Dileep Jhaveri (born 1943) is a well-known Gujarati poet and playwright. He has published a book of poems, Pandukavyo ane Itar (1989) and a play, Vyaasochchvas (2003), which was published in English by Seagull Books in 2006 under the title, A Breath of Vyas. His writing has received the Critic’s Award (1989), the Jayant Pathak Award for Poetry (1989) and the Gujarati Sahitya Parishad award (1990). His poems have been widely anthologised and translated into English, Hindi, Marathi, Malayalam, Bengali, Korean, Chinese and Japanese.

Mamang Dai is a poet and novelist. She lives in Itanagar in the North-east Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh. She has one collection of poetry, River Poems, to her credit. Her next collection, Midsummer-Survival Lyrics, is due for publication in 2011. She writes in English.

Yash Sharma is a leading Dogri poet, playwright and lyricist. Although widely known for his lyrical poetry (which he sings in performance), it was not until 1990 that he published his first book of a hundred poems, Jo Tere Man Chitt Laggi Ja. He was sixty-one at the time. The book fetched him the Sahitya Akademi Award. His second book, Bedi Pattan Sanjh Mallah, was published in 2002. He lives in Jammu and continues to write and perform his poetry.