SOUTH ASIAN DIASPORA POETS WHO HAVE READ AND PARTICPATED IN MATWAALA’S READINGS,                                             FESTIVALS, PROJECTS AND PROGRAMS
  1. Afsar Mohammad
  2. Ami Patel
  3. ​Anis Shivani
  4. Anita Nahal
  5. Arangamallika
  6. Ashna Ali
  7. Chandramohan Satyanathan
  8. Debangana Banerjee
  9. Dilruba Ahmed
  10. Diya Kanduri
  11. Geetha Sukumaran
  12. Gopika Jadeja
  13. Indran Amirthanayagam
  14. ​Kalpna Singh Chitnis
  15. Kashiana Singh
  16. Kazim Ali
  17. Kavita Ezekeil Mendoca
  18. Keki Daruwalla – 2015 Poet-of-Honor
  19. Kiran Kapur
  20. Marjan Naderi
  21. Meena Alexander
  22. Meenakshi Mohan
  23. Megha Sood
  24. Meher Manda
  25. Monica Moody
  26. Monica Ferrell
  27. Phinder Dulai
  28. Prageeta Sharma
  29. Pramila Venkateswaran
  30. Preeti Vangani
  31. Raena Shirali
  32. Ralph Nazareth – 2018 Poet-of-Honor
  33. Ramya Ramana
  34. Ravi Shankar
  35. Rohan Chhetri
  36. Sahar Muradi
  37. Saleem Peeradina – 2017 Poet-of-Honor
  38. Sara Garg
  39. Sarah Ghazal Ali
  40. Sasha Parmasad​
  41. Seni Seneviratne
  42. Shadab Zeest Hashmi
  43. Shash Trevett
  44. Shikha Malaviya
  45. Shubh Bala Schleisser
  46. Shweta Rao Garg
  47. Sophia Naz
  48. Srinivas Mandavilli
  49. Srinivas Reddy
  50. Subhashini Kaligotla
  51. Sukirtharani
  52. Sudikshaa Amar
  53. ​Sunayana Pal
  54. Swati Rana
  55. Sweta Vikram Srivastava
  56. Swati Rana
  57. Tarfia Faizullah
  58. ​Umesh Solanki
  59. Usha Akella
  60. Varsha Saraiya-Shah
  61. Vidyan Ravinthiran
  62. Vijay Seshadri
  63. Vikas Menon
  64. Vivek Sharma
  65. Yamini Pathak
  66. Yuyutsu Sharma
  67. Zilka Joseph
UK poets
  1. Jess Mookherjhi
  2. Kavita Jindal
  3. Mona Dash
  4. Prabhu Guptara
  5. Reshma Ruia
  6. Rishi Dastidar
  7. Sohael Patel
  8. Yogesh Patel – 2019 Poet-of-Honor
  9. Shanta Acharya
Mexican:
  1. María Baranda
  2. Ana Belen
  3. Mariana Bernárdez
  4. Fernando Carrera
  5. Elsa Cross,
  6. Manuel Iris
  7. Luis Armenta-Malpica                                                                                                                                        
  8. Jorge Ortega
  9. Bessy Reyna                                                                                                                                             
  10. Natalia Toledo​
African American
  1. Dorothy Randall Gray
  2. Anastasia Tomkin
  3. Cynthia Manick
  4. Marsha Nelson
  5. Loretta Diane Walker 
Native American:
  1. Lyla June
  2. Lucille Long Day
  3. Andrina Smith
Caribbean:
  1. Marianela Medrano
  2. Danielle Legros Georges
  3. Keisha-Gaye Anderson
  4. Bessy Reyna
Asian American:
  1. Allison Albino 
  2. Sun Yung Shin 
  3. Joshua Nguyen
  4. Miho Nonaka 
  5. Pichchenda Bao 
  6. Deedle Tomlinson 
  7. Frances Kai-Hwa Wang 
  8. Bryan Thao Worra 
Dalit: (Included in the initial list)
  1. Sukirtharani,
  2. Arangamallika,
  3. Gopika Jadeja,
  4. Chandramohan Satyanathan,
  5. Geetha Sukumaran.
Palestinian Poets:
  1. Sharif Elmusa
  2. Ibtisam Barakat
  3. Zeina Azzam​
Jewish Poets: TBA