Meet the Facilitators

Rheea Rheea Mukherjee, Co-Founder, received her MFA in Creative Writing from California College of the Arts in San Francisco. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Ultra Violet, Southern Humanities Review, A Gathering of Tribes, Bengal Lights, Jet Wings International, and CHA: An Asian Literary Magazine. Her previous fiction was a Top 25 Finalist in Glimmer Train's Very Short Fiction Award. Her unpublished collection of stories, In these Cities We Dreamed, was a Semi-Finalist in the Black Lawrence Press, St Larence Book Award, 2011. She has a collection of short stories and is currently working on her first novel. She is a huge fan of Haruki Murakami and generally prefers contemporary writers. She is unabashed in her liking for the cheesier versions of Bollywood movies and has a special place in her heart for the tacky 90s. She refuses to eat anything without raw onion and a good sprinkling of green chili. She also works as a writing and training consultant when not catering to the whims of Nimbu, her pet dog.

Bhumika Anand, Co-Founder, has a degree in Communicative English and a Masters in English. She has been a lecturer, a Corporate Trainer, Editor, Communications Specialist, Events Coordinator, MC, and an erstwhile manager of online communities for over 11 years. Bhumika Her two passions include writing and teaching. She is currently working on the second draft of her first novel and a collection of short stories that deals with gender issues and alternate sexuality. She strongly believes that everyone has a story to tell and most of them, with a little help, can write it well. Her obsession with purple has been known to cause worry amongst family and friends. Her ideal social get-together will include, but is not limited to, intellectual discussion that must be interrupted by loud laughter, and a few glasses of white wine. She is a disinterested cook, a terrible singer, and an intermittent blogger who feels very intensely about grammar and punctuation. She is particularly critical of those who use multiple exclamation marks.

Philip John, Facilitator, has a post graduate degree in Communication from Mudra Institute of Communication, Ahmedabad (MICA). He has over 10 years of experience and has worked in advertising, B2B marketing, corporate marketing and internal communication. He is currently on a sabbatical to pursue writing, teaching and travel. His passions include literary fiction, jazz, communication and culture theory, movies, comics and vintage American commercial art. Writers he admires include Michael Ondaatje, Philip Roth, George Orwell and J M Coetzee. Philip writes short stories, poetry and essays and has been published in Cha: An Asian Literary Journal and Spark. His dream job is to take dictation from Philip Roth for whichever novel Mr. Roth plans to write next but he worries this may not be very lucrative. He considers himself to be one of the most impatient and restless people he knows and he doesn't mean it in a nice way. He likes cats.

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