Meena Kandasamy is an anti-caste activist, poet, novelist and translator. She has written books of poems such as Touch (2006) and Ms. Militancy (2010), as well as three novels, The Gypsy Goddess (2014), When I Hit You (2017), and Exquisite Cadavers (2019). Her novels have been shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction, the International Dylan Thomas Prize, the Jhalak Prize and the Hindu Lit Prize.

She has been a fellow of the University of Iowa's International Writing Program, a Charles Wallace India Trust Fellow at the University of Kent and a fellow of the Berlin-based Junge Akademie. In 2022, she was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (FRSL), United Kingdom.

Her op-eds and essays have appeared in The White Review, Guernica, The Guardian and The New York Times, among other places.

N. VENUGOPAL is a poet, literary critic, journalist, public speaker and translator with thirty-two books, both in
Telugu and English and as many in translation, to his credit. After being in mainstream journalism for more than twenty years, he started his own alternative small magazine, Veekshanam, a monthly journal of political economy and society, which has been published for the last twenty years.