V Ramaswamy is a Calcutta-based writer (non-fiction essays), editor and translator. He is currently translating the “anti-stories” of the Bengali writer Subimal Misra. Ramaswamy blogs at cuckooscall.blogspot.com.

1st PACIFIC is made up of a team of four closely related friends of Pacific and Asian ancestry who are pioneering Pasifika Lifewriting and PasifikASIAN Lifewriting through an E-Publishing medium.

Please visit http://www.1stpacific.co.nz
Fepulea’i Ulua’ipou-O-malo Aiono (Director/ Lifewriter)
Karen Palupe (Director/ Lifewriter)
Vinepa Aiono (Lifewriter/Researcher)
Kalasa Aiono (Administrator)

1st PACIFIC is made up of a team of four closely related friends of Pacific and Asian ancestry who are pioneering Pasifika Lifewriting and PasifikASIAN Lifewriting through an E-Publishing medium.

Please visit http://www.1stpacific.co.nz
Fepulea’i Ulua’ipou-O-malo Aiono (Director/ Lifewriter)
Karen Palupe (Director/ Lifewriter)
Vinepa Aiono (Lifewriter/Researcher)
Kalasa Aiono (Administrator)

Anushka Anastasia Solomon, is a former Denver Post columnist, and Evergreen, Colorado poet. In 1995, she won the 3rd prize in the IV National New Straits Times - Shell Short Story Competition. A graduate, of Hampshire College, Amherst, Massachusetts, she transferred from the University of Missouri-Columbia’s School of Journalism, to study creative writing under the late Jamaican poet laureate, and professor of writing, Andrew Salkey. Anushka taught English in Malaysia, to