Founder, Editor-in-Chief
KAVYA SHARMA
Kavya Sharma is a womanist, poet, and fiction author. She has authored two books, a poetry collection The Carmine Memories, and a fiction novel To Naddiyaa. Her poems have featured in multiple anthologies including Ninety Seven Poems by Terribly Tiny Tales, A Map Called Home by Kitaab Singapore, The 7 Transgressions by Half Baked Beans to name a few. She was among the 100 Most Inspiring Authors of India 2018 by The Indian Awaaz. Her interviews have appeared in various newspapers like Deccan Chronicle, The Sunday Guardian, The Pioneer, BBC Nottingham Radio, and elsewhere. She works as a creative writing trainer for publishing houses, schools, and NGOs.
Magazine Designer
VIDIT SAXENA
An engineering undergraduate from Vellore Institute of Technology, Vidit has designed the previous issues for Verse of Silence. He has worked for Half Baked Beans as the cover designer of the poetry anthology, The 7 Transgressions. He handles design projects for his college department. Currently, he is also working for a telehealth company Any Time Doctor as a Digital Marketing Executive.
Content Curator and Website
Nida Sahar
Nida is techno-entrepreneur, a mentor and a poet. Some of her poetry is published in MuseIndia, Coldnoon (International Journal of Travel Writing & Travelling Cultures), Spark, FWDLife and Anthologies 'Forever You'. Some of her stories are published in Deccan Herald.
She performs at a few open mics and explores different poetic forms. She is a winner of the international SourceCode Poetry competition.
Nida is a feminist and a firm supporter of women in engineering and technology. She regularly volunteers for communities that work on empowering women. When not writing poetry or code, she is managing these communities while working on her startup.
Visual Content and Social Media
Priyasha Saini
Priyasha is an undergraduate management student, she loves to narrate stories and directed a couple of plays (Darj Lamhe and Fake Palindromes, if the name of the plays is required) in the previous year with Fourth Wall Productions. She keenly designs events in her college on almost all occasions.