Uday Prakash writes poetry, fiction, and journalism and is also a filmmaker and translator. He has published four collections of poetry, eight collections of short stories, and three books of essays. His latest work to be translated into English is a novella entitled The Girl with the Golden Parasol. He began living in Delhi in 1975 and stayed there until 2005, when he moved to nearby Ghaziabad.
Hirsh Sawhney has written for the Times Literary Supplement, the Guardian, Time Out New York, and Outlook Traveller. His parents migrated from Delhi to New York in the 1960s, and he moved to the Indian capital’s Green Park area in 2005. He splits his time between Delhi and Brooklyn and is working on his first novel.
Irwin Allan Sealy is the author of the novels TheTrotter-Nama, Hero, The Everest Hotel, The Brainfever Bird, and Red, and a travel book, From Yukon to Yucatan. He is at work on a narrative poem set in Fatehpur Sikri, a conversation with the Mughal Emperor Akbar. Sealy is a graduate of Delhi University and lives in the foothills of the Himalayas.
Mohan Sikka currently lives in Brooklyn, New York. His story “Uncle Musto Take a Mistress” was published in One Story and won an O. Henry Award. He spent part of his childhood and teenage years in Delhi, where he lived in various railway colonies, including the one adjoining Paharganj depicted in his story “Railway Aunty.” Sikka is completing a story collection and planning a novel.