The list of Eastlit writers November 2013 is alphabetical by first name. This month we also include artists.

Bob D’Costa

Bob D’Costa: Poet, author educationist, author of four books of poems, A Brutal Sunset, The Ten Commandments, Gods on Earth, Dark Roots writing on love, protest, social issues and quest into philosophy; one novel, Love and Life in a Changing City, on literary fiction, romance and paranormal and No New Mail but Mail from a New Girl in e-book from.

K. A. Abbas categorized Bob’s poems to those of Walt Whitman, Pablo Neruda, Majaz, Mayakovsky, Sardar Jaffri, Faiz Ahmed Faiz. Dr. Krishna Srinivas commented on Bob as Frederick Lorca of India. Rosemary C. Wilkinson, Secretary, World Academy of Arts and Culture, California categorized Bob’s poems to those of Bob Dylan. Bob gives poetry readings at gatherings and takes writers for retreats in the lap of nature.

Bob teaches English to students from Classes V-XII, English for SAT and is also a Counsellor to students going for higher studies to the US as well as being an affiliate to more than sixty US colleges/universities.

Bob has four more manuscripts of ready novels. His genres of stories are paranormal, love and romance, mystery and literary fiction. He resides in Calcutta with his wife Sucheta Ghose and their son, Pablo.

Colin W. Campbell

Originally from Scotland, today Colin is ever-so-lucky to be able to divide his year between homes in Sarawak on the lovely green island of Borneo and faraway in Yunnan in southwest China. He writes short fiction and poetry and spends far too much time on www.colincampbell.org and www.shortstory.mobi

Tse Hao Guang

Tse Hao Guang is from Singapore, and has been published or featured in various anthologies, journals and art exhibitions. He has a chapbook, hyperlinkage, to his name. Currently studying at the University of Chicago, he can be found online at www.vituperation.wordpress.com.

Iain Maloney

Iain Maloney has an MPhil. in Creative Writing from the University of Glasgow and is a widely published writer of prose and poetry. His novel Dog Mountain was shortlisted for the Dundee International Book Prize 2013 and he has recently completed a new novel, The Wasting Embers. For more information see www.iainmaloney.wordpress.com

Jack Kelly

Jack Kelly is a writer and poet. His work is predicated on nature, spirituality, and candid autobiography. His touchstones are Walt Whitman and Robert Frost. He lives in New York.

Joshua Bocher

Joshua Bocher’s poems have appeared or are forthcoming in several journals, including Illuminations,Subliminal Interiors, The Germ, Spinozablue, and The Brown Literary Review.  He lived in Taiwan for over two and a half years, before coming back to America to get his M.A. in East Asian Studies at Harvard.  He currently works for two non-profits that promote public health in Asia and lives with his wife in Somerville, MA.

Kritika Chettri

Kritika Chettri recently completed her Masters in English Literature from St. Stephen’s College, University of Delhi. She is a freelance writer, writing short stories and essays.

Noushin Arefadib

Noushin Arefadib is an Iranian Australian human rights activist. She is a dedicated global explorer and an aspiring photographer and poet.

Preeyakit Buranasin

Writer on weekdays and English teacher on weekends, Preeyakit has a bachelor’s in English and a master’s in English Literature. During his studies, he started writing both in prose and poetry, resulting in works in various genres. He’s an Ananchanok Poetry Award recipient. In addition, he’s a member of Bangkok Community Theatre.

Rembrandt Ramilo

Rembrandt Ramilo was an Editor- in- Chief during college,he has graduate courses in Public Affairs,and has teaching job in College before, and now a private English tutor and businessman.

Robert Paul Weston

Robert Paul Weston is the award-winning author of two novels-in-verse for children, Prince Puggly of Spud and the Kingdom of Spiff and Zorgamazoo (winner of the 2010 California Young Reader’s Medal), as well as the hardboiled fairytale, Dust City, shortlisted for the 2011 Edgar Allan Poe Award for best young adult mystery. His short fiction for adults has appeared in literary journals on both sides of the Atlantic, and has been nominated for the Journey Prize in Canada and the Fountain Award for Speculative Literature in the US. Currently, he is at work on a series of children’s novels in collaboration with Framestore, the largest special effects company in Europe. He lives in London, England.

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.

Xenia Taiga

Xenia Taiga lives in southern China. Her work is in Crack the Spine, Industry Night Literary, Four Way Review, Pithead Chapel, The Molotov Cocktail, The Font, Storm Cellar Quarterly, and other beautiful places.

Zara Adcock

Zara is 16 and lives in Thailand where she feels no shortage of inspiration. She loves to read and write poetry, and experiment with different Eastern Asian forms. Zara is a contributing writer for Approach Hua Hin magazine where you can read the beginning of the children’s novel she is writing, The Sword of Stars. She enjoys exploring and trying her hand at all writing forms except for her biography where she’d rather tell you about the book she just finished reading than herself.