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Sukirat

Sukirat Anand is a Punjabi writer who writes under the mononym Sukirat. He has published works in Punjabi across genres including short stories, travel writing, and political and social commentary, with a total of 10 volumes to date. He was born in Amritsar, Punjab, on 23 March 1956. He completed his early education in India and later went to Moscow, Russia, for higher studies. He has also self-translated some of his work into English, which has been published in Indian Literature (Sahitya Akademi) and in the anthologies Same-Sex Love in India and The Greatest Punjabi Stories Ever Told. His memoir of his time in Russia has also been published in English under the title A Time to Remember: My Years in Russia.

Supriya Kaur Dhaliwal

Supriya Kaur Dhaliwal is a writer and literary translator, born in Palampur, India. She studied at St. Bede’s College, Shimla; Trinity College, Dublin; and Queen’s University, Belfast. Her poems have been translated into Arabic, German, Italian; and have appeared in Ambit, Bad Lilies, Banshee, Cyphers, Gutter, Oxford Poetry, Poetry Ireland Review, Poetry Jukebox, Poetry London, Rattle, The Irish Times, and elsewhere. In 2018, she was selected for Poetry Ireland’s Introductions Series. Supriya was the 2021 Charles Wallace India Trust Fellow at the University of Kent. She was awarded the fellowship to develop a series of poems tethered to the life and work of Norah Richards, the Irish theatre practitioner who called the erstwhile Punjab and the Dhauladhars her home. She is the author of The Yak Dilemma, published by Makina Books. Supriya is currently based in Manchester, where she is working towards a practice-based PhD at Manchester Metropolitan University’s Centre for Place Writing. Her research explores reservoirs as engineered ecologies shaped by memories of displacement, control, and transformation.