LOL- love of literature - guests inspire Aspiring Authors

  episode 2 video PART 1 PART 2 Sreya Sarkar is a public policy analyst, journalist, and author. She did her undergraduate studies in Political Science at Kolkata’s Presidency College and post-graduation from Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi. After a short stint in The Times of India and as a college lecturer in Kolkata, she set off to the US for her second Master’s in Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. She worked in public policy research and advocacy in U.S. think tanks and non-profits such as Cascade Policy Institute and Heartland Institute before turning into a freelance writer with her fingers dipped in multiple fiction and non-fiction projects. She contributes political and social articles for Indian and U.S. news magazines like The Wire, Scroll, Karvaan India, and American Kahani. She writes columns on Indian American issues for The Quint and Dainik Bhaskar. Her short stories have been published in Indian literary magazines including Ind

 Episode 1 Chyrel J. Jackson and Lyris D. Wallace are Literary visionaries and two-time #1 Ranked Best Selling Amazon Authors. Reared and raised in the South Suburbs outside Chicago. African American Literature influenced their writing and is one of their favorite genres. Both writers write in the spirit of their past great Literary ancestors. Chyrel and Lyris both were Pushcart Nominees in 2021-Poem Love Unspoken, Heartbeats Anthology and 2023, Poem- No Justice for Breonna, Published in Social Justice Inks Anthology. This edgy writing duo is featured in numerous poetry anthologies, Literary Journals, and International Global Magazines. Chyrel and Lyris have published SistersRoc’N’Rhyme Presents Poems in the Key of Life, Mirrored Images and Different Sides of the Same Coin. You will find them always writing. Creating written legacies one book at a time. These two writers have found their voice and can be found on Sistersrocnrhyme.com. VIDEO PART 1 PART 2

 episode Alka Joshi is the internationally bestselling author of the Jaipur Trilogy: The Henna Artist, The Secret Keeper of Jaipur and The Perfumist of Paris. Her debut novel, The Henna Artist, immediately became a New York Times Bestseller, a Reese Witherspoon Pick and was longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize. It has been translated into 29 languages and is currently in development at Netflix as a tv series. Joshi was born in India and came to the U.S. with her family at the age of nine. She has a BA from Stanford University and an MFA from California College of Arts.  video

  episode  video Joy Mast is a speaker, teacher and author who enjoys writing on faith topics. She lived in Spain and in Washington, DC before returning to her home state of North Carolina where she currently resides. After she experienced healing from compulsive overeating in her early 30’s, Joy wrote a course for women called Releasity, which helps women break free from emotional overeating. Her first book, Set Free & Satisfied, is the book form of that course and was released in the fall of 2023. To learn more about the book and course, visit her website at www.joymast.com. Joy graduated from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a degree in Communication Studies. She enjoys reading, bringing friends and family together, the Spanish language, and laughing. Joy and her husband, Steve, a graphic designer, have two daughters.

episode 10 Radhika Iyengar is the author of her debut book, ‘Fire on the Ganges: Life Among the Dead in Banaras’. She’s a graduate of Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, New York. Radhika won the Red Ink award for Excellence in Indian Journalism (2018), and has been a recipient of the Charles Wallace India Trust Fellowship, the Sanskriti Prabha Dutt Fellowship and Sangam House Residency. video

 episode 10 video Zaid Hasan is an aspiring author, currently editing his debut novel. It’s an epic adventure story in the High Fantasy genre with elements of Sci-Fi mixed in. Zaid is a proud Muslim-American, born and raised in New York, hoping to explore deep themes and offer new perspectives through his art.