Some of the eminent contributors appearing in the back volumes of JLA are listed below:

Wole Soyinka, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Clarence Major, Anne Stevenson, Ruth Padel, John Silkin, Homero Aridjis, Nadir Aziza, John Kinsella, Mihai Ursachi, Haroldo De Campos, Enis Batur, Nissim Ezekiel, Keki N. Daruwalla, Jayant Mahapatra, R. Parthasarathy, O. N. V. Kurup, Sugatha Kumari, Kamala Das, Sitakant Mahapatra, K. Ayyappa Paniker, K. Satchidanandan, Meena Alexander, Sujatha Bhat, Ranjit Hoskote, Alda Merini, Eva Zekker & Robert Sullivan.

Mulk Raj Anand, Shashi Despande, Mahasweta Devi, Amrita Pritham, M. G. Vassanji, Jasmine Gooneratne, Serge Liberman, Krishna Sobti, Nabaneeta Dev Sen, Bonophul, Indira Goswami, U.R. Anandamurthi, Mridula Garg, M. T. Vasudevan Nair, M. Mukundan, Sharankumar Limbale, Gangadhar Gadgil, Manoj Das, Pratibha Ray, Jayakanthan, Naveen, Lakshmi Kannan, Bama, Sanjukta Das Gupta & Shanta Acharya.

John Russell Brown, Paul Sharad, Ian S. Macniven, K. R. Srinivasa Ayengar, M. K. Naik, Krishna Rayan, Pramod K. Nayar, D.V. Shahani, John Oliver Perry, Gerhard Stilz, Alessandro Monti, Norman Samms, Cecile Sandten, Prema Nandakumar, Charu Sheel Singh, Swapan Majumdar, Swapan K. Banerjee, Florence D’Souza, Manju Jaidka, Ralph Yarrow, Jain Marcus, Rajnath, Rajakrishnan, P. P. Raveendran, Jason Camlot, Anna Jackson & Syamala Narayan.