Author biographies
Aravind Adiga was born in Madras in 1974 and was raised in Australia. He studied at Columbia and Oxford Universities. A former correspondent in India for Time magazine, his articles have also appeared in publications like the Financial Times, the Independent, and the Sunday Times. He lives in Mumbai. The White Tiger, his first novel, won the 2008 Man Booker Prize.
Emma Jones was born and raised in Sydney, Australia. She holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Sydney, and a PhD in English from the University of Cambridge. In 2005 she won the Newcastle Poetry Prize, Australia’s largest prize for a single poem, and has been the recipient of an emerging writer’s grant from the Australia Council for the Arts, and the Harper-Wood Studentship in English Poetry and Literature from St John’s College, Cambridge. In 2009 she was appointed Poet-in-Residence for the Wordsworth Trust.
James Maskalyk is an assistant professor in the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Medicine and a founding editor of the medical journal Open Medicine. He lives in Toronto.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie was born in 1977 in Enugu, Nigeria. She studied medicine and pharmacy at the University of Nigeria then moved to the US to study communications and political science at Eastern Connecticut State University. She gained an MA in Creative Writing from Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore. After initially writing poetry and one play, For Love of Biafra (1998), she had several short stories published in literary journals, winning various competition prizes. Her first novel, Purple Hibiscus, won the 2005 Commonwealth Writers Prize (Overall Winner, Best Book), and was shortlisted for the 2004 Orange Prize for Fiction. Her second novel is Half of a Yellow Sun (2006), set before and during the Biafran War. It won the 2007 Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction.
Tristram Stuart has been a freelance writer for Indian newspapers, a project manager in Kosovo, and prominent critic of the food industry. He has made regular contributions to television documentary, radio and newspaper debate on the social and environmental aspects of food. His first book, The Bloodless Revolution: Radical Vegetarians and the Discovery of India, was published in 2006 to great critical acclaim.
Evie Wyld grew up in Australia and London. She is a graduate of the Creative Writing MA at Goldsmiths University. Her stories have been published in Goldfish: An Anthology of Writing from Goldsmith, the National Maritime Museum anthology Sea Stories and in the 3:AM Magazine anthology, London, New York, Paris. She lives in London.
