Tahmima Anam  www.tahmima.com
Tahmima Anam was born in Dhaka, Bangladesh and grew up in Paris, Bangkok, and New York City. She attended Harvard University, where she earned a PhD in Social Anthropology. Her debut novel, A Golden Age, was the winner of the 2008 Commonwealth Best First Book Prize. Her writing has been published in Granta, the Guardian, and the New York Times. She lives in London. For more information, please visit www.tahmima.com.
V. V. Ganeshananthan http://www.vasugi.com/
Vasugi V. Ganeshananthan, a fiction writer and journalist, lives in New York. She is a 2002 graduate of Harvard College. In 2005, she received an MFA in fiction from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and in 2005-2006, she was the Bennett Fellow and writer-in-residence at Phillips Exeter Academy. In 2007, she graduated from the new MA program at the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, where she was a Bollinger Fellow specializing in Arts & Culture journalism. She has written and reported for The Atlantic Monthly, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Sepia Mutiny, and The American Prospect, among others. She is the vice president of the South Asian Journalists Association and a member of the graduate board of The Harvard Crimson. This fall, she is a writer-in-residence at Skidmore College. Random House published her first novel, Love Marriage, in April.
Naeem Murr www.naeemmurr.com
Naeem Murr is the author of three novels, The Boy, The Genius of the Sea, and, in 2007, The Perfect Man, which was awarded The Commonwealth Writers' Prize for the Best Book of Europe and South Asia. He has received numerous awards for his work, most recently a Pen Beyond Margins Award and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Born and brought up in London, he has lived in America since his early twenties, and currently resides in Chicago. For more information, please visit www.naeemmurr.com .
Sooni Taraporevala www.soonitaraporevala.com
Sooni Taraporevala was born in 1957 in Bombay, India. After studying at Queen Mary School in Bombay, she received a scholarship to attend Harvard University, where she studied English Literature, Film and Photography. She received her BA from Harvard in 1980 after which she enrolled in the Cinema Studies Department at New York University. At NYU she studied Film Theory and Criticism, received her MA in 1981, after which she returned to India to work as a freelance still photographer. Her photographs have been exhibited in India, the United States, France, and Britain. We will be sceening her debut feature film, Little Zizou. Taraporevala's directorial debut features two Bombay families who both love and hate each other in this rambunctious family drama. This is a rare opportunity to get a sneak peek at this just-completed, delightful film long before everyone else will be talking about it! In 1986 she wrote her first screenplay, Salaam Bombay!, for director/producer Mira Nair. Salaam Bombay! won 25 awards worldwide, was nominated for an Oscar, and earned Taraporevala the Lillian Gish Award from Women in Film. Her second screenplay, Mississippi Masala, also for Mira Nair, won the Osella award for Best Screenplay at the 1991 Venice Film Festival. She lived in Los Angeles from 1988-1991 and wrote numerous scripts commissioned by a variety of producers/directors/studios. She moved back to India in 1992. Her other produced writing credits include the films Such a Long Journey, based on the novel by Rohinton Mistry and directed by Sturla Gunnarsson, which earned Taraporevala a Genie nomination from the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television; My Own Country, based on the book by Dr.Abraham Verghese and directed by Mira Nair for Showtime television which earned her a Shine nomination; and the film Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar directed by Dr. Jabbar Patel for the Government of India and the National Film Development Corporation of India. In 2000 she published a book of her photographs PARSIS: The Zoroastrians of India; A Photographic Journey. A labor of love for over 20 years, the book, a critical and popular success, was out of print within six months. A new edition was published by Overlook Press, NY and Duckworth, UK in 2004 and is currently in print.
Manil Suri  www.manilsuri.com
Manil Suri is a professor of mathematics at the University of Maryland Baltimore County. His first novel, The Death of Vishnu, won the 2002 Barnes and Noble Discover Prize and was a finalist for the 2002 Pen-Faulkner Award. His new novel, The Age of Shiva, was released in 2008 by W.W. Norton in the U.S. and by Bloomsbury in the U.K. and India. He was named by Time Magazine as a "Person to Watch" in 2000 and received a Guggenheim Fellowship for fiction in 2004. His fiction has been translated into 23 foreign languages. For more information, please visit www.manilsuri.com. Manil Suri - Photograph by Jose Villarrubia.
Richie Mehta www.poormansproductions.com/
Richie Mehta arrives with his award-winning feature, AMAL, which began as a short film based on a story written by his brother, Shaun Mehta. With a luminous cast that includes Naseeruddin Shah, Rupinder Nagra, and Seema Biswas, AMAL tells the poignant story of an auto-rickshaw driver who meets an eccentric billionaire searching for one last morsel of humanity in the streets of crowded, anonymous Delhi. Their fateful meeting will change both lives forever. Richie Mehta was born in Toronto and has studied painting, sculpting and directing. He has directed several short films that have screened internationally, including System of Units (04) and Amal (04), which he adapted into his first feature film of the same name.

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