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​Urszula Marciniak

A biologist by passion, a chemist by education, a programmer by profession. She has always loved literature, both reading and writing. Her favorite genres include short stories, fairy tales, song lyrics, limericks, and, above all, haiku.

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Vaishnavi Ramaswamy

Vaishnavi is passionate about nature, animals, creative writing, poetry, photography.

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Vandana Parashar

Vandana Parashar is a postgraduate in Microbiology, an educator and a haiku poet. Her haiku, senryu, and tanka have been published in many national and international journals of repute and has won her many prizes and accolades. Her haiku was also shortlisted for the prestigious Touchstone Award (2020). She is the Associate Editor of haikuKATHA, Feature Columnist for whiptail journal, and part of Poetry Pea's editing team. Her debut e-chapbook, I Am, was published by Title IX Press (now Moth Orchid Press) in 2019 and her second chapbook, Alone, I Am Not, was published by Velvet Dusk Publishing in April 2022.

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Vidya Shankar

Vidya Shankar, Associate Editor with Triveni Haikai India, author of two poetry books, and editor of four anthologies of free verse poetry, is an English language teacher in Chennai. A ‘book’ in the Human Library, she has been featured in a unique coffee table book on inspiring women of Chennai. She finds meaning to her life through yoga and mandalas.

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Vikram Kolmannskog

Vikram is a part of the Earth who practices poetry, meditation, writes and can do other amazing things. His mother was born to Gujarati parents in Kenya, his father is Norwegian. He lives with his husband near the forest outside Oslo. His most recent books are The Garden Tantra (Red River, 2023) and Rhyheim: A Porn Poem (Broken Sleep Books, 2024).

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Vinita Agarwal

Vinita Agrawal is an Indian poet, editor and curator. She is the author of four books of poetry and the editor of an anthology on climate change. She was short listed for the 2018 Rabindranath Tagore Literary Prize for her poetry collection The Silk of Hunger and awarded the prize jointly. She is on the advisory board of the Tagore Literary Prize. She is a poetry editor with Usawa Literary Review.

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Vishal Prabhu

A chemical engineer by education, Vishal Prabhu, has lived an exploratory life through a variety of places and vocations. He has an enduring interest in languages, and uses art as a tool to weave over the unravelling fabric of living. He lives in the mountains.