The list of Eastlit contributors July 2013 is alphabetical by first name.
Binita Bhattacharya
Binita was born in Kolkata, India. Having graduated in Commerce from the University of Kolkata and obtaining a professional degree from the Institute of Company Secretaries of India, she has been working in Corporate Compliance for a reputed company in Kolkata. Writing fiction is her way to depict the various shades and layers of the modern version of a traditional social system of which she is a descendant.
Charlie Canning
Charlie Canning taught English for ten years at three universities in Japan before enrolling in the PhD program in creative writing at the University of Adelaide. He has published a novel on Japan’s Shikoku Pilgrimage of 88 Temples (The 89TH Temple, 2012) and a three act play set in Australia called The Cranial Equity Loan. “Ramirez” is an another chapter from his second novel, The Sign of Jonah.
Dan Asenlund
Dan Asenlund was born in Stockholm, Sweden, in 1981, but quickly dreamed himself away and longed for bigger adventures. He spent a year in Detroit, Michigan, in high school and later moved back to the United States to pursue a degree in Journalism at the University of Oregon. He ended up not only double-majoring in Japanese, but developed a life-long passion for all things Japanese. He first set foot in the land of the rising sun in 2004 as an exchange student in Tokyo and later came back to work as an English teacher in Saga, Kyushu, between 2007-09. He then tried his luck as an actor in Tokyo and spent three years in South Korea pursuing his other big passion: film making. He is now back in Tokyo, writing screenplays and fiction.
Dawnell Harrison
Dawnell Harrison has been published in over 70 magazines and journals including The Endicott Review, Fowl Feathered Review, The Bitchin’ Kitsch, Vox Poetica, Queen’s Quarterly, The Vein, Word Riot, Iconoclast, Puckerbrush Review, Nerve Cowboy, Mobius, Absinthe: A journal of poetry, and many others.
Also, she has had 3 books of poetry published through reputable publishers titled Voyager,The Maverick Posse, and The fire Behind my Eyes.
James Underwood
James Underwood is a poet and English teacher from the Great Lake State of Michigan. After graduating from UMBC in 1995 with a BA in English Literature, he moved to Southeast Asia, where he has lived and travelled since. This is his first publication.
Kislay Chuahan
Kislay Chauhan is a computer engineer belongs to a little town of India. He 25 year old, he has written four poetry books so far ” Takhir,” ” The Vague.” ” Once and For All” and ” The Edges of The Spirit”.
Rembrandt Ramilo
Rembrandt Ramilo was an Editor- in- Chief during college. He studied graduate courses in Public Affairs,and had a teaching job in College before, but now is a private English tutor and businessman.
Rose Lu
Rose Lu (Bing hua) is a famous poetess. Her original name is Lu Lihua. She is currently an accountant in Maryland. She is the author of This is Love, and Roses by the Stream.
Her poems are beautiful, fluent and pure. The poet’s inspiration is clearly derived from nature. She always uses different natural elements in simple yet powerful images. Each poem is also a statement about her life, that has made readers nod, smile, and cry.
Ms.Lu’s poetry has won several awards. Her poem The Heart Of A Lotus won the Gold award in the “love story” world-wide Chinese poem contest in 2010; Her poems It’s Neither Frivolous Nor Drifty and A Fan won the Award on the theme of Belief in Love at the XXXI World Congress of Poets in 2011.
Sinlaratn Soontornviset
Sinlaratn Soontornviset is a photographer covering Thailand. Her published works include the Lifetime and Feelings series. Some of her work can be seen on Soontornviset’s photo-art page on the website Confusionism.
Steve Rosse
In 1988 Steve Rosse took a break from a career in the New York City film and television industry for a three-month holiday on Phuket, an island off the Western coast of Thailand in the Andaman Sea.
He decided he liked Phuket more than he liked New York, and without any idea of what he’d do for a living, he took up residence on the island. He supported himself, and eventually his wife and children, for most of the next decade as a freelance journalist and columnist.
His column, “The Rock”, appeared in The Nation, Thailand’s Independent Newspaper, every Sunday for five years.
In 1997 he moved to Iowa for the surfing.
T-net Quiring
T-net Quiring is a graduate of Economics from the University of the Philippines. She has been a banker for seven years. She writes short stories, rooted from passion and self-expression.
Tom Sheehan
Sheehan served in the 31st Infantry Regiment, Korea 1951
and graduated from Boston College in 1956. His books are Epic Cures; Brief
Cases, Short Spans; A Collection of Friends; and From the Quickening. Recent
eBooks from Milspeak Publishers include Korean Echoes, 2011, nominated for a
Distinguished Military Award and The Westering, 2012, nominated for a
National Book Award. His newest eBook, from Danse Macabre-Lazarus-Anvil,
2013, is Murder at the Forum, an NHL mystery novel, with two more mysteries
due for 2013 publication, Death of a Lottery Foe and Death by Punishment.
His work is in many publications including Rosebud (6th issue), Ocean
Magazine (8th issue), and other global publications such as The Linnet’s
Wings in Ireland (6th issue), Nazar Look in Romania (7th issue)
MGVersion2Datura in France (3rd issue), Mythaxis in UK (2nd issues), In
Other Words – Merida in Mexico (4th issue), 3 AM Magazine in France (9th
issue), etc. He has 8 western collections in a publishers queue with
fabulous covers by his sons.
Tony Concannon
Tony Concannon grew up in Massachusetts. After graduating from college with a B.A. in English and American Literature, he taught in Japan for the next 18 years. Since returning to the United States, he has been working in human services. Stories of his have appeared in The Taproot Literary Review, Down in the Dirt, Eastlit and Litro.
