Instructors:

ANIL MENON’s most recent work Half Of What I Say (Bloomsbury, 2015) was shortlisted for the 2016 Hindu Literary Award. Along with Vandana Singh, he co-edited Breaking the Bow (Zubaan Books, 2012), an international anthology of short fiction inspired by the Ramayana. His debut novel The Beast With Nine Billion Feet (Young Zubaan, India) was shortlisted for the 2010 Vodafone-Crossword Children's Fiction Award and the 2010 Carl Baxter Society’s Parallax Prize. His short fiction has appeared in a variety of international anthologies and magazines, including Albedo One, Interzone, Interfictions, Jaggery Lit Review, Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, and Strange Horizons. His stories have been translated into more than a dozen languages including Chinese, Czech, French, Hebrew, Hindi, Igbo, Korean, and Romanian. In 2009, he helped found the Dum Pukht Writers' Workshop series in Pondicherry. He splits his time between India and the USA and can be reached at [email protected]. 

PERVIN SAKET was shortlisted for the Random House India Writers Bloc Award 2013 and is the author of a novel Urmila (Jaico, 2016), of a children’s series and of a collection of poems A Tinge of Turmeric, (Writers Workshop, 2009). Her novel has been adapted into an acclaimed dance drama featuring classical forms of Odissi, Bharatnatyam and Kathak. Her short fiction has appeared in Journeys (Sampad, UK, 2010), Breaking the Bow – Speculative Fiction Inspired by the Ramayana (Zubaan, India, 2012), The Asian Writer Collection (Dahlia, UK, 2010), Aliens (Prime Books, USA, 2013), Earthen Lamp Journal (2014), Khabar,Love Across Borders – An Anthology by Indian and Pakistani Writers, Page Forty Seven and others. Pervin’s poetry has been featured in Cold Noon, Kritya, Platform, The Binnacle (University of Maine, USA), Veils, Halos and Shackles, Helter Skelterand elsewhere. She is a certified Creative Writing Trainer from British Council, and works as an editor, developing academic books.