Team Wise Owl
Dr. Rachna Singh
Principal Editor
Non Fiction, Reviews & Visual Art
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Dr. Mridula Sharma
Senior Editor
Fiction & Poetry
Dr Ranjit Powar
Guest Editor
Neena Singh
Special Guest Editor
(Tanka Special)
At The Wise Owl, our team of editorial professionals work behind the scenes to ensure that our readers have the best possible experience interacting with our magazine. Our talented writers/artists and editors have their hands on the media pulse, and are here to bring you poetry, stories, reviews and articles/essays as well as visual art work on a wide range of topics. Get to know a few of them below.
Dr Rachna Singh
Principal Editor
A doctorate in English literature and a former bureaucrat, Rachna Singh has authored Penny Panache (2016) Myriad Musings (2016) Financial Felicity (2017) & The Bitcoin Saga: A Mixed Montage (2019). She writes regularly for National Dailies and has also been reviewing books for the The Tribune for more than a decade. She runs a YouTube Channel, Kuch Tum Kaho Kuch Hum Kahein, which brings to the viewers poetry of established poets of Hindi & Urdu. She loves music and is learning to play the piano.
Dr Mridula Sharma
Senior Editor Fiction & Poetry
A doctorate in English Literature and an Associate Professor, PG Department of English, MCM DAV College for Women, Chandigarh, Dr Mridula Sharma has authored The Hotel Room: A Collection of Stories. She was the Editor of New Horizons, a UGC Approved, peer-reviewed multidisciplinary journal.
She has also co-edited Scholars In Shakespeare and published research papers in reputed journals. She has recently edited Alfaaz: A Trilingual Anthology by Academicians. She writes regularly for leading newspapers and magazines. She enjoys writing poetry in Hindi & English and story telling.
Dr Ranjit Powar
Guest Editor
Author of Dusk over the Mustard Fields and Living a Good Life. She writes freelance and reviews books for newspapers, most often with her dog Teddy sprawled next to her desk. After serving in the Punjab Civil services, she presently runs a non-profit organization, Nishan Educational Trust, training school teachers in psychological orientation in pedagogy. Deeply involved with humanitarian issues and cross-border peace efforts, she hopes to resume her second passion soon – travelling.
Neena Singh
Special Guest Editor
(Tanka Special)
Neena Singh runs a non-profit working for quality interventions in the health and education of economically underprivileged children. After three decades of contributing to the banking industry, Neena devotes her time to social work and penning poetry. Her haiku/tanka/haibun/haiga/cherita are regularly published in international journals and magazines. She is the author of "Whispers of the Soul—The Journey Within" and "One Breath Poetry—a journal of haiku, senryu & tanka". She lives in Chandigarh, India with her husband and beloved labrador Rumi.