Founding Editor:

Indira Chandrasekhar: Indira Chandrasekhar started writing fiction with an increasing focus on the short story upon returning to India after more than 17 years abroad. She has a Ph.D. in Biophysics and prior to committing to fiction writing she studied the dynamics of biological membranes at research institutes in India, the United States and Switzerland. An anthology of short stories she has co-edited will appear shortly. Links to her published stories are available on her blog – www.indi-cs-blog.blogspot.com.

 

Editors:

Samhita Arni: Samhita Arni was born in Madras, India, in 1984. As the daughter of a diplomat she grew up in India, Indonesia, Italy, Pakistan and Thailand. She is the author and illustrator of the The Mahabharata - A Child's View, (Tara Books, 1996), which has since been translated and published in  German, Italian, French, Portugese, Spanish, Catalan and Greek. Samhita obtained a scholarship to study at the United World College of the Adriatic in Italy, and went on to study Film and Religion at Mount Holyoke College, USA. Her latest work, Sita's Ramayana, a graphic novel developed in collaboration with Patua Artist Moyna Chitrakar was published in July 2011 by Tara Books. Samhita is at work on her first novel, a feminist speculative fiction thriller based on the Ramayana. Links to her short stories are available on her website – www.samarni.com

Mira Brunner: Mira Brunner is a student and a writer who lived in Mumbai, India before moving to New York. She has also lived in Switzerland. Mira has been published in the Prithvi Youth Magazine, the Deccan Chronicle, and Munity East. She was an editor for the Prithvi Youth Magazine, the Deccan Chronicle, and Munity East and the editor-in-chief of Frisk. She is interested in the metafictive and the postmodern, but is convinced of the power of the traditional narrative in expressing complexities of culture and place, and hopes that Out of Print will contain prime examples of subcontinental writing and thought.