Contributing artists: Sweta Srivastava Vikram

SWETA SRIVASTAVA VIKRAM is an award-winning writer, poet, novelist, essayist, educator and blogger whose musings have been translated into three chapbooks of poetry, two collaborative collections of poetry, a novel, a nonfiction book of prose and poems, and a full-length collection of poems to be published in 2013.

Taj Mahal Review describes her as "A poet with hauntingly beautiful talent."

Sweta has won two Pushcart Prize nominations, an International Poetry Award, Best of the Net Nomination, Nomination for Asian American Members' Choice Awards 2011, writing fellowships, and was short-listed for the Independent Literary Awards.

Sweta has held several artist residencies in Europe and America and worked on collaborative projects with artists from Zimbabwe and Australia.