Biographies of Poets

Belinda grew up in the midwest, but she has spent most of her adult life in the vibrant culture of New York City. Her first career, as a teacher of special education, led her to the love of communication. She studied art, literature and theatre and has pursued her passions of acting, writing poetry and performing professional voice-overs for more than three decades. She currently enjoys living on the edge of a salt marsh, where life continues to inspire her in new ways.

Sangita Kalarickal is a wordsmith crafting poetry and fiction. Her work has been published in several e-magazines, journals, and anthologies. A physicist by education, Dr. Kalarickal utilizes her left brain at her day job in the field of technology. She writes because she must. Her latest book is Mamina, a collection of poems about motherhood.

Chayanika’s work has appeared in Muse India, Petrichor (Pebbles), Yearbook of Indian Poetry in English 2022 (Hawakal), Madras Courier (forth-coming), Café Dissensus, PikerPress, EKL REVIEW, hākārā, Setu (Pittsburgh), The Assam Tribune, Parcham, Y a w p, The Little Journal of Northeast India, New York Parrot, Indian Periodical etc. and in anthologies like ‘Varna Vaibhav’ (Asom Sahitya Sabha), ‘The Kali Project’, ‘Poetry Unites’, 'Antargatha', 'Ismat' etc. "Mimosa Land (WissenMonk, 2023) and ‘Kor pora kho loi’ (e-kolom Asom Prakashan, 2022) are her poetry collections. She is the founder/editor of popular Assamese e-magazine 'Katha-kanchan'.

Dr Mary Annie A.V, (M,Sc., Ph.D in Zoology) writes under the pen name Anna Maria ( Tvpm). She has been recipient of several acclamations online and her poems have been published in the Illustrated Weekly of India ,(having won the prize at the Shankers International Competition,at the age of five), Mirror, several anthologies,and e-zine magazines in USA,  U.K, and in India, Muse India,  NNN, Thanal Online, Gulmohar, Destiny Poets, featured in The Camel Saloon, Acerbic, Inklinks, Musings a Mosaic and many more in addition to being  featured by Niamh Clune,Jes Mert and a host of others. Her fiction has found way into International e-magazines and anthologies. She pens haiku and has been published on several sites. She is the author of  two collections of poetry My Beads Unstrung (2006) and More Beads Unstrung (2011).