MASTHEAD

Prospectors

EDITORS

The task of the editors is cut outfrom discovering ice in distant afternoons to transporting glass churches into a newly found land. To do so they will have two months for paring nails, one month for accepting interventions and one month for discovering signs taken for wonders before letting each new issue enter the world.

Amit Saha

Bellwether

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF | Dr. Amit Shankar Saha

Author of three books of poems, Balconies of Time (2017), Fugitive Words (2019) and Illicit Poems (2020); two non-fiction books, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Essayist (2023) and Transitions: Indian Diaspora and Four Women Writers (2023); and co-editor of a short-story collection Dynami Zois (2018). He is also the Head of the Department of English at Seacom Skills University. More at https://amitshankarsaha.com

Email: hod.english@seacomskillsuniversity.org

Jagari Mukherjee

Coxswain

CHIEF EXECUTIVE EDITOR | Jagari Mukherjee

Award-winning author of ‘Blue Rose’ (Bhashalipi 2017), Between Pages (Cherry-House Press 2019), ‘The Elegant Nobody’ (Hawakal 2020) and ‘Wine-Kissed Poems’ (with Ampat Koshy) which ranked #2 on Amazon Bestsellers List. A DAAD scholar, Bear River alumna and Best of the Net nominee.

Email: manage.eklreview@gmail.com

Vanguard

EDITORIAL BOARD

Nikita Parik

Nikita Parik

Nikita Parik is the 2022-2023 Charles Wallace Visiting Fellow at the University of Stirling. Her third book, My City is a Murder of Crows (2022), has been nominated for the Sahitya Akademi Yuva Puraskar, and shortlisted for the Rabindranath Tagore Literary Prize. She has recently presented talks, readings, and workshops at SOAS University of London, University of Kent, and University of Stirling.

Email: nikki.parik@gmail.com

Sufia Khatoon

Recipient of The Kavi Salam Award, Sufia Khatoon is a poet, editor, translator, facilitator, curator, visual artist. Co-Founder of Rhythm Divine Poets community. Author of ‘Death in the Holy Month’ (Shortlisted for Sahitya Akademi Yuva Puraskar 2020).

Email: rhythmdivine.sufia@gmail.com

Anindita Bose

Anindita Bose has co-written ‘The Virtual Reality’. Her Solo Poetry book is ‘I Know the Truth of a Broken Mirror’. She is a Coordinator for the Chair Poetry Evenings, Kolkata.

Email: aninditabose.bms@gmail.com 

Driftwoods

READERS

Somrita Urni Ganguly

Somrita Urni Ganguly is a professor, and award-winning poet and literary translator. She was a Fulbright Doctoral Research Fellow at Brown University, and her work has been showcased at the London Book Fair.

Email: blessed.damsel@gmail.com

Huzaifa

Huzaifa Pandit

Huzaifa Pandit holds a PhD in Comparative Resistance Poetry from the University of Kashmir.

Email: huzu84@gmail.com

Kripi Malviya

Kripi Malviya is an intersectional mental health therapist, psychologist, advocate, experienced curator and poet.

Email: kripi.psychoid@gmail.com

Sana Tamreen Mohammed

Sana Tamreen Mohammed is an acclaimed poet published across the world. She was featured in a radio show, co-authored “Kleptomaniac’s Book of Unoriginal Poems” (BRP, Australia) and edited a prose and poetry anthology.

Email: tamreen.sana@yahoo.in

Aakriti Kuntal

Aakriti Kuntal is a poet from Gurugram, India. She was awarded the Reuel International Prize 2017 for poetry and was a finalist for the RL Poetry Award 2018.  Her poem Lilith was nominated for the Best of the Net 2018-19.

Email: aakriti.kuntal@gmail.com

Ritamvara Bhattacharya

Ritamvara writes from Darjeeling. She writes for the ‘I am’ in her heart, in her heart, a voice that creates ripples and sensation. Paradoxes in life are what inspire her to write.

Email: ritamvara@gmail.com

Urvashi Mukherjee

Urvashi is a full-time poet and a part-time scholar who loves engaging with words, both written and spoken. A student of literature, she is currently engaged as a freelance content writer.

Email: urvashi.firefly@gmail.com

Nabanita Sengupta

Authored and published – a work of translation, A Bengali Lady in England (2020, Hawakal), an e-book of fiction The Ghumi Days (2021, Juggernaut), Forthcoming and co-edited – an anthology of critical essays Understanding Women’s Experiences of Displacement (Routledge) and a poetry anthology from IPPL Voices and Visions (Virasat)

Email – nabanita.sengupta@gmail.com