LoL (Love of Literature)

Guest bio: Eric Tinsay Valles Eric Tinsay VALLES has published the poetry collections  A World in Transit  and  After the Fall: dirges among ruins  in English and Spanish translation as well as co-edited  Get Lucky: An Anthology of Singapore and Philippine Writings ,  Sg Poems 2015-2016, Anima Methodi, The Nature of Poetry, The Atelier of Healing, A Given Grace and Finding God in All Things.  He h...

Guest bio: Sachinthani Ketakumbura is the Editor-in-Chief of The Literary Gazette. She is currently a third-year student at the University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, studying International Studies. She has experience in editing, content writing, and journalism through her previous work. Apart from the magazine, she is also the Co-Founder and Co-President of Poe3LK, a growing poetry network based in S...

Author Bio- Aparna Salvi Nagda Pen or pill? Prescription or description? Caught in her own web, Dr. Aparna Salvi Nagda is a Homoepathic Consultant by day earning her bread and butter through a medical practice in Mumbai. Yet, she yearns for a living with liberal writing and expressing herself through the Word. Finding solace in books both academic and fiction, Aparna is also a teacher by passion,...

Author Bio- Sreya Sarkar Sreya Sarkar is a public policy analyst, journalist, and author. She did her undergraduate studies in Political Science at Kolkata’s Presidency College and post-graduation from Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi. After a short stint in The Times of India and as a college lecturer in Kolkata, she set off to the US for her second Master’s in Political Science at the Un...

Guest Bio- Chyrel J. Jackson and Lyris D. Wallace are Literary visionaries and two-time #1 Ranked Best Selling Amazon Authors. Reared and raised in the South Suburbs outside Chicago. African American Literature influenced their writing and is one of their favorite genres. Both writers write in the spirit of their past great Literary ancestors. Chyrel and Lyris both were Pushcart Nominees in 2021-P...

Guest Bio- Alka Joshi Alka Joshi is the internationally bestselling author of the Jaipur Trilogy:  The Henna Artist, The Secret Keeper of Jaipur  and  The Perfumist of Paris.  Her debut novel,  The Henna Artist,  immediately became a New York Times Bestseller, a Reese Witherspoon Pick and was longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize. It has been translated into 29 languages and is c...

Guest Bio- Joy Mast Joy Mast is a speaker, teacher and author who enjoys writing on faith topics. She lived in Spain and in Washington, DC before returning to her home state of North Carolina where she currently resides. After she experienced healing from compulsive overeating in her early 30’s, Joy wrote a course for women called Releasity, which helps women break free from emotional overeating....

Guest Bio- Radhika Iyengar Radhika Iyengar  is the author of her debut book, ‘Fire on the Ganges: Life Among the Dead in Banaras’. She’s a graduate of Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, New York. Radhika won the Red Ink award for Excellence in Indian Journalism (2018), and has been a recipient of the Charles Wallace India Trust Fellowship, the Sanskriti Prabha Dutt Fellowship and S...

Guest Bio- Zaid Hasan Zaid Hasan is an aspiring author, currently editing his debut novel. It’s an epic adventure story in the High Fantasy genre with elements of Sci-Fi mixed in. Zaid is a proud Muslim-American, born and raised in New York, hoping to explore deep themes and offer new perspectives through his art.

Guest Bio- Lalitha Ramanathan Lalitha is a Finance Manager turned writer. She is an avid blogger and has published her stories with many online platforms and anthologies. She is a 2022 Orange Flower Award Runner-up. Her upcoming debut book on parenting humor will be published by OM Books International. Lalitha lives with her family in Singapore. When not writing, she loves to read, play the violin...

Author Bio- Natasha Sharma Natasha Sharma is a freelance software developer who moonlights as a writer. She has been a voracious consumer of the written word since her childhood and is never without a book (or a Kindle) by her side. A true blue feminist, she is passionate about creating awareness on gender inequality and other social issues. At the same time, her work displays a characteristic str...

Guest Bio- Veena Rao V eena Rao is an award-winning Indian-American journalist and author. Purple Lotus, her debut novel, is a 2021 American Fiction Award winner, a 2021 Georgia Author of the Year finalist, and an award-winning finalist in the multicultural and women’s fiction categories of the 2021 International Book Awards. She is the founding editor of NRI Pulse, an Atlanta-based news publicati...

Guest Bio- Kerry Kriseman Kerry Kriseman is the author of Accidental First Lady: On the Front Lines and Behind the Scenes of Local Politics, published by St. Petersburg Press. The memoir recounts her 22 years as a political spouse to her lawyer-turned-politician husband, Rick Kriseman, St. Petersburg Mayor from 2014-2022. Historical dramas, traveling, scratch cooking, drinking wine, and daily walk...

Guest Bio- Anne Marie Wells Anne Marie's debut collection of poetry,  Survived By: A Memoir in Verse + Other Poems,  was accepted for publication by  Curious Corvid Publishing  and is scheduled for release in April of 2023. Her chapbook,  Mother, (v),  won the 2023 Cinnamon Press Pamphlet Contest and is scheduled for publication in Spring 2024. She won the 2023 Jackson Hole Poetry Box Contest,...

Guest Bio- Kathryn P Carter Kathryn is an educational consultant, children’s book author, and speaker.  Her goal is to elevate, energize and encourage children to become reading rockstas. She is the author of The Lizzie B. Hayes children’s book series about a precocious eight-year-old and three generations of her colorful family. Her historical fiction series is just right for children ages 8-12....

Guest Bio- Damyanti Biswas Damyanti is the author of  You Beneath Your Skin , an Amazon-bestselling crime novel, which has been  optioned for screens by Endemol Shine.  She co-edits the The Forge international literary magazine. Her next,  The Blue Bar , published by  Thomas & Mercer  received a starred review from Publisher’s Weekly. 

Guest Bio- Winnifred Tataw Winnifred, or as most know her by Winnie, is an artist, entrepreneur, and Amazon Bestselling author of her debut series: The Gods’ Scion. Winnie has had a lifelong love of literature and art. She wants to create a beautiful fantasy world with compelling and intriguing characters as a writer. Winnie loves to spread positivity and joy to those around her and look at the wo...

Guest Bio- Ankush Bharti Ankush Bharti is the Chief Operations Officer of Writers' Kalam, India's latest knowledge-based education venture. Also, the Editor-in-Chief of The Holistic Pine, the independent monthly lifestyle international journal released by Writers' Kalam, Ms Bharti, keeps an open mind towards the possibilities of content creation in the new media. She is trained in content writing...

Guest Bio- Rajni Mala Rajni Mala Khelawan is an Indo-Fijian Canadian writer and researcher. She has given numerous inspirational speeches and public readings in Canada and in the Fiji Islands. In addition to being a visiting writer at the University of South Pacific, Fiji Islands in 2011, Khelawan was profiled on hit TV and radio shows such as Bollywood Boulevard, CBC Radio, Omni News, NUTV, and A...

guest bio-Lovelace Cook Lovelace Cook is a storyteller, writer, and podcaster. She worked in NYC for magazine publishing and television, and she worked on feature films in LA while attending film production and screenwriting classes at UCLA and the American Film Institute. She traveled through and lived in India, SE Asia, and the UK from 2013-2016. The books, authors, and films she discovered infl...

Guest Bio- Anuja Ghimire Nepal-born Anuja Ghimire (Twitter @GhimireAnuja) writes poetry, flash fiction, and creative nonfiction. She is the author of two poetry books in Nepali:  Ankur  and Arthaat . She recently published a poetry chapbook in English:  Kathmandu  (Unsolicited Press, 2020). Her poetry chapbook   fable-weavers  is forthcoming from e...

Guest Bio- Landis Wade Landis Wade is a recovering trial lawyer, dog and sports lover, host of Charlotte Readers Podcast, speaker, teacher, moderator, fly-fisherman and author of books and stories whose third book—The Christmas Redemption— won the Holiday category of the 12th Annual National Indie Excellence Awards. He won the 2016 North Carolina State Bar short story contest for The Deliberation...

Guest Bio- Harini Nagendra Harini Nagendra is a professor of ecology at Azim Premji University, and a well-known public speaker and writer on issues of nature and sustainability. She is internationally recognized for her scholarship on sustainability, with honors that include the 2009 Cozzarelli Prize from the US National Academy of Sciences, the 2013 Elinor Ostrom Senior Scholar award, and the 20...

Guest Bio- Shahnaz Ahmed Shahnaz Ahmed's a dentist by profession yet her heart has always been with books. She’s an avid reader and a bookish podcaster.  She dreams of being an author and her first full manuscript is currently in the editing zone.  In her free time, she loves to travel and hang out with family and friends.

Guest Bio- Patrice Gopo Patrice Gopo is an award-winning essayist. Her work has appeared in a variety of publications, including Catapult , Creative Nonfiction , and Charlotte Magazine . She is the author of All the Colors We Will See , a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection. Her debut picture book, All the Places We Call Home , will release in June 2022. Patrice lives with her...