Arvinder Kaur (born February 8, 1959, Jullundhar, Punjab, India), author, poet, and translator. Was employed as an associate professor of English literature and media studies and administrator at several colleges in India. Has placed highly in online kukai and international contests. Guest edited The Haiku Dialogue feature of The Haiku Foundation and the journal Failed Haiku. Has published four collections of Japanese-style short poetry in English and Punjabi. Resides in Chandigarh, India.

Neena Singh (born Neena Malik, November 8, 1956, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India), corporate banker (retired), social activist, and poet specializing in Japanese short forms. Her poetry has appeared in major print and online publications. One haiku shortlisted for a Touchstone Award for Individual Poems (2021). Published two books: Whispers of the Soul: The Journey Within (2016) and One Breath Poetry: A Journal of Haiku, Senryu & Tanka (2020). Guest editor of The Wise Owl literary e-zine. Serves on Triveni India's kukai team and writes a column in Rhyvers literary magazine. Currently resides in Chandigarh, India.

Ram Krishna Singh, PhD (born December 31, 1950, Varanasi, India), retired university professor and prominent English-language poetry author, critic, and editor. Published 60 books, including a dozen volumes of haikai, tanka, and micropoetry, many in bilingual editions. His Knocking Vistas and Other Poems appeared in 2024. Widely published in journals and anthologies in India and abroad, also has published criticism of Indian and Western poery and edited a dozen literary and language publications. Garnered many international literary prizes and honors; resides in Dhanbad, Jharkand, India.

Shloka Shankar (born May 23, 1989, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India), Indian poet, editor, publisher, and visual artist. Published poems and artwork in more than 200 venues. Founding editor of Sonic Boom and Yavanika Press; founding member of Triveni Haikai India; assistant editor of Human/Kind; and panelist for the Touchstone Individual Poems Award. Books include Points of Arrival (2021), The Field of Why (2022), and Living in the Pause (collaborative haiga). Won recognition in the Morioka, Yamadera, Polish, Maya Lyubenova, Sharpening the Green Pencil, and Murtha haiku and senryu contests. Resides in Bangalore, India.

Vandana Parashar (born Vandana Mehta, January 2, 1975, Ambala Cantonment, Haryana, India), past part-time lecturer in microbiology, editor, and poet whose haiku, senryu, tanka, and tanka prose are published in national and international journals and have won top awards in international competitions; has had a haiku shortlisted for a Touchstone Award. Published two senryu chapbooks, I Am (2019) and Alone, I Am Not (2022). An associate editor of haikuKATHA, an editor of Poetry Pea and #FemkuMag, and formerly a featured columnist for Whiptail. Resides in Panchkula, Haryana, India.