Ven Begamudré (fiction, poetry) was born in South India and moved to Canada when he was six. He writes fiction, non-fiction and poetry. His most recent book is the novel Vishnu Dreams. His story collection Laterna Magika was a best book finalist in the Canada-Caribbean region for the 1998 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize.

Randy Boyagoda (fiction) teaches literature at Ryerson University in Toronto. His writing has appeared in Harpers, The Walrus, and The Globe and Mail.  Boyagoda's debut novel, Governor of the Northern Province (Penguin), was long-listed for the Scotiabank Giller Prize.

Rana Bose (fiction, drama) is an engineer by profession and currently lives in Montreal. His plays have been staged in Canada, the United States, and India. Bose's first novel, Recovering Rude, was published by Vehicule Press. His second novel, The Fourth Canvas, was published by TSAR Publications. http://thefourthcanvas.com/

R Cheran (poetry, Tamil) lives in Toronto. R Cheran’s published anthologies include: The Second Sunrise, The Lord of Death, The Song of Mirage, The Procession of Skeletons, At the Time of Burning and Now, and In the Ceaseless Flow: Hundred Poems by Cheran. His poems will be featured in a forthcoming anthology Wilting Laughter: Three Tamil Poets published by TSAR this fall. http://cheran.net/english.html

Cyril Dabydeen (fiction) is a former Poet Laureate of Ottawa, whose work has appeared in over 60 literary magazines anthologies world-wide. He has written numerous works of poetry and fiction, including, with TSAR, My Brahmin Days (stories), Black Jesus (stories), Stoning the Wind (poetry), Hemispheres of Love, (poetry), and the novel Drums Of My Flesh, which won the top Guyana Prize for Fiction and was nominated for the prestigious IMPAC/Dublin Literary Prize.

Ramabai Espinet (poetry, fiction) was born in Trinidad and has lived in Canada for 25 years. She is a poet, a writer of fiction and essays, a critic and an academic. Her published works include the novel The Swinging Bridge, a poetry collection Nuclear Seasons, and two children’s books, The Princess of Spadina and Ninja’s Carnival. She lives in Toronto.

Zulfikar Ghose (poetry, fiction) lives in Texas and teaches at the University of Texas in Austin. Ghose has published many volumes of fiction and poetry, including The Loss of India, Jets from Orange, and The Violent West. His short story collection Veronica and the Góngora Passion: Stories, Fictions, Tales and One Fable was published by TSAR Publications.

Anosh Irani (fiction, drama) was born and brought up in Bombay, India. He moved to Vancouver in 1998. He is the author of two novels, The Cripple and His Talismans, and The Song of Kahunsha, which was chosen for CBC Radio’s “Canada Reads” in 2007. He is working on a new play, My Granny the Goldfish, for Canadian Stage. http://www.anoshirani.com/

Abid Jafri (poetry, fiction) writes poetry and short stories in Urdu, and has published a poetry collection titled, "Sapney Jaagti AankhoN kay". His Urdu short stories have been published in various literary magazines in India and Pakistan. He edited Urdu weekly Imroze for many years in Canada. Abid Jafri is currently the president of  Writers' Forum.

Sheniz Janmohamed (poetry) is a poet, spoken word artist and freelance writer. She holds an Honours BA (with Distinction) in Religion and English Literature from the University of Toronto. She has recently completed her MFA in Creative Writing at the University of Guelph.  http://www.myspace.com/shenizpoetics 

Surjeet Kalsey (poetry, fiction) is an accomplished Punjabi Canadian author of poetry, short fiction, and drama. In her writings, Surjeet explores the lives of Punjabi Canadian women and communities from aware "immigrant" perspectives. Surjeet published her first collection of Punjabi  poetry titled Paunan Nal Guftagoo in 1979, and has co-edited and translated Contemporary Literature in Translation. She has published two poetry collections in English, Foot Prints of Silence and Speaking To The Winds. Since then she has published six books of poetry with Naam Tiharey (Amritsar 2006) being the latest. Surjeet has also given us four collections of short fiction in Punjabi and English has written and directed and staged seven plays; and produced several articles and dissertations on history, literature, and the status of women in Canada. Surjeet has a pioneering role in developing Punjabi literary and cultural communities in British Columbia and Canada, and has made an important contribution in introducing Punjabi literature to mainstream audiences through translation.

Chelva Kanaganayakam is an English Professor at the University of Toronto and the Director of the Centre for South Asian Studies. He has published Counterrealism and Indo-Anglian Fiction (2002);  Lutesong and Lament: Tamil Writing from Sri Lanka (2001); Dark Antonyms and Paradise: The Poetry of Rienzi Crusz (1997); Configurations of Exile: South Asian Writers and Their World (1995); Structures of Negation: The Writings of Zulfikar Ghose (1993); and written articles on B.S. Johnson, Achebe, Narayan, Rushdie, Ondaatje, Desai. http://www.utoronto.ca/english

Anwar Khurshid (music) is the director of Sitar School of Toronto. His most recent performances include the International Poets Conference in Toronto and Pragya TV in Delhi, India. www.sitarschool.com

Hari Krishnan (dance) is a Toronto-based dancer, choreographer, teacher and dance scholar. He works in a contemporary vein abstracting and drawing elements from a variety of sources and sensibilities. Hari Krishnan's creative output is holistic, combining the allied arts of Bharatanatyam dance, music, theatre and theory with contemporary, urban, post post-modern culture. http://www.indance.ca/

Kwai Li (fiction) was born in Calcutta, India and is the author of The Palm Leaf Fan and Other Stories (TSAR). She lives in Canada. http://www.kwaiyunli.com/publications.htm

Anand Mahadevan (fiction) has taught creative writing at Humber College and the University of Toronto. His debut novel, The Strike, was published in North America by TSAR Publications. http://www.anand-mahadevan.ca/

Ameen Merchant (fiction) published his debut novel, The Silent Raga, in 2007.  He lives in Vancouver, British Columbia, where he is working on his next novel and programming a new Bollywood audio channel for the CBC. http://www.dmpibooks.com/book/the-silent-raga-paperback

Alok Mukherjee is a human rights consultant with a career in community and race relations at Toronto’s school board. He is also the author ofThis Gift Of English: English Education And The Formation Of Alternative Hegemonies In India. He headed the Ontario Human Rights Commission and served on Ontario’s police oversight body. Last spring at York University, he finished the PhD in English for which he and his wife Arun originally came to Canada. He still teaches part-time at York University. http://www.yorku.ca/alumni/profile/mukherjee.htm

Arun Mukherjee is a professor of English at York University. Her current teaching interests are South Asian and Minority Canadian literatures. She is the author of The Gospel of Wealth in the American Novel: The Rhetoric of Dreiser and His Contemporaries (Croom Helm: 1987), Towards an Aesthetic of Opposition: Essays on Literature, Criticism and Cultural Imperialism (Williams-Wallace: 1988), Oppositional Aesthetics: Readings from a Hyphenated Space (TSAR: 1995), and Postcolonialism: My Living (TSAR: 1998). http://www.arts.yorku.ca/english/people/faculty/mukherjee.html

Tahira Naqvi (fiction) lives in the United States. She has been teaching English for nearly fifteen years and has also taught Urdu at NYU and Columbia. Her short stories have been widely anthologized and she has published two collections of short fiction including Dying in a Strange Country (TSAR: 2001). She is working on her first novel. http://www.sawnet.org/books/authors.php?Naqvi+Tahira

Harish Narang is professor emeritus of English Literature at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He is the author of several critical works as well as translations into Hindi of some of the works of Chinua Achebe and M G Vassanji.

Sasenarine Persaud is the author of eight books. He received the 1996 K M Hunter Foundation Emerging Artist Award for his fiction and the 1999 Arthur Schomburg Award for his pioneering of Yogic Realism and his “outstanding achievements as an author, poet and literary theorist.” Persaud’s fiction, essays and poetry have been published in Canada, England, India, The Middle East, the United States, and the West Indies.

Ajmer Rode (poetry, drama, fiction) has published books of poetry, plays, non-fiction, and translations.  He lives in Vancouver and is a member of the Vancouver Punjabi Writers Forum. His latest book Leela, co-authored with Navtej Bharati, is more than 1000 pages long and is being translated into English. http://www.geocities.com/ajmerrode/

Shyam Selvadurai (fiction) is the author of Funny Boy (1994), which won the Books in Canada First Novel Award, and Cinnamon Gardens (1998. He lives in Toronto. http://www.quillandquire.com/authors/profile.cfm?article_id=1083

Nazneen Sheikh (fiction) has written several books of adult and young adult fiction, including the award-winning Tea and Pomegranates, Ice Bangles, Chopin People, Heartbreak High, and Camels Can Make You Homesick and Other Stories. Born in Kashmir, Nazneen Sheikh was educated in both Pakistan and Texas, and has a Bachelor of Arts degree from Kinnaird College, University of Punjab. She lives in Toronto.

Bapsi Sidhwa (fiction) was raised in Lahore, Pakistan, and graduated from Kinnaird College for Women, Lahore. She now lives in Houston Texas. Her five novels: Water, An American Brat, Cracking India, The Bride, and The Crow Eaters have been translated and published in several languages. Her anthology: City of Sin and Splendour [aka] Beloved City.: Writings on Lahore, was published in 2006. http://bapsisidhwa.com/

Nuzhat Siddiqui (poetry) is a Toronto based poet, writer and peace educator. She is the recipient of Urdu International Literary Peace Award from India.

Dr. Khalid Sohail (poetry, fiction) a psychiatrist by profession has been passionately writing for the last two decades. His collections of poems, stories, travelogues, novellas and essays have been published in English, Urdu and Punjabi. His writings are an attempt to share his humanistic philosophy of life. His "Atheism and Humanism Documentary" was aired by CBC in October 2007.
http://www.drsohail.com/

Suwanda Sugunasiri (poetry) is a poet with three collections, Faces of Galle Face Green, Celestial Conversations, and Obama-Ji. He is also the editor of The Whistling Thorn: An Anthology of South Asian Canadian Fiction (1994). His connection to South Asian Canadian Literature dates to 1980, when he was commissioned by the Secretary of State on Multiculturalism to do a cross-Canada survey on the Literature of Canadians of South Asian Origins.  He teaches Religion at Trinity College, University of Toronto and is Founder of Nalanda College of Buddhist Studies (Canada).

Manil Suri (fiction) is the author  of The Age of Shiva, The Death of Vishnu, and other works of fiction. In addition to being published by W. W. Norton in the United States and Bloomsbury in the UK, the novel has been translated into twenty-two foreign languages. Suri was named by Time magazine as a “Person to Watch” in 2000, and he received a Guggenheim Fellowship for fiction in 2004. http://www.manilsuri.com/

Priscila Uppal (poetry, fiction) is the author of five books of poetry: Ontological Necessities (2006), Live Coverage (2003), Pretending to Die (2001)Confessions for a Fertility Expert (1999), and How toDraw Blood From a Stone (1998), all from Exile Editions; and the novel The Divine Economy of Salvation (2002). Her second novel To Whom It May Concern was just released by Doubleday Canada, and a critical study on elegies, We Are What We Mourn, has been published by McGill-Queen’s University Press. She  lives in Toronto. http://priscilauppal.ca/