Nikita Deshpande is a poet, novelist, screenwriter, and a new-ish twin mama. Her poetry has appeared in several magazines, including poets.org's Poem-A-Day, Only Poems, Paranoid Tree, The Prose Poem, The Bombay Literary Magazine, and in the anthology ‘The World That Belongs to Us’. She won the 2023 Srinivas Rayaprol Poetry Prize and was awarded a 2015 Vermont Studio Center Fellowship to work on her fiction. She is also the author of a novel, It Must've Been Something He Wrote, published by Hachette India in 2016.

Ravikumar Kashi is a contemporary Indian artist, writer and educator, known for his interdisciplinary approach to art. Kashi blends intellectual rigor with artistic practice, and he employs diverse mediums, including painting, sculpture, photography, and installation, with a notable emphasis on paper.

Roma Chatterji is a visiting professor at the Sociology Department, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Shiv Nadar University. She is the author of Writing Identities: Folklore and the Performing Arts of Purulia(2009), Speaking with Pictures: Folk Art and the Narrative Imagination in India (2012, 2016) and Graphic Narratives and the Mythological Imagination in India (2020).

Sandra Elizabeth is a PhD scholar in the department of Sociology, at Shiv Nadar University, Delhi NCR. Her research explores environmental anthropology; She is interested in “Watery Environments” — wetlands, swamps and deltas and the ways in which these environments defy binary categorizations: dry/ wet, land/ water. She is currently doing fieldwork in Kuttanad, Kerala, studying the relationship between water control projects and agriculture in the region.

Shweta Upadhyay is an arts journalist and co-author of the photobook 'I'll be looking at the moon, but I 'll be seeing you'. Formerly she has worked as the Assistant Editor at ART India magazine and Art Editor at Time Out Delhi. Her photobook received the Alkazi Photobook Grant and was shortlisted for Paris-Photo - Aperture First Photo book award.

Spriha Gupta is a heritage scientist and independent art historian whose work focuses on the material histories of art — pigments, dyes, ceramics, painted surfaces, and the tools and techniques through which artworks are made. Trained in archaeology, conservation, and art history at institutions including The Courtauld Institute of Art, Leiden University, and New York University, her research brings together technical art history, experimental archaeology, and scientific analysis. She has worked on the study and conservation of artworks and artefacts across museums, archaeological sites, and laboratories in India, Europe, and Southeast Asia. Her interests lie in reconstructing historical making practices and tracing the lives of materials through craft traditions, trade, and artistic exchange.

Stuti Bhavsar is a visual practitioner, writer, and copyeditor based in Vadodara with a focus on print and material cultures, visuals and time as vectors, and edge conditions. Her writings have been published by ASAP | art, Kochi-Muziris Biennale Foundation, Museum of Art and Photography, and Serendipity Arts Foundation, among other platforms.

Sudeshna Rana is an independent writer, editor and researcher based in India, working in print and digital publishing. In 2022, she won the South Asia Speaks literary fellowship in creative non-fiction to investigate Dhanbad, a mining town where she grew up. She is also the co-founder of Poorvanchal aur Palayan, an online archive on migration in and around East India, supported by the 2023 Serendipity Arts Virtual Grant.

Zeenat Nagree is an independent writer and curator who grew up in Bombay and now divides her time between India and Canada. Having studied art history in Chicago, she writes on contemporary art and curates exhibitions. My Summer Vacation, her first novel, was published by Vehicule Press this year.