environmental activist. She has published five collections of poetry, one novel and a collection of short stories. She has received the Bharat Bhushan Agrawal Award (1989) and the Raza Award for Poetry (2003). Her poems have been translated into a number of Indian and foreign languages, including Swedish and Polish. She has also translated several Scandinavian and Indian writers into Hindi, as well as several Hindi writers into English.