Guest Bio- Preetha Rajah kannan

Preetha Rajah Kannan lives in Madurai, where she is a homemaker and mother of two.

Guest Bio- Parag Shah

Parag Shah is a techie turned writer. He has diverse literary interests and has begun the writing journey with his first passion: The Mahabharata. Parag has published several short stories from the epic and plans to continue spreading lesser-known stories from Indian Mythology to a wider audience.

Amazon link- https://www.amazon.in/Parag-Shah/e/B09B66RL8S?ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1&qid=1648365098&sr=8-1

Author Bio- Ranjani Rao

Ranjani Rao is a scientist by training, writer by avocation, originally from Mumbai, a former resident of USA, and now lives in Singapore with her family. She is presently working on a memoir. She is co-founder of Story Artisan Press and her books are available on Amazon. She loves connecting with readers at her website and at

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Guest bio- Lalitha Ravindran

Lalitha is the founder of First Forays Literary Agency (www.firstforays.com). She feels she has a karmic relationship with books and stories since she stumbled into publishing after a long and successful corporate career. A chance meeting with an author at a LitFest led her into becoming an agent. She focuses on writers of fiction and non-fiction and also handles book adaptations to films, television and web series.

Guest Bio- Lata Gwalani

Lata is a narrator of human experiences and spends time pondering the how and why of relationships. She has X-ray vision into human psyche, and deduces more than what meets the eye, and is usually wrong. She is wary of people and is highly impressed with Noah for allowing only animals on his ark. She has authored two books – Incognito and Prisoners of Secrets. Her third book was released in January 2022 and has been winning readers since. She has been a corporate trainer for over two decades, specialising in Leadership through Emotional Intelligence. She has done considerable and pioneering work with women in this context.

Guest Bio- Abha Iyengar

Abha is a British Council certified creative writing mentor. She is an award-winning, internationally published poet, author, editor and translator.

Her short fiction, The Marshlands, was shortlisted in the DNA-Out of Print short story contest (2015). Abha's poems have appeared in the Anthology of Contemporary Indian Poets and her fiction in The Indo-Australian Anthology of Short Fiction. Her story, The High Stool, was nominated for the prestigious, Million Writers Award.

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Her published works include Yearnings, Flash Bites, Shrayan, Many Fish to Fry and The Gourd Seller and Other Stories. She has co-edited an anthology titled The Other, which is a collection of 33 stories by several authors on this theme.

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Abha holds Creative Writing Workshops, edits fiction manuscripts and personally mentors aspiring writers. She writes/speaks on motivation, confidence building and finding the creative self.

Guest Bio- Tanushree Podder

A hundred travel tales, 15 novels, and a bagful of dreams – that’s Tanushree Podder. An adventurous soul, she has dabbled in multiple genres like historical, military, crime, romance and paranormal. Two of her books, Boots Belts Berets and The Girls in Green, are soon to be adapted into web series.

Guest Bio- Vidhya Velayudham

Born in coimbatore, did her schooling in Udumalpet. Completed UG in Psychology from Madras University and Masters in Applied Psychology from Bharathiyar University. She was a meditation teacher for 17 years. As of now she is a layout artist with zero degree publishing from its inception. She is a hobby artist who loves to work with pencils.

Guest Bio- Gayathri (Zero Degree Publishing)

Born and brought up in a village near Udumalpet, Tiruppur district.

Studied D pharm. Learning English made her switch over to languages and literature after marriage. Studied MA, Mphil in French in 2010.

Worked in Stella Maris college from 2011 to 2018 as Assistant professor of French. Quit the job to start Zero Degree Publishing with Mr. Ramjee Narasiman. Translated Sudha Murthy's book Here There and Everywhere into Tamil. Translated Anne Hebert's 2 stories from French to Tamil which were published in Vikatan's Thadam and Yaavarum.com.