Hilda David is a novelist, stage director, and teacher. Until retirement, she was a professor of English at the Symbiosis College of Arts and Commerce in Pune, and coordinator of the Centre for Liberal Arts, where she taught Advanced Creative Writing, Literature and the Supernatural, and Crime, Law, and Literature. Dr David has been a consultant to the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, coordinated and organised the Ibsen Festivals in Pune and Delhi, and was chosen by the English Speaking Union to represent India at the Shakespeare Workshop in London in 2008. Her works have been translated into Hindi, Urdu, and Kannada. She is the co- editor, with Francis Jarman, of India Diversity (Om, 2017) and Text Wars (Oxford, 2021).

Francis Jarman is a novelist, playwright, and critic. Until retirement, he taught English, comparative cultural studies, and intercultural communication at Hildesheim University, Germany. He has also taught or lectured at more than twenty other universities, in Europe, Asia, and Africa, including being a scholar in residence at Symbiosis, Pune, and a visiting professor at American College, Madurai. Dr Jarman is the co-editor, with Hilda David, of India Diversity (Om, 2017) and Text Wars (Oxford, 2021). His novels, published by Wildside in the US, include the Lemnos science fiction trilogy (2011–16); the historical fantasy series The Gardens of the West (2015–ongoing), and the campus thriller Cold from Your Breath (2019).