Bashabi Fraser is a transnational writer and academic. She moves with ease between her two nations of India and the UK. Her publications include Scottish Orientalism and the Bengal Renaissance: The Continuum of Ideas (2017), Confluence of Minds: The Rabindranath Tagore and Patrick Geddes Reader (2017), The Homing Bird (2017), Letters to my Mother and Other Mothers (2015), Rabindranath Tagore's Global Vision, in a special guest-edited issue of Literature Compass (2015). Her awards include the 2015 Outstanding Woman of Scotland awarded by Saltire Society, Women Empowered: Arts and Culture Award in 2010 and the aio Prize for Literary Services in Scotland in 2009. She has also had a special felicitation given by Public Relations Society of India as a Poet on International Women's Day in March 2017. She is a Professor of English and Creative Writing and co-founder and Director of the Scottish Centre of Tagore Studies (ScoTs) at Edinburgh Napier University. She is Chief Editor of the academic and creative peer-reviewed international e-journal, Gitanjali & Beyond.
Alan Riach was born in Airdrie in 1957. He studied English literature at Cambridge University from 1976 to 79. He completed his PhD in the Department of Scottish Literature at Glasgow University in 1986. His academic career has included positions as a post-doctoral research fellow, senior lecturer, Associate Professor and Pro-Dean in the Faculty of Arts, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand 1986-2000. He returned to Scotland in January 2001 and is currently the Professor of Scottish Literature at the University of Glasgow.