DOUG TANOURY

Doug Tanoury is primarily a poet of the Internet with the majority of his work never leaving electronic form. His verse can be read at electronic magazines and journals across the world. Collections of poetry by Doug Tanoury can be found at: http://home.comcast.net/~dtanoury1/Tanoury.html

Doug Tanoury credits his 7th grade poetry anthology from Sister Debra's English class, Reflections On A Gift Of Watermelon Pickle And Other Modern Verse, (Stephen Dunning, Edward Lueders and Hugh Smith, (c) 1966 by Scott Foresman & Company) as exerting the greatest influence on his work. He still keeps a copy of it at his writing desk.

SALEM SULERI

Born on 27 August, 1963, Salem Suleri has published eight volumes of poetry.  He is a noted young poet of Bangladesh. A journalist by profession, he edits News Bank, Shadakalo ( a journal) and Daily Anandadesh. His poetry has a power to appeal many.

SHRAWAN MUKARUNG

Desh Khojdai Jaandaa (While Searching for the Country) is songwriter Shrawan Mukarung's first poetry collection. It shows the strong influence of progressive literature on the poet's imagination- many of the works focus, with didactic intent, on raising issues of economic and social justice. Some of the more whimsical poems speak more effectively, however, of rural life. Nepal's literature being Kathmandu-centered, it is refreshing to find work which doesn't romanticize country life, depict an over-simplified rusticity, or drown out local stories with grander national aspects of life in the eastern hills, where he originally comes from.                                                                                             -(Manjushree Thapa)

MANJUSHREE THAPA

Manjushree Thapa is the author of the most talked about book The Tutor of History. She has also translated and edited the book of short stories of Ramesh Bikal, an esteemed short storywriter of Nepal.

BEN PESSIKOFF

He is a retired engineer. His poems have appeared in The Quarterly Review of
Literature, the Atlanta, Harvard, Kennesaw, Sarah Lawrence and Texas Reviews,
Literal Latte, Orbis, Pedestal Magazine and a truckload of other journals. His
pursuits are poetry and survival.

He is retired, having been born in1919. His poems have appeared in over 130
print journals and some 40 internet magazines. He can be reached at benpas969@aol.com

SITA PANDEY

Sita Pandey is Nepal's most discussed writer today. Her explosive anthology of short stories Fever brought her to the center of literary commotion in Nepal. Her stories are songs of a famished road where children play with broken earthen pieces instead of moons, where a husband permits his wife to sleep with her former boss before his own eyes, where a girl-child is molested by an old guard whose ugly touch triggers an onrush of torpid fever, where a lover is reduced to a naked child helplessly crawling towards his beloved where a wife's body has been lying like a log in a river for years, where a young girl stuff dreams and desires along with her lipstick rogue into her handbag and adventure into open spaces, to public squares, lanes, streets, looking for  a pair of strong muscular arms that would save her from sinking into snow.                                                                            -(Yuyutsu R.D. Sharma)

YUYUTSU R.D. SHARMA

Recipient of fellowships and grants from The Rockefeller Foundation, Irish Literature Exchange and Sahitya Academy, National Academy of Letters, New Delhi Yuyutsu RD Sharma has published four poetry collections and translated and edited several anthologies of contemporary Nepali poetry in English.  
His works have appeared in Chanrdrabhaga, Amsterdam Weekly, Indian literature, Irish Pages, The Nation, Omega, Howling Dog Press, Iton77, Little Magazine, The Telegraph, Indian Express and Asia week. Yuyutsu has read at Gunter Grass House, Bremen, Sudasien Institute Heidelberg University, Ruigoord, Amsterdam, Academy of Fine Arts, New Delhi, Royal Nepal Academy, Kathmandu, Frankfurt Book Fair, Frankfurt and Indian International Centre, New Delhi and Villa Serbelloni, Italy. Recently he has edited with Michael Annis a Special issue of Omega, the online magazine of Howling Dog Press  (www.howlingdogpress.com/omegs3) on the young Nepali poetry.
 The Library of Congress has nominated his recent book of Nepali translations entitled Roaring Recitals; Five Nepali Poets as Best Book of the Year 2001 from Asia under the Program, A World of Books: International Perspectives. Currently, he’s on his Europe tour to promote his fourth book of poems, The Lake Fewa & a Horse: Poems New (2005). It was released at Frankfurt Book Fair, Frankfurt recently.  Yuyutsu’s work has been translated into German, French, Italian, Hebrew and Dutch. General Editor, Nirala Series, Asia’s largest series of books on Nepal, Bhutan and Himalayan Studies, Yuyutsu lives in Kathmandu and New Delhi and has nearly completed his first novel. Yuyutsu also writes literary columns every alternate Sunday in Nepal's leading English dailies, The Kathmandu Post and The Himalayan Times and edits a literary magazine, Pratik                                                                                                                                 top