Contributors with Profiles — Page 31

Rajeshwar Mittapalli is a Professor of English with more than thirty years of teaching experience at universities across Asia, Africa, and Europe. He is also active as a creative writer and translator.

Randall Cooper works in education in Michigan, he is excited to showcase "The Clock" at Piker Press.

Ranjit Kulkarni is a writer of short stories, articles, and novels.

Rebecca Morean is a mother of four, raises a small heard of goats and makes cheese, teaches writing and composition at Sinclair Community College, and wants to right wrongs by writing about wrongs. She has published over two dozen short stories, and her articles and fiction have appeared in Salon, Crone, Kalliope, and Mississippi Mud among others. Her novel, In the Dead of Winter (St. Martin's Press) was picked up as a series by Breese Books in England and is about the daughter of Sherlock Holmes. She is currently the president of the Antioch Writers' Workshop in Yellow Springs, Ohio.

Reeve Chudd is a retired trusts and estates attorney living in Carmel, Indiana. In his youth, he wanted to be writer, but he wasn’t prepared to sacrifice eating for his art. Today, his four academic degrees, along with $4.55, will purchase a grande latte at Starbucks.

Rekha Valliappan is an award-winning multi-genre writer of short fiction and poetry. She holds a MA in English Literature from the University of Madras and a LLB (Hons) from the University of London.

Riana Jicha is a PhD candidate and researcher whose work explores existential philosophy, organizational behavior, and the complexities of human emotion.

Ricardo Visinho is a writer and the author of "The Star of the Revolution," which was published by The Piker Press in 2017. You can follow Ricardo on Twitter at @RicardoVisinho.

Rituparna Khan, an Assistant Professor in Bidhannagar College, Salt Lake, Kolkata, is a Geographer by profession dealing with anything and everything from natural to human phenomena based on a spatial dimension.

Roger Ley was born and educated in London and spent some of his formative years in Saudi Arabia. He worked as an engineer in the oilfields of North Africa and the North Sea, before pursuing a career in higher education.

Roly Andrews lives in Nelson, NZ, in his spare time he enjoys tramping. After many years of practising, he is still trying to learn to play the trombone! A champion for everyone, he has mentored rough sleepers and supported people affected by suicide. He advocates for the rights of people living with disabilities.

Saiprakash Kuntamukkala is an advocate by profession and a poet with passion, hailing from Andhrapradesh, India.

Sam Robinson is a Liverpudlian writer inspired by all things eerie and unsettling. He currently lives in Stockport working as a web developer and hopes to release more strange fiction in the not-too-distant future.

Samantha Swain is a young writer living in the Sacramento area with her family and significant other. She received a graduate degree in Immunology but has since decided to leave science behind in the pursuit of creative writing and studio art.

Samantha Terrell is a published poet who lives near Springfield, Missouri with her husband and two sons. She has been honored to find homes for her work in such reputable publications as: Dissident Voice, Knot Magazine, LaBloga Floricanto, DoveTales by Writing for Peace, the Ebola chapbook by West Chester University, and others.

Saoirse Ni Chiaragain is an Irish writer living in Berlin, Germany. You can find her other work at saoirsenichiaragain.com

Sarah Daly is an American writer whose fiction, poetry, and drama have appeared in twenty-six literary journals including "A Thin Slice of Anxiety," "Ibbetson Street Press," "The Seraphic Review," "Superpresent Magazine," and "Stick Figure Poetry."

Sarah Senft is a writer from Cork, now living in Vancouver, Canada with her husband, four children, and her dog.

Sascha Goluboff is a writer, mother, and academic with a PhD in Anthropology and an MFA in Writing. She lives in Virginia.

Saswat Gautam's attempt to mediate the three-way conflict between economy, environment, and efficiency while practicing Chemical Engineering has translated into his fondness for exploring conflicts — of nations, of ideologies, of people, in one’s mind — in the literary world.

Scott Archer Jones is currently living and working on novels in northern New Mexico, after stints in the Netherlands, Scotland and Norway plus less exotic locations. He's worked for a power company, grocers, a lumberyard, an energy company (for a very long time), and a winery. He is the Treasurer of Shuter Library of Angel Fire, a private 501.C3, and desperately needs your money to keep the doors open.

Sean Lawrence hails from Southern California, where he writes both screenplays and short stories. He's been published a few times and won a few contests. There are rumors he might one day attempt a novel, but he has yet to confirm this.

Shivangi Sharma is a bestselling author, award-winning multilingual poet, and founder of Creatree Books publishing. Her work spans poetry, children’s stories, motherhood humor, and travel writing. She lives in Amsterdam with her family in a home overflowing with books and ideas.

Shobhita Thakur is an alumna of the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII), Pune, where she completed a three-year course in Film Editing. Her journey in the film industry began with working alongside National Award–winning director Rajan Khosa as a Director’s Assistant, an experience that shaped her understanding of storytelling.

Shruti Goel is a marketing graduate from the University of Calcutta and a Curtis Brown Creative alum. Her words have found a home in Grazia, Lifestyle Asia, and Femina, as well as in TEDx talks, a co-authored Scholastic anthology, and her self-published poetry chapbook Flawed Pages.