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13 authors in the NortheastReads catalog

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A. C. Kharingpam

A. C. Kharingpam is Asst. Professor Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi. Currently, he is also the Asst. proctor and Honorary Asst. Coordinator, University Foreign affairs of the University.

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Abokali Jimomi is the author of the picture books Bobo and the Worms and What's My Mother Tongue? published by Pratham Books. Her short story and poems have been published in the anthology by Zubaan Books, The Many That I Am. She has also co-produced Yenguyelei Qa - The Silent Field, a documentation of agricultural songs and stories of the Sumi oral traditions. She loves looking at cloud-covered mountains and enjoys reading with her children.

Alina Aier is a nom de plume of Imlijungla Aier. She is 16 years old and is a committed bibliophile and foodie. Her adoration for reading books invokes a magical cosmos of a sanctuary for her characters, which comes alive when she writes. Aside from sonnets, Alina loves writing short stories, and she believes stories are an approach to keeping mankind alive. She is frequently seen bustling with her paintbrushes and resorting to music when she isn't with her books.

Anjum Hasan is an Indian author and poet. She was born in Shillong, Meghalaya, and currently resides in Bangalore. Hasan has written several novels, short stories, and poetry collections, often exploring themes of identity, love, and urban life. Her notable works include "Lunatic in my Head," "Neti, Neti," and "The Cosmopolitans."

Ankush Saikia (born 1975 in Tezpur, Assam) is an Indian author. He grew up in Madison, Wisconsin; Assam; and Shillong, Meghalaya. Saikia has previously worked as a journalist at India Today, indiaabroad.com, and Express India, and as a senior editor in the publishing firm Dorling Kindersley (India). He was shortlisted for the Outlook–Picador India non-fiction writing award (2005), and was one of the recipients of the Shanghai Writers' Association's 2018 fellowships. He has also written features and long-form pieces (mostly on North East India) for Tehelka, Scroll.in, Hindustan Times, fountainink.in, The Caravan, Assam Tribune, Eclectic Northeast, DailyO, Indian Express, The Hindu etc. His 8th book, The Forest Beneath the Mountains, an environmental novel set along the borderlands of Assam and Arunachal Pradesh in North-East India, and his 9th book, Tears of the Dragon (the 4th book in the Detective Arjun Arora series), were both published by Speaking Tiger Books, in March 2021 and February 2023, respectively.

Anungla Zoe Longkumer

ANUNGLA ZOE LONGKUMER can best be described as a free individual discovering her way through creative pursuits in music, writing, filmmaking, and folk traditions. Having travelled and lived outside Nagaland during most of her life, she is currently based in Dimapur, Nagaland, where she freelances doing some content editing, music and filmmaking. She is the author of Folklore of Eastern Nagaland (2017), that comprises translations of folktales, folk songs and real-life accounts, collected from the six tribes who inhabit the more remote districts of Eastern Nagaland.

Aruni Kashyap is a writer and translator. He is the author of the novel The House With a Thousand Stories (Viking, 2013) : set against a series of widespread extra-judicial killings conducted by the Indian government during the late nineties to curb an armed insurgency in the Indian state of Assam. He has also translated from Assamese and introduced celebrated Indian writer Indira Goswami's last work of fiction, The Bronze Sword of Thengphakhri Tehsildar, for Zubaan Books (2013). He won the Charles Wallace India Trust Scholarship for Creative Writing to the University of Edinburgh in 2009. His short stories, poems and essays have appeared or forthcoming in The Oxford Anthology of Writings from Northeast, The Kenyon Review, The New York Times, The Guardian UK, the Hindu, Evergreen Review, Karthika Review, Juked, Sin Fronteras Journal, Stonecoast Review, The Atticus Review, and others. He is an Assistant Professor Creative Writing at University of Georgia, Athens.

Arupjyoti Saikia

Arupjyoti Saikia is a professor of history at the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati. He held the Agrarian Studies Programme Fellowship at Yale University and visiting fellow positions at Cambridge University and School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. Saikia is the author of Forests and Ecological History of Assam, 1826-2000 (OUP, 2011), A Century of Protests: Peasant Politics in Assam since 1900 (Rutledge, 2014) and The Unquiet River: A Biography of the Brahmaputra (OUP, 2019). His A Century of Protests won the Srikant Dutt book prize awarded by the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi in 2015. The Unquiet River was short-listed for Kamala Devi Chattopadhayay Book Award in 2020 and long listed for Atta Galatta-Bangalore Literature Festival Book Prize in 2020 and got 'Honorable Mention' for Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy Book Prize in 2021 given by the Association of Asian Studies.

Asenla Yanger Ozukum

Asenla Yanger Ozukum is a book reviewer, academic & a doctoral scholar, who describes herself as a literature professor by profession, a poet in the making & a baker by passion. She currently works as a principal of a college in Dimapur.

Asok Pillai was born in Chayang Tajo, Arunachal Pradesh, in 1975. He did his schooling and college education in Arunachal Pradesh and Shillong, Meghalaya, and currently works as the copy editor of The Arunachal Times newspaper, based in itanagar, Arunachal Pradesh.

Avinuo Kire lives in Kohima and works at the State Resource Centre for Women, under the Government of Nagaland. . Avinuo's writing exudes a unique blend of poetic lyricism and profound storytelling, capturing the essence of human emotions and experiences.

Azahto Kiba, a former engineer, underwent a spiritual metamorphosis after a life-altering battle with a brain tumor, leading him to become the senior Pastor and Reverend at New Life Church. His compelling journey from a secular background to a spiritual calling is shared in his book, offering inspiration and a testament to the transformative power of faith in the face of adversity.