George Mathen, also known as Appupen, is a noted graphic novelist and artist from Bangalore, India. Appupen's recent comics 'Dream Machine' Is A Graphic Odyssey Into The Depths Of AI—world's first comics book on AI. An artist and comics creator, Appupen has carved a niche for himself with his diverse interests, distinctive styles, and a penchant for socio-political commentary through the lens of mythological world-building.

Ikroop Sandhu is an animator and illustrator based out of Dharamshala. She has written and drawn several short stories for graphic narrative anthologies published by Yoda Press and HarperCollins. She enjoys teaching and has taught life drawing and animation at NIFT (Kangra) and IIAD (Delhi). Inquilab Zindabad, a Graphic Biography of Bhagat SIngh from Simon and Schuster is her debut graphic novel.

Vishwajyoti Ghosh is the author of the graphic novel ‘Delhi Calm’, a political graphic novel set in the 70′s and a visual book of postcards ‘Times New Roman & Countrymen’. Ghosh is also the creator of the cartoon column ‘Full Toss’ in Hindustan Times Edit Page, every Sunday, besides his earlier columns like Backlog in Little Magazine and Acid Test in Down to Earth. His comics are regularly published in various journals and anthologies, both in India and Abroad. Associated with ‘Inverted Commas’ a communications initiative, he is currently working on a mapping project in the workers' clusters of Gurgaon.

Anupam Roy is an artist, visual storyteller, and an activist.His core research engages with aesthetics and politics of image, collective art practices; issues concerning the relationship between land and labour; discourses of representational impossibility, the body as a witness, and the representation of violence in contemporary times. Currently, Anupam is working as an Assistant Professor, Department of Art, Media and Performance, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Shiv Nadar Institution of Eminence, Delhi-NCR. Before that he worked at Kiran Nadar Museum of Art”, Saket, New Delhi, India; as documentalist and archivist of their entire art collections.

Samhita Arni is an Indian writer who writes in English. She is best known for her adaptations of Indian epic poetry. She started writing and illustrating her first book The Mahabharatha - A Child’s View at the age of eight. The book then went on to be translated in seven languages and sold 50,000 copies worldwide. Her second book – Sita’s Ramayana – was on the New York Times Bestseller list for Graphic Novels for two weeks in 2011.

Rajani Thindiath was the Editor-in-Chief of one of India’s largest comics publications, Tinkle Comics for a decade and has been a writer/scriptwriter for over two decades. She has written and published two graphic novels (SuperWeirdos: Whoosh! and YogYodhas: Warriors of the Spirit) and has been nominated twice for the 'Best Writer' Award at Comic Con India. She is an AVGC (Animation Video Games Comics industry) 40 Under 40 Winner and a recipient of the Sahitya Ratna Sammaan award by the Writers and Journalists Association for her contribution to Children’s Literature. ​She is a TEDx speaker and was a juror at the British Fantasy Awards (2022) and the Publishing Next Awards (2021).

Pinaki De is a multiple award-winning graphic illustrator-designer who regularly works for renowned publishers like Penguin Random House, Harper Collins, Hachette, Routledge, Primus, Oxford University Press, Singapore University Press (NUS), Bloomsbury, Orient Blackswan, Worldview, Pan Picador, Simon and Schuster, Permanent Black, Alchemy, Sage, Roli, Sahitya Academy, Rupa and many others. He has designed almost 500 book covers till date. He is the winner of PublishingNext prize for the best book cover design in India twice in 2017 and 2019. His book cover for “Kalkatta” by Kunal Basu won the prestigious Oxford Bookstore prize for the best cover design in India at Jaipur Literary Fest 2017. His layout design on Satyajit Ray’s archival manuscripts has drawn accolades from all across the globe. A Charles Wallace Trust Fellow, his Ph.D. is on comics theory. Pinaki is one of the editors of the prestigious annual magazine “Longform” (Published from Harper Collins, 2018) which is generally regarded as the first global comics magazine from India.

Debkumar Mitra studied mathematics and is a Gordon M. Fisher Fellow from the University of Toronto. But he loves to call himself a comics curator, editor, reviewer and fan. Mitra is also a sci-tech columnist and does workshops on the narrative structures of graphic tales. Debkumar is a math major who regularly dabbles in recreation mathematics and edits the children’s magazine Next Step. His first work ‘Mindstretch’, a book on mathematical puzzles and miscellany, was published by Penguin India in 1994. Debkumar Mitra is one of the editors of LONGFORM: An Anthology of Graphic Narrative from Penguin India.

Milee Ashwarya is the Publisher of the Adult Publishing Group at Penguin Random House India and leads the frontlist and backlist publishing programmes for the group under imprints like Allen Lane, Vintage, Hamish Hamilton, Viking, Ebury Press, Penguin Business, Penguin Classics, Penguin Ananda, Penguin Veer and so on. She heads one of the largest editorial teams in publishing in Asia with about 30 editors publishing under diverse lists. During her career, she has published a range of bestsellers across genres. An award-winning publisher, her focus has been on championing diverse voices, discovering talented debut writers, and building on the inclusive programme at Penguin Random House India.

Labani Jangi is an artist and scholar. She is 2020 People Archive of Rural India (PARI) Fellow, and a self-taught painter based in West Bengal's Nadia district. Her visual narratives with the reportage of PARI created a unique voice in illustrated journalism. She is working towards a PhD on labour migrations at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Kolkata.

Avni Sethi is an interdisciplinary practitioner with her primary concern lying between culture, memory, space and the body. She studied Interdisciplinary Design from the Srishti School of Art, Design and Technology, Bangalore and pursued a master’s in performance studies at Ambedkar University, Delhi. She conceptualized and designed the Conflictorium in 2013 and has operated as its Artistic Director from 2013-2023. Trained in multiple dance idioms, her performances are largely inspired by syncretic faith traditions as well as sites of contested narratives. She is interested in exploring the relationship between intimate audiences and the performing body.