Kirsten Hemmy’s book of poetry, The Atrocity of Water, was a Tom Lombardo selection for Press 53 (2010). Hemmy is currently completing a book on Muslim women in history (2022). Her poetry has recently appeared in Sonora Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Bellingham Review, Southern Humanities Review, Glass Poetry, and elsewhere. Hemmy, a recipient of the Linda Flowers Literary Award for Poetry, is a two-time Fulbright scholar (2003 and 2012) who currently lives in the Sultanate of Oman, where she teaches world literature and creative writing at Sultan Qaboos University. Chandrika Balasubramanian’s book Register Variation in Indian English (2009) was one of the first large-scale empirical, corpus-based investigations of variation within an international English. While she predominantly has published on World Englishes, and specifically on Indian English, she has also published on various areas of language pedagogy, and her recent work focuses on the pedagogical implications of World Englishes scholarship. Balasubramanian currently lives and works at Sultan Qaboos University in Muscat, Oman, where she teaches sociolinguistics and language.