Asror Allayarov was born in Uzbekistan. He worked as editor-in-chief for ‘Daryo’ and ‘Eastern World’ newspapers in Karshi city of Uzbekistan. Currently, he is working as an editor for ‘Femida’ newspaper. Asror won “Youth life in media” prize in journalism in 2010 and gained “SahityaSree” and “Shan-E-Adab” literary awards organized by India Intercontinental Cultural Association in 2013, 2014. His first short stories collections “A Decision” published in the USA by SBPRA in 2014.This book published in Japan by “BUYMA Books” publishing house in 2015 under the title of ‘Modern Uzbek stories’ in Japanese. His latest short stories collections were published by Alma in Serbian in Serbia.

Asror’s poems and short stories have been published in Bulgaria, Italy, Saudi Arabia, Kazakhstan, Cuba, USA, Kyrgyzstan, Japan, Colombia, Serbia, India, Bangladesh, Argentina, Canada and Chile.His creative works translated more than 30 languages.

Dr. Shamenazis the Author, Co-Author, Editor and Translator of 16 Books. Being a prolific writer, she has a specialization in South Asian Women Writers, Indian Partition Literature and New Literature. She is currently teaching English Literature at RajarshiTandonMahilaMahavidhyalaya, Allahabad. She has taught English Literature and Language at S. S. Khanna Girls’ Degree College, Ewing Christian College, Allahabad University and AIET, Allahabad with a D. Phil in English Literature from the University of Allahabad, India. She has professional experience for more than 16 years. She has contributed poems to many international Poetry Magazines & Anthologies. She is a member of the Editorial Board of many international journals, including Angloamericanae Journal (Macedonia), KJHSS (Azerbaijan) Anglisticum(Macedonia), IJRHS (Jordan), Cyber Literature: An Online Journal, The Context, English Literator Society, Literary Miscellany, Research Access & Expressions, LevureLitteraire (France-Germany-USA).

She regularly contributes articles to Web magazines - Boloji.com, Merinews.com and Globalasia.com. Her blogs are: http://shamenaz.wordpress.com, http://shamenazsheikh.blogspot.in.