ZAINAB S QAZI
columnist, Frames of Return
Zainab is a media student passionate about all things literature, culture, films, and politics. In her free time, she loves to yap, eat, scroll, and read endlessly. The Shadow Lines, This is Us, and Joyland changed her life, and she has not been the same person ever since.
For more yapping, she can be reached at zainabsqazi82@gmail.com or on her Instagram handle, @zainabbqazi, where she posts occasionally but is active via DMs at all times.
SPANDANA
columnist, Frames and Flashes
Spandana is a lawyer and a cinephile. Law anchors her, but, cinema sets her free.
Her column Frames and Flashes explores films through personal experiences and unfulfilled fantasies.
When she’s not dissecting legal judgments, she’s imagining her Oscar acceptance speech.
RACHEL ATCHLEY
columnist, Letters Addressed to the Fire
Rachel Atchley is an Alabamian writer whose work has appeared in several literary magazines. She also writes a videogame column for Videodame and a movie column for For Page and Screen Magazine.
Twitter: @rickit
PRITHIVA SHARMA
columnist, Captain’s Orders
Prithiva Sharma is an almost graduate in English Literature, who spends her time whining, procrastinating, whining about procrastinating, and making bad puns about her course being ‘lit.’ She goes around talking about how Macbeth was ruined by four women and how Captain America deserves more than the world. She also writes, sometime, oftentimes, all the time really. She likes turquoise, balloons, orchids and fairylights. You can find her work somewhere on the net, just search the right spelling. You can contact her at prithivasharma@gmail.com
Twitter: @prithiwaah
Instagram: @prithiwaah
Tumblr: @givemeanythingnow
POORVI AHUJA
columnist, Cinesthetica
Poetry. Films. Talismans. Incense Sticks. Clear Stream… She has prepared a 101-list of emotions that are often disguised as objects. You may meet her at an obscure café, comfortably nestled in a book or scribbling the season away in an even more obscure journal with rivers of espresso. Tree-gazing and reckless dreaming are her two most sacrosanct indulgences. Most days she allows herself to be seeped into the aroma of her books, shutting up herself inside the tender verse, in the pine with all things the world declines. She writes at https://poorviahuja.wordpress.com/author/poorviahuja/.
Instagram: @synecdoche_in
JOHN REY DAVE AQUINO
columnist, Riding The Wave
John Rey Dave Aquino is a bi/queer Filipino writer and K-pop fan of five years. SEVENTEEN is his current ult group: Vernon is his bias and ‘96 line are his wreckers. His playlist also includes Monsta X, Wanna One, and EXO, among others. He reads BL graphic literature, watches gaming content creators on YouTube, and movies and TV shows wherever they can be found. When he isn’t fanboying, he’s imagining, reading, writing, and/or despairing. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Language and Literature, and because he’s written dozens of academic essays, he writes more fiction nowadays. He doesn’t mind if you look around johnreydave.carrd.co.
Twitter: @johnreydave
JAYANT BAKSHI
columnist, The Fool’s Gold Mouthpiece
There is a higher probability of Oasis getting back together than Jayant not having a pair of overpriced earphones on his person. A quizzer and debater, music has been part of his prep sessions as much as the peanut M&Ms he keeps stocked in the back of his book shelf. He’s a firm advocate against art elitism; just don’t say that Phir Hera Pheri was better than the original.
EKTA RATHORE
columnist, “from love to matrimony in a moment”
Ekta likes sunflowers, saris and, of course, books (or you would not find her here, would you?) For a living, she researches law and histories of gender and sexuality, and hopes to get into a PhD program soon. Ekta also crafts stories, and complains a lot about juggling academic and creative writing. She hopes to find a comfortable balance between the two. One day, she will.
Ekta can be reached at ektadrathore@gmail.com, or on instagram at @drollstoy.
ANUSHKA BIDANI
columnist, a.m.
Anushka Bidani is a poet & essayist from India. You can find her at www.anushkabidani.com.
Past Columnists: Vedang Lata (Feast of the Fools), Vaishnavi Sharma (“from love to matrimony in a moment”), Tiana Gaudioso (simmering molasses), Keana Águila Labra (Closed Captioning), Justin(e) Norton-Kertson (Unimatrix Zero), Hannah Madonna (TV Taught Me How to Feel).