Beena Kamlani is a Pushcart Prize-winning fiction writer whose work has appeared in Virginia Quarterly Review; Ploughshares; Identity Lessons: Learning to Be American, eds. Gillan (1999); Growing Up Ethnic in America, eds. Gillan (2000); The Lifted Brow (2008); World Literature Today; and other publications. She has been awarded fellowships at Yaddo, MacDowell, Ledig House/Writers Omi, Hawthornden Castle, Jentel Arts, and Hedgebrook. A former senior editor for the Penguin Group, she taught book editing at New York University for nearly two decades and was presented an award for teaching excellence. The English Problem is her first novel.

Before founding her eponymous literary agency, Beth Davey spent over 25 years as a vice president and director of publicity and corporate communications at major publishing houses, including Penguin Random House and Little, Brown. She also served as a client consultant at Inkwell Management, a leading literary agency. Throughout her career, Beth has worked with an impressive roster of authors, including David Sedaris, James Patterson, Michael Connelly, Anita Shreve, and Malcolm Gladwell. In 2010, she decided to combine all of her publishing skills and founded Davey Literary & Media, representing a wide range of acclaimed authors and numerous New York Times bestsellers, most recently The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man: A Memoir by Paul Newman and the current New York Times bestseller, The Never List by Jade Presley. 

India Cultural Center (ICC) is a nonprofit organization serving the communities of Fairfield and Westchester counties that celebrates the arts and culture of India. As part of its mission, ICC showcases the depth and breadth of talent and contributions of South Asians to the community and beyond.