Earth and Embers – South Asia in Verse

Rachel Bari, a retired professor of English from the Department of English, Kuvempu University, Karnataka is an academician, poet and short story writer. Her poems and short stories can be found in Poetry Today, Poet crit, Poetry Globe anthology, The Literary Criterion, Muse India, and Sethu, among others.

Educationist, author and poet Dr Ishmeet Kaur Chaudhry is an associate professor at the Department of English Studies at Central University of Gujarat, Kundhela, Vadodara. She is the editor of Remembering the Past: Critical Perspectives on the Anti-Sikh Violence of 1984 (2025), Black November: Writings on Anti-Sikh Massacres of 1984 and the Aftermath (2019) and other books. She has published three collections of poems.

Shweta Rao Garg is a poet, artist and an academic. Her poetry collection, Of Goddesses and Women, was published by Sahitya Akademi in 2021. She is the author of the graphic novel, The Tales from Campus: A Misguide to College, published by Crossed Arrows. Her poems have been published in Postcolonial Text, Transnational Literature, Alimentum: The Literature of Food, Coldnoon, Muse India, Indian Literature, among others.