Divya Dubey is the publisher of Earthen Lamp Journal (www.earthenlampjournal.com), a literary e-journal from India and the editor/instructor at Authorz Coracle (www.authorzcoracle.com). She also conducts creative writing workshops online and otherwise. She ran her own trade publishing firm, Gyaana Books, from 2009-14. Occasionally she reviews fiction and non-fiction for several publications such as the Hindustan Times, Livemint, Biblio, etc. (India); the Asian Review of Books (Hong Kong) – some of the reviews republished by The Asian Writer (UK); the Asia Literary Review (Hong Kong), Wasafiri (UK), the New York Journal of Books (US) and India Currents magazine (US). A few of her short stories and articles have appeared in Out–of-Print magazine, Muse India, Reading Hour, Kindle Magazine, Urban Voice 4, The Bookseller (UK), Scroll, The Hindu Literary Review, the Hindustan Times, Indo-Asian News Service, Pravasi Bharatiya, All About Book Publishing, Book Link, The Publisher’s Post and Chicken Soup for the Indian Couple’s Soul (Westland Books). The digital version of Turtle Dove was brought out by Juggernaut Books in 2016. She has an MA in English from St Stephen’s College, University of Delhi and an MA in Publishing from Oxford Brookes University, Oxford. She was a finalist for the British Council Young Creative Entrepreneur Award, Publishing, 2010.
Besides writing, publishing and reviewing books, she dabbles in interior styling, tarot reading and ceramic painting.