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Yuyutsu Sharma
Yuyutsu Sharma is one of the few poets in the world who make their living with poetry.
Named as “The world-renowned Himalayan poet,” (The Guardian) “One-Man Academy” (The Kathmandu Post) and “Himalayan Neruda” (Michael Graves, Brand Called You), Punjab-born, Yuyutsu is a vibrant force on the world poetry stage.
He is also recipient of fellowships and grants from The Rockefeller Foundation, Ireland Literature Exchange, Trubar Foundation, Slovenia, The Institute for the Translation of Hebrew Literature and The Foundation for the Production and Translation of Dutch Literature.
Author of eleven poetry collections, most recently, The Alchemy of Nine Smile: Nine Longer Poems and Lost Horoscope, Yuyu has read his works at several prestigious places and held workshops in creative writing and translation worldwide.
Half the year, he travels and reads all over the world and conducts creative writing workshops at various universities in North America and Europe but goes trekking in the Himalayas when back home.
Yuyutsu curated Himalayan Literature Festival 2024 in collaboration with New York Writers Workshop in Kathmandu. He edits Pratik: A Quarterly Magazine of Contemporary Writing.
More: www.yuyutsusharma.com
Tim Tomlinson
Tim Tomlinson is the author of the chapbook Yolanda: An Oral History in Verse, the poetry collection, Requiem for the Tree Fort I Set on Fire, the short story collection, This Is Not Happening to You, and, most recently, Listening to Fish: Meditations from the Wet World, a hybrid collection of poetry and prose. Recent work appears in The Bangalore Literary Magazine, EKL Review, Flash Boulevard, and Pratik: A Magazine of Contemporary Writing. Tim is the director of New York Writers Workshop, and co-author of its popular text, The Portable MFA in Creative Writing. He teaches writing in NYU’s Global Liberal Studies.
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Ruth Danon
Ruth Danon’s fourth book of poetry, Turn Up the Heat, was published by Nirala Series in 2023. Her prose and poetry have appeared in many publications in the United States and abroad, most recently in Noon: The Journal of the Short Poem, Sunday Salon Zine, The Nu Review, and The CAPS 25 th Anniversary Anthology. Her work is forthcoming in On the Seawall, The Beltway Quarterly, and the Poetry is Bread Anthology. For 23 years she taught in the Creative and Expository Writing Programs she directed for NYU’s School of Professional Studies. Founder of Live Writing: A Project for the Reading, Writing, and Performance of Poetry, she teaches for Live Writing and New York Writers Workshop. She lives in Beacon, NY, where she curates literary events. She was one of the founding curators of the BeaconLitfest@the Howland.