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QLRS Contributors
Anne Carly Abad
Anne graduated from the Ateneo de Manila University. Her works have appeared in the Philippines Free Press, The Sunday Inquirer Magazine, Damazine and Expanded Horizons among others.
Abdul Hamid
Abdul Hamid is currently a final-year student in Yale-NUS College. He dabbles in prose, poetry and plays because he is fickle, and cannot decide. He is owned by three cats.
Afiza
Afiza is a fresh (good) Honours graduate who is available for worthwhile writing opportunities.
Airina Imran
Airina Imran is a 21-year-old media student from Singapore. She likes zombie film-nights, the smell of crisp laundry, basil on most things, and writing.
Adam Aitken
Adam Aitken is a writer/scholar based in Sydney. Born in London of a Thai mother and Australian father, he spent his early childhood in Bangkok and Kuala Lumpur. He is the author of four collections of poetry - the latest, Eighth Habitation, forthcoming from Giramondo Publishing. His work has appeared in Meanjin, Southerly, HEAT, Cordite, and Poetry (USA).
Masturah Alatas
Masturah Alatas is a Singapore-born writer who lives in Italy.
Alfian Sa`at
Alfian Bin Sa'at is the Resident Playwright of Wild Rice theatre company. His published works include the poetry collections One Fierce Hour and A History of Amnesia, as well as the short story collection Corridor. A collection of flash fiction, Malay Sketches, will be published in December 2010.
Serena Alibhai
Serena Alibhai has published short stories recently in magazines such as Quintessence and
Montreal Serai. She has a degree in English Literature from McGill
University and is currently working on a
novel. She is also the President of the Alexandra Writers Centre in Calgary for 2004.
Jov Almero
Jov Almero is a graduate student studying creative writing at the University of the Philippines. He was a fellow for fiction at the 53rd Silliman University National Writers Workshop.
Leo Fernandez Almero
Leo Fernandez Almero is a lawyer by profession, and writes in English, Filipino, and Bikol. His poems and translations were previously published in Sunday Inquirer Magazine, Voice and Verse Poetry Magazine, and BKL/ Bikol Bakla.
Michaela Anchan
Michaela Anchan is a New Zealander residing in Singapore long term. She is halfway through a novel, which is currently taking the form of a rural feminist natural disaster love story, but could change at any moment. She is a contributor to Math Paper Press' recent anthology We R Family and is the founder of Woolf Works, a women's community in Singapore.
Darran Anderson
Darran Anderson is a 25 year old Irish writer from Derry. He has been published with the Prague Literary Review (Czech Republic), Poetry Salzburg Review (Austria), Culture
Northern Ireland, the BBC, Hard Luck Magazine (USA) and
Deaddrunkdublin.
Daniel Andersson
Daniel Andersson runs the poetry magazine Tempo and has had recent work in Brittle Star, Weyfarers, The Interpreters House, The Journal and others.
Ang Shuang
Ang Shuang is a senior year law student at Singapore Management University. Her work has been seen in SingPoWriMo 2016, Words Dance Magazine, and Eunoia Review.
Ann Ang
Ann Ang is best known as the author of Bang My Car (2012), a Singlish-English collection of short stories. She has just published her first collection of poetry, Burning Walls for Paper Spirits (2021) and is also a co-editor of the literary anthologies Poetry Moves (2020) and Food Republic (2020). An academic in her current line of work, Ann researches Anglophone writing in South East Asia.
Remus Ang
Remus Ang is from Singapore and currently lives in Melbourne. He is a student at the University of Melbourne undertaking a Bachelor of Arts and he hopes to major in Philosophy and Creative Writing.
Sarah Ang
Sarah Ang has won multiple international awards, including the Wilbur Smith Author of Tomorrow Award, for the story ‘Pearl Diving’. Her work has also been featured in publications such as Medusa’s Laugh Press and The Claremont Review.
Angeline Ang
Angeline Ang is a struggling writer, artist and student. She likes Daria, Chinese pop, good food, good conversation, wenyi xiaoshuo, Korean dramas and all things Japanese. She is currently working on a Chinese novel.
Edlyn Ang
Edlyn has been published in journals, anthologies and exhibitions in Singapore, Australia
and Hong Kong.
Ang Kia Yee
Ang Kia Yee is a practice of mutual & collective repair based in Singapore. She writes poetry, essays, fiction, and performance texts. She co-creates performances with people, objects, and environments.
Ronn Andrew F. Angeles
Ronn Andrew F. Angeles graduated from the University of the Philippines-Diliman with a degree in English Studies. He was a fellow
for poetry during the 11th IYAS National Creative Writing Workshop. His works have appeared in The Literary Apprentice and The Philippine Star. He is currently working as a Content Development Officer for the
University of the Philippines Information Technology Training Center.
Andre Aniñon
Andre Aniñon is a writer, instructor, and medical technologist from the Philippines. He is currently reading for his master's degree in public health at Silliman University, Dumaguete City.
John Rey Dave Aquino
John Rey Dave Aquino writes from the Philippines. He has published stories in Anak Sastra and The Literary Apprentice. He is a Language and Literature graduate of the University of the Philippines Baguio, and an alumnus of the 17th Ateneo National Writers Workshop.
Nidhi Arora
Nidhi Arora was born and raised in India, spent a decade in Singapore, now calls London home, but far prefers to inhabit the world of fiction. Her work has been featured in journals and anthologies such as Cha: An Asian Literary Journal, Sahitya Akademi, Muse India, Pluto and Popshot.
Flo Au
Flo Au has two master degrees in the fields of Applied Linguistics and English Language in Hong Kong. She is now studying for a third on Literary Studies, specializing in creative writing. She has won the Most Creative Award in Hong Kong's Top Story 2015 awards, and her pieces have also been published in EJ Insight and ChristArt.
Davian Aw
Davian Aw's fiction and poetry have appeared in international magazines, including the final issue of Lontar: The Journal of Southeast Asian Speculative Fiction.
Azrul Hisham
Azrul Hisham completed his A-levels in 2005 at Jurong Junior College, Singapore and is currently serving full-time national service as a firefighter in the Singapore Civil Defence Force.
Catherine Baab
Catherine Baab is an International Fellow at Ngee Ann Polytechnic who teaches creativity and academic writing. In the summer of 2004, she was selected to participate in Bucknell
University's Seminar for Younger Poets. Her poetry has appeared in Richmond and Abroad View
magazines.
Anne Babson
Anne Babson has had work in Connecticut Review, Atlanta Review, Wisconsin Review, Iota and Poetry Salzburg Review. The opera for which she wrote the libretto, Lotus Lives, is touring with the Meridian Arts Ensemble.
Simon Anton Niño Diego Baena
Simon Anton Niño Diego Baena is the author of three chapbooks, most recently Ritual and Other Poems (Blue Horse Press). He has been nominated twice for the Pushcart Prize. His poems have appeared in Poetry Daily, The Bitter Oleander, Osiris, The Columbia Review, The Cortland Review, Hawaii Pacific Review and elsewhere.
He lives in Bais City, Negros Oriental, Philippines, with his wife and child.
Peter Bakowski
Born premature with a hole in the heart in Melbourne, Australia, Peter Bakowski has been writing poetry for 32 years. At the age of eight he fell in love with books and the map of the world.
Oscar Balajadia
Oscar Balajadia is a member of PEN International's Hong Kong Chapter. His previous books of poems are Parnaso, in Tagalog (1991) and Lighthouse, in English (1999).
Desh Balasubramaniam
Desh Balasubramaniam is a young poet. He was born in Sri Lanka and grew up in both the war torn Northern & Eastern provinces. He fled to New Zealand at the age of thirteen with his family on humanitarian asylum. His work has appeared in Overland, Mascara Literary Review, Blackmail Press, The Big Issue and Sunday Times (Sri Lanka) Online. He is currently working on his first poetry collection.
Trina Nileena Banerjee
Trina Nileena Banerjee is the author of Inside a Blue Corridor, a collection of poems published by the Writers' Workshop of Calcutta. Her poetry and other writings have appeared in The Statesman and The Asian Age. She lives in Calcutta and is currently working toward a master's degree in English.
Isabela Banzon
Isabela Banzon teaches literature and creative
writing at the University of the Philippines. She is currently co-editing the Philippines section of an anthology of Anglophone Southeast Asian literature and of criticism of Anglophone South and Southeast Asian literature, with Singapore.
Peter Barlow
Peter Barlow’s work has appeared in Rosebud, The MacGuffin, The Louisiana Review, Underground Voices, Per Contra, and Bryant Literary Review. A former Pushcart Prize nominee, he received his MFA Creative Writing at Fairleigh Dickinson University, and serves as a reader for that school’s journal, The Literary Review.
Christopher Barnes
Christopher Barnes is the author of Lovebites (2005) and is a past winner of a Northern Arts writers award.
Lana Bella
Lana Bella has a diverse work of poetry and flash fiction anthologized, published and forthcoming with more than ninety journals. She resides in the coastal town of Nha Trang, Vietnam with her novelist husband and two frolicsome imps.
Linda Benninghoff
Linda Benninghoff has published two chapbooks, The Street Where I Was A Child and Departures. She has been published in about 25 magazines and journals, and has also done work in Anglo-Saxon.
Alice Bianchi-Clark
Italian by nationality and upbringing, Alice currently resides in Singapore, having lived and worked in Rome, London, Paris, Beijing and Hong Kong. She studied Modern Chinese Studies - Chinese Commercial Law at Trinity Hall, Cambridge.
Shom Biswas
Soumyadipta 'Shom' Biswas has an MBA and a degree in engineering. He is a business consultant and is based out of Bangalore, India. He is also an active community member of the Bangalore Writers Workshop.
Stephen Black
Stephen Black, an American, has also lived in Europe and Asia. Since 2002 he has been based in Singapore, where he continues to work with art, writing, 3D technology and moving images. His photo-journal Bus Stopping (2008) is the first of several planned publishing projects.
Dmitry Blizniuk
Dmitry Blizniuk is a poet from Ukraine. His most recent poems have appeared in Rattle, The Nation, Prairie Schooner, The London Magazine, Guernica, Denver Quarterly, Pleiades and many others. A Pushcart Prize nominee, he is also the author of The Red Fоrest (Fowlpox Press, 2018). His poems have been awarded the RHINO 2022 Translation Prize. He lives in Kharkov, Ukraine.
Boey Kim Cheng
Boey Kim Cheng has published five books of poetry and a travel memoir. He teaches Creative Writing at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore.
Robert Bohm
Robert Bohm lives with his wife Suman in the U.S. and spends a portion of each year in India, her homeland. Bohm has authored two books and two chapbooks, the most recent of which is Uz Um War Moan Ode (Pudding House Publications, 2007), and also has been published in a wide variety of print and online journals.
Adrian Immanuel Bonifacio
Adrian Immanuel was born and raised in Manila. His poetry has been published in Rambutan Literary, Uppagus, and elsewhere.
Andrea Bonnin
Andrea Bonnin is a poet and novellist. His poetry received the first prize in the Genoa International Poetry Festival on 2000. He is one of the ten young poets from Turin included in the anthology Le carte tatuate (2007); Bonnin's first collection Temporali (trans. Storms) will be published in October 2008.
Bob Bradshaw
Bob is a programmer living in Redwood City, CA. Previous work of his can be found at Pedestal Magazine, Eclectica, Asian Cha, Mississippi Review, Lucid Rhythms, Thick with Conviction and Halfway Down the Stairs.
Shelly Bryant
Shelly Bryant divides her year between Shanghai and Singapore. She is the author of six volumes of poetry and a pair of travel guides for the cities of Suzhou and Shanghai. Her translations include Sheng Keyi's novel Northern Girls and Li Na's memoir Li Na: My Life for Penguin Books.
Andrew Burke
Andrew Burke is an Australian poet with eight books to his credit, with his latest being a new and revised Mother Waits for Father Late (Picaro Press, 2010).
Regine Cabato
Regine Cabato is a journalism and creative writing student at the Ateneo de Manila University. Her poetry has been published in Under the Storm: An Anthology of Contemporary Philippine Poetry, Philippines Free Press, and Heights. She hails from Zamboanga City.
Erwin Cabucos
Erwin Cabucos is a teacher of English at Brigidine College, in Brisbane, Australia. He was born and bred in the Cotabato Province of Southern Philippines. He studied Psychology at Notre Dame University, Philippines, and English Education at the University of New England, Australia.
Michelle Cahill
Michelle Cahill is a non-resident Indian who lives in Sydney. Her poetry collection The Accidental Cage was short-listed for the 2007 Judith Wright Prize.
Charles Cantrell
Charles Cantrell, thrice a Pushcart Prize nominee, has poems in recent issues of Wisconsin Review and Snail Mail Review, with others forthcoming in Mudfish, Soundings East, Sandy River Review and others. Cantrell, a retired English teacher, grows prize tomatoes.
Robert J. Cardullo
Robert J. Cardullo’s essays have appeared in such journals as The Yale Review, The Cambridge Quarterly, Cinema Journal and The New Republic. He is the author, editor or translator of numerous books on film and drama, the most recent of which are Film Analysis: A Casebook and Bazin on Global Cinema, 1948–1958.
F. Jordan Carnice
F. Jordan Carnice graduated with a degree in creative writing at Silliman University. His works of poetry have been published in Dark Blue Southern Seas, Montage, Philippines Free Press, Under The Storm: An Anthology of Contemporary Philippine Poetry and many others. He currently works as a corporate communications senior specialist in a food company.
Charmaine L. Carreon
Charmaine L. Carreon teaches at the University of the Philippines Cebu and is currently finishing her graduate studies in Creative Writing at UP Diliman.
Srinjay Chakravarti
A journalist, economist and poet living and working in Calcutta, Srinjay's poetry and prose have been published in newspapers, journals, magazines and webzines in India, USA, UK, Israel and Sweden, including The Telegraph, The Statesman, Indian Express, The Journal of the Poetry Society (India), Snakeskin, Ariga, Eclectica Magazine, Voices, Poetry Kit Magazine and The New Miscellany. His first book of poems Occam's Razor received the SALT literary award from John Kinsella and a literary trust in Melbourne, Australia in 1995.
Derrick Cham Yanwei
Derrick Cham is a 26-year-old civil servant.
Jennifer Anne Champion
Jennifer Anne Champion's first chapbook, A History of Clocks, was released by Redwheelbarrow Books in 2015. Her follow-up collection, Caterwaul, is forthcoming.
Chan Ziqian
Chan Ziqian is studying English Literature at Warwick University in the UK.
Chan Yi Wen
Chan Yi Wen is a second-year business student at the National University of Singapore. She loves travelling, meeting new people and reading, and has recently just discovered the benefits of brisk walking.
Jonathan Chan
Jonathan Chan is a writer and editor of poems and essays. Born in New York to a Malaysian father and South Korean mother, he was raised in Singapore and educated at Cambridge and Yale Universities. He is the author of the poetry collection going home (Landmark, 2022). He has an abiding interest in faith, identity, and creative expression.
Fabian Chan
Fabian Chan is currently serving his National Service in the navy. In junior college, he was involved in the environmental movement as a member of the green council. As a defence merit scholar, he will be serving his bond in the civil service as a defence executive officer after his university studies.
Duana Chan
Duana is an art writer, researcher, and violinist. She read English at Christ’s College, Cambridge, and was also an Instrumental Awards scholar (violin), a Cambridge Commonwealth scholar and recipient of the 2006 NAC-Shell arts scholarship. Duana enjoys liturgical music, mathematics, origami, and Shakespeare.
Carol Chan
No information available.
Sam Chan
Sam has spent far too long out of country and is constantly being asked where he is from. He is currently a teacher and loves what he does.
Stephanie Chan
Stephanie has won national poetry slams in Singapore (2010) and the UK (2012) and has been invited to perform her work around Europe and Southeast Asia. Her poetry has been published in Exile, Rising, Body Boundaries: The EtiquetteSG Anthologies Volume 1 and the first SingPoWriMo anthology.
Mary Jean Chan
Born and raised in Hong Kong, Mary Jean Chan is the author of Flèche, published by Faber & Faber in 2019.
Meira Chand
Meira was born in the UK, and has lived in Japan and India. She has been a Singapore resident since 1997. She has several novels to her name, including The Gossamer Fly, The Last Quadrant, The Bonsai Tree, The Painted Cage, House of the Sun and A Choice of Evils.
Avik Chanda
Avik Chanda has been published in Ascent, Kimera, Spork, Brittlestar, Poetic Voices, Eclectica, Poetry Depth Quarterly and Slant, among others.
Chang Ya Lan
Chang Ya Lan graduated from the National University of Singapore in 2009 with a law degree. She loves writing and enjoys playing tennis.
Hugo Chaparro
Hugo Chaparro has won awards for his fiction and critical work and is a two-time recipient of the Colombian National Poetry Prize. He has translated Shakespeare, writes regular columns on film for several magazines, and is soon to publish both a novel, La Sombra del Incantropo (The Werewolf's Shadow), and a volume of poetry, Escrito en el Tiempo (Written in Time).
Yu Yan Chen
Yu Yan Chen was born in China but moved to New York City at the age of 13. She is the author of the poetry collection Small Hours (New York Quarterly Books, 2011) and won Singapore's Golden Point Award for Chinese Poetry in 2015. She currently resides in Singapore.
Cheng Jiaoyang
Cheng Jiaoyang is a writer based in Hong Kong. Her first book Dangerous Animals (危险动物) was published in 2021. She received the Hong Kong Literary Award in 2016, and the Guangzhou Literary Urban Fictions Award in 2020.
Willie Cheng
Willie Cheng is active in the business, public and social sectors as a board director, advisor and volunteer. He has written several books and articles on corporate governance and the social ecosystem, and has recently ventured into fiction writing.
Bryan Cheong Sui Kang
Bryan Cheong recently graduated from Raffles Institution. He is currently in National Service.
Cheong Lee San
Cheong Lee San works in a telco.
Felix Cheong
Felix was the recipient of the National Arts Council's Young Artist of the Year for Literature Award in 2000. His three books of poetry are Temptation and Other Poems (1998), I Watch the Stars Go Out (1999) and Broken By The Rain (2003). His poems have also been published in the Straits Times and five anthologies of Singaporean poetry. He has recently completed his Masters of Philosophy in Creative Writing at the University of Queensland.
Yu Jia Cheong
Yu Jia started writing while studying mathematics in France as a defense mechanism against the dearth of well cooked white rice. Today she is a data scientist who tries to squeeze in poetry on intentional ambles, in lunch queues, or on the occasional hike.
Carissa Cheow
Founder of Singapore's first labour movement simulation conference, Carissa Cheow is working on her first collection of poems to be read in small spaces. A sophomore at the National University of Singapore, she runs a writers' interest group at the College of Alice & Peter Tan.
Peter Cherney
Peter Cherney is a college student in the United States. His work has also been selected for Paris-based Van Gogh's Ear. Cherney loves reading and writing poetry and playing badminton.
Eileen Chew
Eileen Chew, born in 1976, lives and works in Singapore.
Agnes Chew
Agnes Chew is the author of The Desire for Elsewhere (Math Paper Press, 2016). Her creative writing has appeared in Eastlit, Eunoia Review, Bosphorous Review of Books, and Ricepaper, among others. Born and raised in Singapore, she is currently based in Germany.
Nathaniel Chew
Nathaniel is a children's librarian by day and overthinker by night, hence the writing. His poetry won the Golden Point Award in 2019, and is published in Crazy Little Pyromaniacs (Math Paper Press, 2020). You can find him in the stacks, as in life, getting lost.
Alywin Chew Shee Chiat
Alywin is a photographic subeditor by profession and a lamenting, self indulgent writer during confession.
Chew Yi Wei
Yiwei is currently a PhD student at the National
University of Singapore.
Debbie Chia
Debbie Chia is a first-class honours graduate in Cultural Studies from the University of Melbourne. She has been published in the2ndrule, JUICE and HerStory, a compendium of essays
published by the Singapore Council of Women's Organisations. She is a full-time writer and part-time DJ. Her favourite authors are Walter
Benjamin, D.H. Lawrence and Charles Bukowski.
Christine Chia
Christine Chia Yueh Chin is the author of Separation: A History and The Law of Second Marriages. She is the co-editor of the poetry anthologies, A Luxury We Cannot Afford, A Luxury We Must Afford, and Lines Spark Code. She is a former co-editor of QLRS.
Juliet Chia Suet Ling
Juliet spends her days dreaming of the perfect cookie when she is not thinking about how to give every Singaporean pre-schooler a strong start in life.
Grace Chia Krakovic
Grace Chia is the author of womango (1998) and Cordelia (2012), which has been shortlisted for the Singapore Literature Prize 2014 for Poetry. From 2011-2012, she was the NAC-NTU National Writer-In-Residence. She is currently working on a short story collection and a novel, and is the founder of online women's literary journal, Junoesq.
Chim Sher Ting
Chim Sher Ting is a Singaporean-Chinese writer. She is a Kenyon Review Winter Workshop'23 participant, 2021 Writeability Fellow with Writers Victoria and a 2021/2022 Pushcart and Best of The Net nominee with work published/forthcoming in Prairie Schooner, Pleiades, Colorado Review and elsewhere. Her debut chapbook, Bodies of Separation, is published with Cathexis Northwest Press, and her second chapbook, The Long-Lasting Grief of Foxes, is forthcoming with CLASH! Books.
Chin Jian Xiong
Chin Jian Xiong lives in Singapore and is waiting to enter university. He writes poetry, prose, and wishes he could draw as well.
Joey Chin
Joey Chin is currently pursuing her MFA in the City University of Hong Kong, the first programme of its kind to specialise in diasporic writing. She is interested in etymology and languages.
Nicholas Chng
No information available.
Kristine Chng
Kristine Chng has a minor in creative writing from Nanyang Technological University. Her work has appeared in journals such as Eunoia Review and been included in a specimen paper for the Singapore-Cambridge GCE A-Level.
Geraldine Chong
Geraldine is a physics graduate trying to derive art from science.
Eileen Chong
Eileen Chong is a Sydney poet and writer who was born in Singapore. Her writing has been published in literary journals such as Hecate, Meanjin and Mascara Literary Review. She is completing a Master of Letters at Sydney University and is working on her first collection of poetry. She lives with her husband and two moggy cats.
Amanda Chong
Amanda is a practising lawyer and a previous Foyle Young Poet of the Year.
Choo Shu Jian
Shu Jian is a student (part-time) in Hwa Chong Junior College. He is a big fan of Jay Chou. He won the inaugural edition of the Lee Tzu Pheng Poetry Award in 2002.
Choo Han Fen
Han Fen is a freelance graphic designer who just likes to write.
Choo Yi Feng
Choo Yi Feng is an undergraduate majoring in life sciences at the National University of Singapore. He has previously been published in Curios, the annual student journal of Tembusu College in NUS.
Clara Chow
Clara Chow is a writer and mother of two sons. A former journalist and copy editor with The Straits Times, she now marinates full-time in ideas for fiction.
Michael Chu
Michael Chu has written some short stories with a positive take, but is now re-shifting his focus to furthering himself in management accounting.
Ace Chu
Ace is a writer from Singapore. His work can be found in places like Bone Parade and Tiger Moth Review, among others. He is most definitely an animal person. There’s really only one animal that makes his skin crawl, and it’s the Creatonotos Gangis, specifically when they unfurl their tentacular appendages. It’s tough for him to think about. He is trying to overcome this discomfort, upon which he will become truly unstoppable.
Grace Chua
Grace Chua is a journalist with The Straits Times. Her poems have been published in QLRS and the anthology From Boys To Men. Her first collection of poetry, The Stamp Collector's Wife (firstfruits publications), was published in 2010.
Damon Chua
Damon won the 2007 Ovation Award (Best World Premiere Play) for his full-length work Film Chinois, beating six other nominees including a Tony Award winner. His pieces have been presented in Los Angeles, New York, Boston, Pennsylvania, Alaska and London. He currently serves as Literary Manager at the oldest non-profit theatre company in Los Angeles - Company of Angels.
Liana Chua
Liana is a PhD candidate in Social Anthropology at Cambridge University.
Dominic Chua
Dominic Chua is a 29-year-young human being struggling with the vicissitudes of life. He enjoys weaving webs of meaning. In his spare time, he teaches GP at Victoria Junior College.
Ally Chua
Ally Chua is a Singaporean poet. She works for a botanical attraction, and writes when she's not replying to emails within seven working days. She is the 2019 Singapore Unbound Fellow for New York City, and a member of local writing collective /s@ber. Ally has been published in Cordite Poetry Review, Opia Magazine and Lammergeier Magazine.
Chua Xin Rong
Chua Xin Rong is a fan of writing, science, and the various combinations thereof.
Ian Chung Weiqiang
Ian Chung graduated with a BA (Hons) in English Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Warwick. His work has been published in Asia Writes, Camroc Press Review, Foundling Review and Ink Sweat & Tears, among others. Currently, he writes reviews for Drunken Boat, Rum & Reviews Magazine and The Cadaverine,
where he is also a Fiction Editor. He also edits Eunoia Review, an online literary journal.
Edith Clare
Edith Clare is a MFA degree candidate in poetry at the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas. She has previously published work in Colorado Review, the Harvard Advocate, Peripheries, among others. She has lived Singapore during her teen years, and thinks of the city as home.
Linda Collins
Linda Collins, a New Zealander who works in Singapore, is the author of Loss Adjustment, a memoir; and a poetry collection, Sign Language for the Death of Reason. She has an MA in Creative Writing from the International Institute of Modern Letters, New Zealand, and was shortlisted for the Hachette Australia Trans-Tasman mentorship. Her work has appeared in publications that include Cordite, Swamp, Turbine, The Fib Review and Prometheus Dreaming.
Peter Condron
Peter Condron is a 39-year-old Irishman living in Singapore. A scientist by training, he spends most of his days hunched in front of a computer writing reports. Once in a while his attention slips and a short piece of flash-fiction is produced instead.
Robert P. Craig
No information available.
Jen Crawford
Jen Crawford teaches Creative Writing in the Division of English at the Nanyang Technological University. She writes poetry, and her recent publications are the chapbook Napoleon Swings (Soapbox Press, 2009) and collection Bad Appendix (Titus Books, 2008).
Mark Crimmins
Mark Crimmins was nominated for Pushcart Fiction Prizes in 2015 and 2019, and his stories were also nominated for a 2015 Million Writers Award and a 2015 Silver Pen Authors Association Write Well Award. His experimental travel memoir in flashes, Sydneyside Reflections, will be published by Truth Serum Press in 2019.
Rachel Curzon
Rachel Curzon teaches in a public school in the south of England. She has won an Eric Gregory Award, was a runner up in the 2007 Bridport Prize Competition and has been selected as a Faber New Poet for 2015-16. Her poems have been published in Mslexia and Poetry London, among others.
Craig Czury
Craig Czury has been digging the same hole since his father gave him a coal shovel for xmas at 10 and has finally hit Singapore. When he sleeps,
he dreams he sleeps and dreams he lives in Reading, Pennsylvania with a woman who daily sends him out for a pack of smokes, then rearranges the furniture.
Vernon Daim
Vernon Daim is a Malaysian who writes poems and short stories.
Vernyce Dannells
A graduate of Radcliffe's Publishing Procedures Course, Vernyce received her M.A. in journalism. She has spent her professional life as a producer for National Public Radio, and written for several Fortune 100 companies and academic institutions. Cadenza Press will publish her chapbook, Temporarily Abated, in the summer of 2003. She lives in Oahu, Hawaii.
Catherina Garcia Dario
A native of Manila, Catherina Garcia Dario is currently finishing her undergraduate degree in creative writing. Her literary work has been published in Reader’s Digest Asia and PLURAL. She has been awarded fellowships to the 19th Ateneo HEIGHTS Writers Workshop, and the 10th Virgin Labfest Fellowship Program of the Cultural Center of the Philippines.
Eugene Datta
Eugene Datta is a Calcutta-based writer whose fiction, poetry, essays and book reviews have appeared in the Richmond Review, Persimmon, West Coast Line, Heist Magazine, Poetry Bay, Dimsum, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Statesman, The Times of India, Specchio Della Stampa, the Far Eastern Economic Review and elsewhere.
Holly Day
Holly Day is a journalism instructor and mother of two living in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Her poetry has recently appeared in The MacGuffin, Bottle, and The Long Islander.
Dominic Dayta
Dominic Dayta is a short-fiction writer based in Caloocan City, Philippines. His short stories and essays have appeared (or are forthcoming) in publications such as the Philippines Graphic, the Brasilia Review, Liwayway, and Coldnoon.
Noelle Q. de Jesus
Noelle Q. de Jesus is the author of two books of short fiction, Cursed and Other Stories and Blood Collected Stories, which was translated into French. A Fellow at the University of Iowa International Writers Residency in 2023, she has an MFA in Fiction from Bowling Green State University and occasionally writes poetry and non-fiction. Her work has been published in anthologies and literary journals including Puerto del Sol, Witness and The Art and Craft of Asian Short Stories.
N. Adrian de Pedro
N. Adrian de Pedro is a poet from Manila, Philippines. He works as a logistics analyst for the Philippine Postal service.
Tania De Rozario
Tania De Rozario is a practising artist whose work
deals with issues of gender, space and text. She earns her keep as a freelance art educator and is the associate editor at Grain Photo, an Asian photography magazine distributed regionally.
Melissa De Silva
Melissa De Silva has worked in magazine journalism in Singapore for over 10 years. In February 2014, she gained a place in the selective-entry 6-month novel-writing course by Curtis Brown Creative (UK), for which she received a grant from Singapore's National Arts Council. She has just completed her debut novel.
Lawdenmarc Decamora
An MFA graduate of Creative Writing from De La Salle University in Manila, Lawdenmarc Decamora is a Pushcart Prize-nominated Filipino writer who is completing an MA in Literary and Cultural Studies. His work is published or forthcoming in Humanities Diliman, Cha: An Asian Literary Journal, North Dakota Quarterly, AJAR Press, and in anthologies What We Talk About When We Talk About It: Variations on the Theme of Love and Mingled Voices 4.
Rodrigo V. Dela Peña Jr
Rodrigo Dela Peña Jr.’s poems have been published in Rattle, Shanghai Literary Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review and other journals and anthologies. He has received prizes from the Palanca Awards, Kokoy Guevara Poetry Competition and British Council, among others. He is the author of the chapbooks Requiem and Hymnal. His first full-length collection, Aria and Trumpet Flourish, is forthcoming from Math Paper Press in Singapore.
Stephan B. Delbos
Stephan is an American poet currently living in Prague. His work has been featured most recently in The Los Angeles Journal and Stylus Poetry Journal.
Regina Derieva
Regina Derieva (1949 – 2013) was a Russian poet and writer who published around thirty books of poetry, essays, and prose. From July 1999 until her death she lived in Sweden. Her books in English translation are Inland Sea and Other Poems, In Commemoration of Monument, Instructions for Silence, The Last Island, and Alien Matter. Her work has also appeared in Poetry, Quadrant, Modern Poetry in Translation, Salt as well as in many Russian and Swedish magazines. Regina participated in a number of Swedish and international poetry festivals, including Singapore Writers Festival in 2007. Her papers are at Stanford University.
Valentina Diana
Valentina Diana is an actress, playwright and poet. She published her first collection of poems, Tre ore di notte e un pezzo del mattino (trans. Three hours of night and a piece of morning) in 2007, presenting it in Italy, Holland and France; her poetry is translated and published on reviews in Paris, Krakow, Aquas Santas (Portugal) and soon in Switzerland. In winter 2008 she will publish a new collection, Per caso allora, resterei un poco.
Diana Rahim
Diana writes mostly on gender, class, and religion. Sometimes she manages to write fiction and poetry.
Glenn Diaz
Glenn Diaz is a freelance writer. His works have appeared in various literary magazines and anthologies, including Likhaan 5: The Journal of Contemporary Philippine Literature in 2011. He lives in Manila.
Mark Dimaisip
Mark Dimaisip is a Filipino poet from Manila. His works have appeared in The Brasilia Review, Cha: An Asian Literary Journal, Fantasy Magazine, Human Parts, the Oxford Brookes International Poetry Competition, Strange Horizons, and elsewhere.
Karien van Ditzhuijzen
Karien van Ditzhuijzen is a Singapore-based writer. She teaches creative writing to migrants and manages a blog, MyVoice@HOME, to share their voices.
John Dorroh
John Dorroh's poetry has appeared in over a hundred journals, such as Feral, River Heron, Pinyon and Wisconsin Review. He has had three nominations for Best of the Net and two chapbooks published in 2022.
Jordan Dotson
Jordan Dotson is an American writer from Appalachian Virginia who moved to south China to study classical poetry. His works have been featured in Drunken Boat, The Writers Chronicle and MaLa Literary Journal.
Roberto Drummond
Roberto Drummond was a young journalist during the Brazilian political upheaval of the sixties whose writing eventually got him in trouble. While he wasn't exiled, he was blackballed and couldn't earn a living as a political journalist, and eventually became a
sportswriter. Drummond was a huge fan of Atletico Mineiro, and he wrote about football to earn his living for the rest of his life. The myth goes that he died watching Brazil play England in the 2002 World Cup. At the time of his death, he was the author of eight novels and two collections of short stories. His work here on QLRS is only the second time he has been published in English.
Leanne Dunic
Leanne Dunic is currently working on a novel and poetry manuscript.
Thomas Elson
Thomas Elson is a writer who divides his time between Northern California and Western Kansas. His short stories and poems have been published in numerous venues such as Calliope, the Cabinet of Heed and New Feathers.
Daniel Emlyn-Jones
Daniel Emlyn-Jones works in the healthcare industry in the United Kingdom. He has several short stories published in the literary magazine Anak Sastra. He loves Singapore, and loves writing about Singapore.
Edward Eng
Edward Eng is an aspiring playwright-filmmaker excited by ideas of class warfare, funky metaphysics and moral ambiguity. He is in his second year reading Philosophy, Politics and Economics at the University of Warwick.
Eng Shou Jie
Shou Jie is currently serving his National Service with the Music & Drama Company, and using the free time it offers to pursue his interests in jazz, fashion, writing and (strangely but truly) jeans.
Terri Kirby Erickson
Terri Kirby Erickson is the author of six collections of poetry. Her work has appeared in Atlanta Review, Latin American Literary Review, Muse India, San Pedro River Review, The Sun, The Writer’s Almanac, Verse Daily and many others. Her awards include the Joy Harjo Poetry Prize, Nazim Hikmet Award, and a Nautilus Silver Book Award. She lives in North Carolina, USA.
Marjorie Evasco
Marjorie Evasco writes poetry in two languages, English and Cebuano-Visayan. Her two books of poems, Dreamweavers: Selected Poems 1976-1986 (1986) and Ochre Tones: Poems in English and Cebuano (1999) both won the National Book Award for Poetry from the Manila Critics’ Circle.
Fadzlishah Johanabas bin Rosli
Fadzlishah Johanabas bin Rosli is a Malaysian writer.
Faiqah Rizliana
Faiqah is a graduate from Nanyang Technological University with a degree in English Literature and minor in Creative Writing. She is also the current Chief Editor of Eleven Magazine.
Farah Aida
Farah is reading for her Bachelor of Arts (Education) in English Language and Literature at Nanyang Technological University.
Michael Farrell
Michael Farrell is a contemporary Australian poet.
Hanan Fathi
Hanan Fathi is an award-winning Egyptian poet, novelist and short-story writer. She was born in 1957, in Belqas, Dakahlia Governorate, Egypt.
Ryan Leyco Faura
Ryan Leyco Faura is a teacher from the Philippines. His book Pun Intended: Collected Works (Hinabing Salita) is out now.
David Fedo
David Fedo, an American living just outside Boston, was for five years the executive director and visiting scholar of the Wheelock College, USA, Center for International Education, Leadership and Innovation-Singapore. He is the author of Carrots and Other Poems (Ethos Books, 2009).
Fehmida Zakeer
Fehmida Zakeer is based in Chennai. Her work has come out in The Linnet's Wings, Shine Journal, Kritya and others. A
story written by her was short listed in the Open Spaces writing competition 2010 and another made it to the honoree list of the Binnacle Competition 2010.
Monica Felizardo
Monica Felizardo is a graduating student of Creative Writing at the University of the Philippines, Diliman. Dabbling in speculative fiction, she has also previously published in Philippine Genre Stories.
Lily C. Fen
Lily C. Fen has written feature essays and Filipino fantasy fiction for Asian Cha, The Local Switzerland, and Asian Dragon, among others. She earned her MA degree in English Language Studies from the University of the Philippines and co-edited a book on Filipino-Swiss migration entitled Bending without Breaking: Thirteen Women’s Stories of Migration and Resilience. She resides in Switzerland and is working on her first novel.
Italo Ferrante
No information available.
Michael Fessler
Michael Fessler is an American writer who has been living in Japan since 1986. His work has appeared in periodicals such as Harvard Review, Kyoto Journal, Iowa Review, Poetry East, Antioch Review, and others. He has published a collection of haiku, The Sweet Potato Sutra (Bottle Rockets Press, 2004) and a textbook, Design and Discuss (Nan’un-do, 2007).
Muhammad Firdaus Bin Suraidi
Firdaus Suraidi is a Singaporean writer, poet and a graduate of the University of London. He is currently working on a three-part novel and a compilation of short stories.
Tim Fitts
Tim Fitts lives and works in Philadelphia. He is the author of the novel The Soju Club (2016) and two short story collections, Hypothermia (2017) and Go Home and Cry for Yourselves (2017). His stories have been published in The Gettysburg Review, The Baltimore Review and Granta, among others. Fitts teaches in the Curtis Institute of Music, and his new novel, The People's Island, is forthcoming with Spuyten Duyvil Press.
Keith Flynn
Keith Flynn is the author of three collections of poetry: The Talking Drum
(1991), The Book
of Monsters (1994), and The Lost Sea (2000). From 1987-1998, he
was lyricist and lead singer for a rock band, The
Crystal Zoo, which produced three albums. His poetry has appeared in many journals
and anthologies around the world, including The Colorado Review, The Cuirt
Journal (Ireland), Poetry Wales, The Southern Poetry Review and
Shenandoah. He has been awarded the Sandburg Prize for poetry, and
received numerous Pushcart nominations. Flynn is the
founder and managing editor of The Asheville Poetry Review.
Amanda Ruiqing Flynn
Amanda Ruiqing Flynn is a visual artist, writer, literary translator and educator who has lived and worked in the United Kingdom, Taiwan and Singapore. She is editor of Singapore in the Eyes of Mother Artists.
David Flynn
David Flynn was born in 1948 in the textile mill company town of Bemis, Tennessee, USA. His jobs have included being newspaper reporter, magazine editor and university teacher. He has five degrees and is both a Fulbright Senior Scholar and a Fulbright Senior Specialist. Among the nine writing residencies he has been awarded are five at the Wurlitzer Foundation in Taos, NM, and stays in Ireland and Israel. David Flynn is married and has one daughter.
Arin Alycia Fong
Arin Alycia Fong is a graduate student at NTU specialising in English Literature and Creative Writing. Her short fiction has been published in this is how you walk on the moon and was longlisted for the First Pages Prize organised by the Stockholm Writer's Festival.
Sohrab Homi Fracis
Sohrab Homi Fracis taught literature and creative writing at University of North Florida, and was Visiting Writer in Residence at Augsburg College. His first book, Ticket to Minto: Stories of India and America (University of Iowa Press), was the first by an Asian to win the Iowa Short Fiction Award.
Tiziano Fratus
Tiziano Fratus directs Festival and Press Torino Poesia, and the contemporary theatre season «Dissezioni» for Teatro Fondamenta Nuove in Venice.
He has published eight books of poetry: Lumina (2003, Rome), L’inquisizione (2004, Rome), Il molosso (2005, Rome), La torsione (2006, Torino), Il Molosso. Poema d’un’anima (2007, Torino - second edition), Il Ventre (2007, Torino) and Il Vangelo della Carne (2008, Torino). A new collection is forthcoming, I figli della pietà e di Mohammed Alì, along with another on writing, L’angelo di Mishima.
Paul Freidinger
Paul Freidinger is a poet residing in Edisto Beach, SC, U.S.A., where the ocean continues to rise. It keeps him awake at night. He has published widely through the U.S. and abroad for forty years. At this point in time, he is grateful to be writing every day with a sense of purpose.
Rachel Fung
Rachel Fung graduated from King’s College London where she read law. Her work has been short- and long-listed for contests and has appeared in Alluvium, Reflex Fiction, Virtual Zine, as well as an anthology of flash fiction, A Girl’s Guide to Fly Fishing.
Pat Galvin
Pat Galvin has been published in Irish poetry outlets from The Irish Press page, Salmon and Riverine through
to Poetry Ireland, The Sunday Tribune and The Shop.
Winner of the inaugural Cecil Day Lewis Poetry Award, he was short listed twice for the Tribune/Hennessy Award in 1997 and 2000. His first collection, Where The Music Comes From, was published in 2010.
Priscilla Gan
Priscilla Gan may or may not be a teacher.
Gan See Siong
Gan See Siong works in the convention industry. He has published in From Boys to Men: A Literary Anthology of National Service in Singapore and Poetry Billboard.
Wendy Gan
Wendy Gan is a Singaporean currently working and living in Hong Kong. Her works have also been published in Ariel and Westerly.
Miguel Garcia
Miguel Barretto García (they/them) is a PhD student in decision neurosciences, currently living in between Zürich and London. Their works have been published and accepted in Rattle, Cordite Poetry Review and harana, among others. When not doing poetry, Miguel investigates why people behave based on how they perceive the environment, and what mechanisms in the brain can we potentially uncover and learn to understand the role of perception in everyday life.
Ioannis Gatsiounis
Ioannis Gatsiounis's fiction has appeared in Thieves Jargon and Skive Magazine. His journalism has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Asia Times, New York Post, Christian Science Monitor, World Press Review and San Francisco
Chronicle, among other publications.
Kei Gemora
Kei Gemora is a Filipino poet and cultural worker. Their works have appeared in Cha: an Asian Literary Journal, Modern Poetry in Translation, Voice & Verse Poetry Magazine, TLDTD Journal and Hayden’s Ferry Review, among others. Their forthcoming collection of poems in Filipino, Lugar Lang (Just Land), will be published by the University of the Philippines Press.
Christopher T. George
Christopher T. George's writing has been published in newspapers and magazines around the world. He is the Editor at the Desert Moon Review poetry workshop and co-editor of the electronic and print literary magazine Loch Raven Review. Chris works as a medical editor.
Marshall J. Getz
Marshall is the author of Subhas Chandra Bose - A Biography. His short stories have been published in Dim Sum and The Dalhousie Review.
Damyanti Ghosh
Damyanti Ghosh is an Indian writer currently based in Malaysia.
Bonnie James Glover
Bonnie is an African-American attorney living in New Jersey. She teaches mediation skills to federal employees. Her greatest desire is to live in a world of peace and to be able to write everyday. Her first novel, Searching with Qwai Chang, will be published in May 2005.
Lolito Go
Lolito Go is a professional bum and a Dudeist priest from the Philippines. His works have appeared in High Chair Journal, Paper Monster Press, Philippines Free Press, Sunday Inquirer Magazine as well as Under The Storm: An Anthology of Contemporary Philippine Poetry.
Jim Goar
Jim Goar took his MFA from the Kerouac School at Naropa University. He has spent the past few years teaching English at various schools in China, Thailand, and South Korea. His work has been published by the likes of Elimae, Three Therefore Two, Bombay Gin, and Can We Have Our Ball Back?.
Goh Peng Fong
Peng Fong is a lawyer, and writes in his free time.
Gayle Goh
Gayle Goh (b. 1988) is a civil servant. She is married, and a mother.
Serene Goh Jin-Hong
Serene Goh Jin-Hong is a part-time MA Creative Writing student at Lasalle College of the Arts. She works at Singapore Association for Mental Health to educate the public on self-care and building resilience in stressful times.
Jasmine Goh
Jasmine Goh does lots of legal reading and writing in the day, but feels most at home with poetry and prose. Her poems have been featured in SingPoWriMo 2015: The Anthology, A Luxury We Must Afford and Atelier of Healing: Poetry About Trauma & Recovery.
Ian Goh Hsien Jun
Ian Goh is a writer and teacher based in Singapore. His work has also appeared in the Tiger Moth Review, Star*Line magazine, and elsewhere. He holds an MA in Creative Writing from Goldsmiths University of London, and enjoys weaving the speculative into the contemporary.
Clara Goh
Clara Goh is a writer based in Singapore who is working on a novel.
Goh Zhi Ling
Ling is an impassioned young woman - Prufrockian, but trying to write.
Sheri Kristen Goh
Sheri is currently a doing a Masters dissertation on Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton at the National University of Singapore, where she received her Honours degree in English Literature, and where she is also a teaching assistant.
Edward Goh
Edward Goh is an English Literature undergraduate at the National University of Singapore. Ever passionate about poetry, he has recently taken an interest in short stories and playwriting as well.
Wilson Goh
Wilson Goh is a freelance choral conductor. His writings have appeared in The Substation Magazine, NAFA Arts and Onewinged.
John Gorman
John's work has appeared in Queens Ledger, Glendale Register, Thunder Sandwich, Art and Mind, East of the Web, Hackwriters and elsewhere. His screenplay 'For the Love of Auntie' won at the 2003 NY International Indie Film and Video and Festival.
Ram Govardhan
Ram Govardhan has a post-graduate degree in sociology. His first novel Rough with the Smooth was longlisted for the 2009 Man Asian Literary Prize, while his short stories have appeared in Asian and African journals. He works with Hansa Research and lives in Madras/Chennai, India.
Jon Gresham
Jon Gresham was born in England and grew up in Australia. He lives in Singapore and his stories have been published in Ceriph and the mono-titular anthology Coast.
Neil Grimmett
Neil Grimmett has had stories published by, among others, London Magazine, Panurge, Iron, Stand, Sepia, Pretext and Ambit in the UK, Paris Transcontinental in France, Grain in Canada, Quadrant in Australia, New Contrast in South Africa and Fiction, The Yale Review, DoubleTake and The Southern Review in the USA.
Gui Wei Hsin
Gui Wei Hsin is in his final year at Wesleyan University in Connecticut, USA. He is majoring in both English and East Asian Studies, and writes poetry in English and Chinese.
Gwee Li Sui
Gwee Li Sui has previously taught in the Department of English Language and Literature at the National University of Singapore. He specialises in the long eighteenth century as well as modern Singaporean literature and has written on the Reformation, Romanticism, Protestant theology, and critical theory also. He is also a visual artist and a poet, and his published works include Myth of the Stone (1993), Who Wants to Buy a Book of Poems? (1998), One Thousand and One Nights (2014) and Death Wish (2017).
Amari Hamadene
Born in Algeria in 1968, Amari Hamadene has publication credits in magazines and anthologies in France, Belgium and in Switzerland, such as Phreatique, Le Jardin d'Essai, Parages, Hauteurs, Estuaires, Archipel and Bleu d'Encre. Editor's Note: in March 2005, Amari Hamadene was implicated in a plagiarism controversy over poems that had begun appearing in English from late 2004. By April 2005, A.T. van 't Hof, who had first discovered the case, concluded: "I have been in contact with the ‘real’ Amari Hamadene. He claims to be innocent and assumes that somebody else must have published under his name. I regard this case as closed." As far as can be ascertained, the Amari Hamadene poem published on QLRS is an original piece.
Kirsten Han
Kirsten Han is currently in New Zealand trying to get her degree in Media Arts (majoring in Moving Image). She has been writing since she was seven.
Maryanne Hannan
Maryanne Hannan's poetry has been published in many print and online literary journals including Chaffin Review, Hampden-Sydney Poetry Review, Pebble Lake Review, Stand and Umbrella.
Jan Oskar Hansen
Jan Oskar Hansen is the author of Letters From Portugal, Routes and Shaken & Stirred.
Anurak Saelaow Hao
Anurak Saelaow is a Singaporean poet and writer. His work has been published or is forthcoming in Cha: An Asian Literary Journal, Hayden's Ferry Review, The Kindling, Ceriph, and elsewhere. He is the author of one chapbook, Schema (The Operating System, 2015), and holds a BA in creative writing and English from Columbia University.
Violet Jordan Hara
Violet Jordan Hara was born in Singapore in 1999.
Hari Kumar
Family man, civil servant, writer, philosopher, IT geek, community worker etc are some of the hats Hari Kumar wears to make this life worthwhile. He lives in Tanjong Pagar with his wife and two sons.
Jonathan Hayes
Jonathan Hayes lives in San Francisco, California. He has taught poetry at 826 Valencia, a writing center for children in the Mission District of the City.
Bani Haykal
Bani Haykal is a performance poet and frontman for the alternative rock group B-Quartet.
Heng Kaile
Kaile is an avid traveller and aspiring writer. Therefore, he hopes to become a travel journalist some day.
Samantha Heng
Samantha Heng is a copywriter and a baker on the side. She has a literature degree that she has misplaced.
Heng Siok Tian
Heng Siok Tian has published five collections of poetry: Crossing the Chopsticks and Other Poems (1993), My City, My Canvas (1999), Contouring (2004), Is My Body a Myth (2011) and Mixing Tongues (2011). Her poems have been anthologised in publications such as Journeys: Words, Home and Nation, No Other City: An Anthology of Urban Poetry and Moving Worlds. A participant of the Iowa International Writing Program in 2000, she has also participated in literary events in China, USA, Sweden, Denmark and the Philippines.
Bernard Henrie
Bernard Henrie is a currency trader living near Los Angeles. He has three Pushcart nominations and his publishing credits include MiPOesias, Shampoo, Boston Literary Magazine, Cha and Cortland Review.
Ed Higgins
Ed Higgins has been published in Monkeybicycle Pindeldyboz, Bellowing Ark, CrossConnect, Word Riot and Blue Print Review, among others. He teaches creative writing and literature at George Fox University in Oregon, USA.
Sid Gómez Hildawa
Sid Gómez Hildawa (1962-2008) was a poet, visual artist and professional architect. As an artist, he was among the recipients of the CCP Thirteen Artists Award and the British Council Fellowship for art and architecture in 1990. He participated in many group and solo exhibitions, among them the 2000 International Art Biennale of Havana Cuba, and the 2002 artist-in-residency program at Fujino, Japan. As an architect, he designed houses and offices on a freelance basis. As a writer, he was a poetry fellow to the UP National Writer's workshop in 1995 and the Iligan National Writer's workshop in 1997. He won 2nd place twice in the Philippines Free Press Literary Awards for poetry, in 2001 and 2004. Hildawa obtained his Master of Fine Arts degree in Creative Writing from the De La Salle University in 2004.
Richard Hillman
Richard Hillman lives near Timbertown (NSW), Australia. Picaro Press is due to release his sixth collection of poetry, Timber Country. His work has been widely published in Australia, USA, UK, NZ, Canada, China, and Europe.
Ho Ai Li
Ho Ai Li works as an editor at The Straits Times. She was previously based in Taipei and then Beijing as a foreign correspondent for the newspaper. Besides deadlines and datelines, punchlines are also often on her mind as she enjoys drawing comics.
Ho Ren Chun
Ho Ren Chun is a Singaporean writer and lawyer based in London, published with journals such as Acumen and Porter House Review, and in anthologies like A Luxury We Cannot Afford and Poetry Moves. He has received the Cambridge Brewer Hall Poetry Prize (2017) and has been nominated for Best of the Net (2020) and Best New Poets (2021).
Tammy Ho Lai-ming
Tammy Ho Lai-ming is a Hong Kong-born writer. She is a founding co-editor (with Jeff Zroback) of the first Hong Kong-based online literary journal, Cha: An Asian Literary Journal.
Aaron Ho
Aaron Ho is writing his dissertation on Victorian literature at the Graduate Center, City University of New York.
Joses Ho
Joses Ho is a PhD student in neuroscience. Born and bred in Singapore, he has lived and studied in the US and the UK, and is currently based in the Netherlands.
Pamela Ho
No information available.
Angie Ho Guyoton
Born in Singapore, Angie Ho Guyoton now lives in Paris with her husband and son. Her short story, ‘Love Thy French Neighbours’ was nominated for the 2011 Paris Short Story Contest Editorial Committee Prize.
Philip Holden
Philip Holden teaches in the Department of English Language and Literature in the National University of Singapore. His recent books include the anthology Writing Singapore, co-edited with Angelia Poon and Shirley Geok-lin Lim. His short stories have been published in Prism International and Cha, and he was one of the writers chosen for Dzanc Books' Best of the Web 2009 anthology.
Hong Wee
Hong Wee is thirty-three, and has been writing for the last 2-3 years, solely for the entertainment of his wife (who is also his greatest motivator). When he is not slogging at the day job, he is either writing, swing dancing or hurting himself playing football. He has a degree in Mathematics but no knowledge of it whatsoever.
Wyatt Hong
Born in Seoul, South Korea, Wyatt Hong was educated at Stanford University and the Yale School of Medicine. He is currently an emergency physician in Los Angeles.
Hong Yuchen
Hong Yuchen is currently pursuing his final year in Nanyang Technological University’s Division of English. He records his occasional travels in words, photographs and sometimes drawings.
Shawn Hoo
Shawn Hoo’s poems are found in Queer Southeast Asia, OF ZOOS, and Voice & Verse, as well as anthologies such as A Luxury and EXHALE: An Anthology of Queer Singapore Voices (both Math Paper Press, 2021). He is working on his first poetry chapbook, Of the Florids, which was a runner-up for Tupelo Press’ Sunken Garden Chapbook Award 2021 and a finalist for New Delta Review’s Annual Chapbook Contest. He is currently Assistant Editor at Asymptote.
B.B.P. Hosmillo
B.B.P. Hosmillo is a practice-led researcher at The University of New England, Australia. Author of Breed Me: a sentence without a subject / Phối giống tôi: một câu không chủ đề (AJAR Press, 2016) with Vietnamese translation by Hanoi-based poets Nhã Thuyên and Hải Yến, their writings have also been translated into Indonesian, Bulgarian, and Korean. Founder and co-editor of Queer Southeast Asia, their poetry has also appeared in The Offing, World Literature Today, and Prairie Schooner.
Zachary Hourihane
Zachary Hourihane is an Irish writer made in Singapore. His works of journalism can be found or are forthcoming in Rice Media, Elle Magazine, and Jom Media. His literary nonfiction has appeared in Barren Magazine, Another Chicago Magazine, and Bodega Magazine.
Michael Hu Xiuxian
Michael Hu first began writing at the age of eight, and has never stopped since. Michael plans to pursue a career in journalism with a
view to writing full-time.
Lynn Huang
No information available.
Huang Qin Qin
Qin Qin is the editor of Screenhub Asia, based at The Substation in Singapore.
Judith Huang
Judith Huang is a Singaporean writer, translator and editor. Named a Foyle Young Poet of the Year in 2001, 2003 and 2004, her writing has been published in journals including Prairie Schooner, Asia Literary Review, Asymptote and the Harvard Advocate, as well as in anthologies such as In Transit, Singpowrimo 2014 and Body Boundaries. Her first collection of poetry is forthcoming from Ethos Books in 2018, her first novel Sofia and the Utopia Machine was shortlisted for the Epigram Fiction Prize 2017.
Huang Kaishan
Huang Kaishan, 20, is an undergraduate studying communication studies at the Nanyang Technological University. There is a stuffed dog beside her pillow and many people running around the inside of her head.
Antony Huen
Antony Huen has published poems and articles internationally. He is a doctoral fellow of York’s Humanities Research Centre, and one of Eyewear’s Best New British and Irish Poets in 2017.
Henry Hughes
Henry Hughes is Professor of Literature and Writing at Western Oregon University, and the author of four collections of poetry. His works have recently appeared in Harvard Review, Queen's Quarterly, and the North American Review.
Barbara Kuessner Hughes
Barbara Kuessner Hughes was born in Malaysia and grew up in Malaysia and Singapore. She currently lives in Hertfordshire, England. She won the Flash 500 international flash fiction competition in 2019.
D.J. Huppatz
D.J. Huppatz is a writer who lives in Melbourne, Australia. He has published a wide variety of writing, in, among others, the literary journals Sulfur, Tinfish, Aught, Heat, Meanjin, Southerly, Overland, Cordite, Ulitarra and Blast. He is the author of four poetry chapbooks: The Week Sonnets, Sealer’s Cove, American Songs and City of Swallows. In 1998 he co-founded Textbase, a literary journal and experimental small press.
Heather I`anson-Holton
Heather graduated from Raffles Institution, and will be pursuing a degree in Psychology. She mainly writes poetry, and is a member of Burn After Reading SG.
Innas Tsuroiya
Innas Tsuroiya is a poet and writer living in Indonesia. Her work has appeared in Guernica Magazine, Wax Nine Records, International Film Festival Rotterdam, The Rumpus, and others.
Joshua Ip
Joshua Ip is a poet, editor and literary organiser. His latest collection is footnotes on falling (2018), and his latest editorial work is 11 x 9: Collaborative poetry from the Philippines and Singapore (2019), co-edited with Martin Villanueva.
Ismim Putera
Ismim Putera is a poet and writer from Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo. His work can be found online in Ghostheart Literary, Ayaskala, Prismatica, Anak Sastra and elsewhere.
Nirmala Iswari
Nirmala graduated with an MA in English Literature from Stella Maris College, Chennai.
Aishwarya Iyer
Aishwarya Iyer is twenty and will soon graduate in English Literature from St. Xavier’s College, Mumbai.
Joji Jacob
Originally from India, Joji Jacob is an award-winning copywriter based in Singapore. He uses any time he can steal from his day job to travel, sketch and write.
Terry Jaensch
Terry Jaensch is an Australian poet, actor and monologist. His first volume of poetry BUOY was Highly Commended in the Anne Elder Award by the Fellowship of Australian Writers. He has been the recipient of an Asialink residency in Singapore. Currently he is working on Orphan's Own Project, a cabaret about his time growing up in an orphanage.
Colin James
Colin James has a chapbook of poems, A Thoroughness Not Deprived Of Absurdity,
out from Pski's Porch press.
Jeffrey Javier
Jeffrey Javier is a graduate of the Creative Writing program of the University of the
Philippines. He lives in Davao City.
Jen Wei Ting
After a lengthy separation, Wei Ting was recently reunited with her love for writing. She crunches numbers by day and bangs away on her piano and keyboard at night.
Collin Jerome
Collin Jerome is a PhD candidate in English Literature at Sussex University.
Paul M. Jerusalem
Paul M. Jerusalem graduated from Dunman Secondary School and Raffles Institution, and enjoys singing and writing more than he ought to. He will begin his undergraduate studies at Yale-NUS College in 2015.
Jing Siang Hai
Jing Siang Hai is a psychiatrist based in Taipei as well as the acclaimed Taiwanese author of three volumes of poetry: A Wanted
Man, A Mental Home, and most recently, Nobita, whose English
translation will be completed in early 2010.
Antony Johae
Antony Johae has a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature and has taught in England, Ghana, Tunisia, and Kuwait. He is now retired and divides his time between the UK and Lebanon. His collection, Poems of the East, was published in 2015.
Allan Johnston
Allan Johnston teaches writing and literature at DePaul University and Columbia College Chicago. His poems have appeared in Poetry, Weber Studies and other journals, and he published one poetry book, Tasks of Survival.
David J. Johnston
David J. Johnston was born in Los Angeles, CA. He studied English, Asian Studies, and film at Rutgers University. He lived for two years in South Korea and is currently an Education student at University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee.
Jill Jones
Jill Jones currently lives in Adelaide, Australia. Her most recent books are Broken/Open (Salt Publishing, 2005) and a handwritten ‘tiny’ book, Speak Which (Meritage Press, 2007). Her poems have appeared in a number of anthologies such as The Penguin Anthology of Australian Poetry and Over There – Poems from Singapore and Australia, and her works has been translated into Chinese, Dutch, French, Italian and Spanish. In 2007 she was a featured reader at the 23rd Festival International de la Poésie in Trois-Rivières, Canada.
Jane Joritz-Nakagawa
Originally from the USA, Jane Joritz-Nakagawa lives in central Japan. Her seventh full length book of poetry, FLUX, is forthcoming in fall, 2013, with BlazeVOX.
Meena Kandasamy
Meena Kandasamy is a twenty-one year old writer, poet and translator based in Chennai, India. Her poem 'Mascara' won the first prize in the national level Indian Horizons Poetry Contest 2004 conducted by the government-run Indian Council for Cultural Relations.
Kao Jong-Ee
No information available.
Devena Kasinathan
Devena Kasinathan has previously had a short story published by Silverfishbooks (Malaysia ) in two anthologies in 2004 and 2006. She currently resides in Malaysia , and is working on her first novel.
Matthew Kasper
Matthew Kasper is a former journalist and an English teacher who hails from Baltimore. His writing has been published in Newsweek, The Associated Press, and The Avenue literary journal.
Kirat Kaur
Kirat Kaur is an investment writer with a decade of experience in media and publishing. Her short story 'Veera' appears in the anthology In Transit (2016).
Tim Keane
Tim's writing has won awards from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Bronx Council on the Arts. He has recent work in the US in Denver Quarterly, Shenandoah and Apostrophe, and in the UK in Modern Painters, The Reader and Pennine Platform. Tim lives in Mt Vernon, New York.
W.B. Keckler
W.B. Keckler's most recent book, Sanskrit of the Body, won in the National Poetry Series 2002 and is just out through Penguin. His other books include Ants Dissolve in Moonlight, Recombinant Image Day and the ebook I Came Dressed As John Wilkes Booth.
Mick Kennedy
Mick Kennedy’s poems have appeared in Columbia Journal Online, New Southerner, Iron Horse Literary Review, The Louisville Review and elsewhere.
Reginald James Kent
Reginald James Kent has completed a Master of Arts in English at Nanyang Technological University and is attending the University of Washington’s Master of Fine Arts program for Creative Writing. He is currently working on a collection of short stories and a novella. His work focuses on queer forms and the gay experience.
Khanh Ha
Khanh Ha’s debut novel is FLESH (Black Heron Press, 2012). He graduated from Ohio University with a bachelor’s degree in journalism, and is at work on a new novel
Laura Kho
Laura Kho studied English Literature at Durham University and is currently working as an associate librarian in Singapore. In her free time, she enjoys dancing for leisure, exploiting Singapore’s museum entry policy and poring through Life! and The New Yorker.
Werner Kho
Werner Kho graduated from Ngee Ann Polytechnic and is currently serving NS. His work has been featured in Softblow and is upcoming in the anthology In Transit by Math Paper Press.
Peng-Ean Khoo
Peng-Ean Khoo is a poet-artist trying to transgress the boundaries between text, language, literature (in particular poetry) and the visual arts. She is the founding editor of Gallery Behind the Falls. She knows there is such a thing as new media but doggedly refuses to stop making print books as she explains, "My hands cannot breathe in virtual space". Peng-Ean has a balding Syngonium as a pet.
Peter J. King
Peter J. King teaches philosophy at Pembroke College, Oxford. His poetry, including translations from German and Modern Greek, has been published in journals such as Acumen, Tears in the Fence, Dream Catcher, New Walk and The Interpreter’s House. His latest collections are: Adding Colours to the Chameleon (2016) and All What Larkin (2017).
Ronald Klein
Ronald Klein teaches English at Hiroshima Jogakuin University. He is the editor of two volumes of interviews with Singapore writers in the Interlogue series (Ethos Books) and the author of The Other Empire: Literary Views from the Philippines, Singapore and Malaysia.
Belle Koh
Belle Koh writes poetry and fiction in Singapore. Her poems have appeared in Kopi Break Poetry and Eunoia Review.
Koh Tsin Yen
Koh Tsin Yen lives in Singapore.
Koh Choon Hwee
Koh Choon Hwee is currently studying history in Beirut, Lebanon. She votes in Bukit Panjang SMC where she lives with her beloved parents and two lovely sisters.
Koh Beng Liang
Koh Beng Liang is the author of Last Three Women (2002), a first book of poems published by Ethos Books. He graduated from Carnegie Mellon University in 1999, where he studied electrical and computer engineering. He is a co-founder of the2ndrule, a guerilla creative email magazine.
Adeline Koh
Adeline Koh is a postdoctoral fellow with the Department of English Language and Literature at the National University of Singapore. She is currently working on projects involving colonial literature, modernism, and the intersections of African and Asian literature.
Gilbert Koh
Gilbert Koh, born 1973, is a lawyer. His poetry has been published in various publications in Singapore and elsewhere, including Atlanta Review, papertiger, Slope, No Other City - The Ethos Anthology of Urban Poetry, Love Gathers All - The Philippines-Singapore Anthology of Love Poetry, From Boys to Men - A Literary Anthology of National Service in Singapore and Poetry Billboard.
Koh Jee Leong
Jee Leong Koh is the author of Steep Tea (Carcanet), named a Best Book of the Year by UK's Financial Times and a Finalist by Lambda Literary in the US. His hybrid work of fiction Snow at 5 PM: Translations of an insignificant Japanese poet won the 2022 Singapore Literature Prize in English fiction. His second Carcanet book Inspector Inspector was released in the UK in August 2022 and in the US in October the same year. Originally from Singapore, he lives in New York City.
Jinny Koh
Jinny Koh is the author of The Gods Will Hear Us Eventually (Ethos Books, forthcoming 2018), and her work has appeared in Kyoto Journal, Litro and Best New Singaporean Short Stories: Volume 2, among others. Her recent short story, 'Close To Home', was shortlisted for the 2017 Commonwealth Short Story Prize.
Yvonne Koh
Yvonne Koh works in Singapore.
Stella Kon
Stella Kon is one of Singapore's best known playwrights.
Desmond Kon
Desmond Francis Xavier Kon (Zhicheng-Mingdé) is the author of an epistolary novel, a quasi-memoir, two lyric essay monographs, four hybrid works, nine poetry collections, and a guided creative journal. Among other accolades, Desmond is the recipient of the IBPA Benjamin Franklin Award, Independent Publisher Book Award, National Indie Excellence Book Award, Poetry World Cup, Singapore Literature Prize, and three Living Now Book Awards. He also helms Squircle Line Press.
Jerome Kugan
Jerome Kugan aka JK is a KL-based writer, poet, musician. In his spare time he publishes a poetry zine called Poetika. His story "Love in the Post Nicotine Age" was recently featured in Silverfish New Writing 1. He is currently working on a collection of short prose and verse.
Corey Kupfer
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Lydia Kwa
Lydia Kwa, Singapore-born, lives in Vancouver. She has published 3 novels and 2 books of poetry. Her visual art "linguistic tantrums" is currently part of an exhibition at Centre A gallery called M'Goi/Do Jeh: Sites, Rites and Gratitude.
Brennan Kwa Yiew Khoon
Brennan is currently an English Literature student in NTU. He loves writing and starting new stories but completing any story is an elusive beast that frequently evades capture.
Ken Kwek
Ken Kwek graduated from Cambridge University with a degree in English Literature in 2003. He worked in London as a cameraman on a variety of films and documentaries, before returning to Singapore as a journalist in August 2005.
Theophilus Kwek
Theophilus Kwek is a writer and editor based in Singapore. He has been shortlisted twice for the Singapore Literature Prize, and won the New Poets' Prize for his pamphlet The First Five Storms. He writes widely on issues of migration and citizenship, and his most recent poetry collection, Moving House, is published by Carcanet Press.
Desmond Kwok
Desmond is a history teacher. He lives in London with his two dogs, Gog and Magog.
Michelle Kwok Jia Yu
Michelle Kwok is a penultimate year undergraduate at Nanyang Technological University. She has a passion for reading and writing, and particularly enjoys writing short stories and poetry.
Kwok Siew Loong
Kwok Siew Loong completed his MA in Creative Writing in 2019. He has contributed articles on the Singapore arts scene to the Esplanade, the Substation and The Straits Times, and his short plays have been staged, read and broadcast locally.
Dylan Kwok
Dylan Kwok is a Singaporean video game designer currently studying in Nanyang Technological University. His fiction has appeared in Daily Science Fiction, The Colored Lens and Wyldblood Press.
Angelo R. Lacuesta
Angelo R. Lacuesta has won numerous awards for his writing, among them two Philippine National Book Awards, the Madrigal Gonzalez Best First Book Award and several Palanca and Philippines Graphic Awards. He was literary editor of the Philippines Free Press and is currently editor-at-large at Esquire Philippines.
Amy T.Y. Lai
Amy TY Lai was born and brought up in Hong Kong. She got her graduate degree from Cambridge, UK, and her JD in Boston. She is now a proud resident of Canada. She is interested in law, literature, and current affairs.
Faith Christine Lai
Faith Christine is a poet, philosopher, and public servant. Her poems have been published in FIVE:2:ONE, Barren, The Kindling and Rambutan Literary, among others.
Kenneth Lam
Once upon a time, Kenneth Lam lived in a city called Vancouver. Besides missing the weather and maple syrup, he is currently combating enforced public servitude with chain-dreaming.
Agnes Lam
Born and brought up in Hong Kong, Agnes Lam left home to study in Singapore and then America. She is now an associate professor at the University of Hong Kong and has contributed poems to journals such as Ariel, Commentary, Dimsum, Singa, Westerly and Yuan Yang. Her first poetry collection, Woman to Woman and Other Poems was published in 1997 and her second collection, Water Wood Pure Splendour, was published in 2001.
Gary Langford
Gary Langford is the author of 42 books, 15 in fiction and 18 in poetry, along with 4 textbooks. His most recent book is 100 Tiny Poems (2019). Gary lives in in Melbourne, Australia and Christchurch, New Zealand.
Eliana Debora Langiu
Eliana Debora Langiu published her first poetry collection Rag Time in 1993. She was also part of the 2007 anthology Le carte tatuate. Dieci poeti torinesi (trans. Tatoo Papers. Ten Poets from Turin); she published on june 2008 her second collection, Polaroid. She has presented in the Festival Poestate (Lugano) and in the Genoa International Poetry Festival. French translations of her poems are published in review «Les Citadelles» (Paris, 2008).
W.F. Lantry
W.F. Lantry received his Maîtrise from L’Université de Nice, and PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Houston. Recent honors include the National Hackney Literary Award in Poetry, CutBank Patricia Goedicke Prize, Lindberg Foundation International Poetry for Peace Prize (in Israel), Atlanta Review International Publication Prize and 2012 Potomac Review Poetry Prize. His work has appeared in Descant, Asian Cha, THIS Literary Magazine and Aesthetica. The Language of Birds (Finishing Line Press 2011), is his lyric retelling of Attar’s Conference of the Birds. He currently works in Washington, DC, and is a contributing editor of Umbrella Journal.
Andrea Lau
Andrea is a classical musician who hears the world in sonorities and tonalities, a scintillating prosaist who waxes lyrical about being a lover of life and a vivacious hippy who simultaneously swoons at and condemns the concept of a compartmentalised spiritualist.
Lau Peet Meng
In daily life, Peet Meng is a civil servant.
Michelle Lee Yan Yee
Michelle Lee Yan Yee recently graduated from Yale-NUS College with a degree in Literature. Her current projects are concerned with the intersection of technology, art, and life.
Lee Jing-Jing
Lee Jing-Jing is currently doing a Masters in Creative Writing at Oxford. She is a fiction writer as well as a poet and is now working on her first novel.
Lee Wei Fen
Wei Fen Lee is in her fourth year of studying South Asia and English Literature, and spends her free time exploring cities and thinking about the nameless future shaped like a cat. She is also the sub-editor of Ceriph, an independent publication of Singaporean writing.
Laremy Lee
Laremy Lee writes in different genres, with a focus on writing for the stage. His plays, Full Tank! and Radio Silence, were staged by W!ld Rice at the OCBC Singapore Theatre Festival 2008. He teaches at St Andrew's Junior College and is also an Associate Producer with Checkpoint Theatre.
Alfie Lee
Alfie Lee is an artist working in the media of writing, photography and graphic design. He is the author of a collection of poems, Yellow: Ginnie's Favourite Colour. Alfie currently lives in New York City.
Rachel Kuanneng Lee
Rachel is a co-founder of a data science startup. She is learning how to read and write with the same blend of obsession and abandon that she had when she was ten.
Jeffery Lee
Jeffery was a junior college teacher in Singapore in the 90s. He now works as a librarian in Australia.
Sophia Petra Lee
Sophia finds great delight in the following: pugs, playing the guitar, horrific amounts of time spent on video games, and writing things that may or may not ever see the light of day. A literature student, she hopes to one day inspire someone with a story of her own.
Cheryl Julia Lee
Cheryl Julia Lee is the author of We Were Always Eating Expired Things. She has also been published in Epiphany and Winter Tangerine Review, and has performed at the Singapore Writers Festival 2012.
Lee Sung-Mi
Lee Sung-Mi (이성미)is a Korean poet. Her poems have appeared in reputable Korean literary journals such as Literature and Society (문학과사회) and Modern Literature (현대문학). Her first book of poems, When Someone Stays Too Long (너무 오래 머물렀을 때), was published by Moonji Publishing in 2005. She also wrote Hyewha-dong La bohème (혜화동 라보엠), a free modern adaptation of Puccini's La bohème, which was performed by the Progressive Opera Studio in 2009.
Peggy Lee
Peggy PC Lee is a communications professional by day and an aspiring writer by night.
Lee Seow Ser
Lee Seow Ser is a Singaporean currently living in the city of Lorient, France. She is a lawyer by profession, and is currently on sabbatical leave.
Allison Lee
Allison is an Australian who is currently working in Singapore as a librarian with an international school.
Bridget-Rose Lee
Bridget-Rose Lee is from Singapore.
Brandon Lee
Brandon Lee is an occasional advertising copywriter and freelance author of articles on technology, lifestyle, and entertainment. He received an NAH-SPH Golden Point Award for Poetry in 2001.
Ken Lee
Born in 1982, Ken enrolled with Columbia University in 2003.
Aaron Lee
Aaron Lee is the author of the poetry collections, A Visitation of Sunlight (1997) and Five Right Angles (2007), which was a finalist for the Singapore Literature Prize. He is the co-editor of Singapore’s bestselling anthology of urban poetry, No Other City, and the award-winning Singapore-Philippines poetry anthology, Love Gathers All. His work has been published internationally, and he has read and spoken at literary events in countries such as Germany, Malaysia, Australia, the Philippines and the US.
Lee Yew Leong
Yew Leong is a Singaporean writer and video artist who has lived in the United States, France and China. He won the 2003 James Assatly Memorial Prize for Fiction at Brown University, where he was mentored by Robert Coover. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in The New York Times, Fuselit, nthposition, Softblow, Chaise Magazine, Lianhe Zaobao and Journeys: Words, Home, and Nation: An Anthology of Singapore Poetry. He is currently working on a debut collection of poems, thanks to an NAC arts creation fund grant.
Jason Lee
Jason Lee lives in Hong Kong and is a regular member and co-ordinator of the 'Out Loud' and 'Joyce is not Here' poetry groups. He has been recently published in the U.K. and Hong Kong and was nominated by Cha: An Asian Literary Journal for a Pushcart Prize (2009). He is currently studying for a PhD at Hong Kong University and working on a collection of poems called Beds in the East.
Laura Jane Lee
Laura Jane Lee is a Hong Kong-born poet, currently based between Singapore and Scotland. She has won the Sir Roger Newdigate Prize under her birth name, and was shortlisted for the Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize. Her work has appeared in the Straits Times, Poetry London and Ambit, among others. She has also read at the 52nd Poetry International Festival in Rotterdam, and at the 25th poesiefestival berlin. Her most recent pamphlet flinch & air was published with Out-Spoken Press in 2021.
Lee Tse Mei
Lee Tse Mei is a Singaporean lawyer who loves music, travelling, people and places. Her poems and essays have been published online and in Japan, and she is currently working on a series of original music soundtrack albums featuring the places that she’s visited.
Amanda Lee Koe
Amanda Lee Koe is the fiction editor of Esquire (Singapore), editor of creative non-fiction magazine POSKOD, co-editor of literary journal Ceriph and communications lead at design and communications practice studioKALEIDO. She is co-editor of Eastern Heathens, an anthology subverting Asian folklore, whilst her first book, Ministry of Moral Panic, is forthcoming.
Serene Leong
Serene is an adventurer with a gypsy soul who finds comfort in words. She writes about kindness on The Pride.
Faith Leong
An English literature graduate from the University of Western Australia, Faith Leong works as a communications executive in an arts and cultural organization.
Leow Hui Min Annabeth
Leow Hui Min Annabeth has been writing since 1998, when, at the age of five, she first decided that her life’s ambition lay in creative fiction. At present, she is working toward the completion of her high school diploma.
Joanne Leow
Joanne Leow is a PhD student in English at the University of Toronto. She has published work on nostalgia in Singapore literature and film,
and has also the intersections ofcosmopolitanism and postcolonial travel poetry. Her current research is on urban Canada and Singapore, immigrant writing and theories of space.
Alison Jean Lester
Alison Jean Lester lived in Singapore from 1999 until 2016. During that time, her short-story collection, Locked Out: Stories Far from Home, was published by Monsoon Books. She has two novels, Lillian on Life and Yuki Means Happiness.
Arthur Leung
An award-winning poet, Arthur Leung was born and raised in Hong Kong. He is a regular performer of his poetry and has poems published in anthologies such as Hong Kong U Writing and Fifty-Fifty, as well as in numerous magazines and journals including Smartish Pace, Loch Raven Review, Taj Mahal Review, Crannog Literary Magazine, Pulsar Poetry Magazine and elsewhere. Leung serves as External Editor of Yuan Yang and has been featured in the Man Hong Kong International Literary Festival. He was a finalist for the 2007 Erskine J. Poetry Prize and a winner in the 2008 Edwin Morgan International Poetry Competition.
Gabrielle Leung
Gabrielle Leung is set to graduate from Ateneo de Manila University with a major in Physics and a minor in Creative Writing. She was a fellow for Nonfiction in the 22nd Ateneo Heights Writers Workshop, and has previously been published in HEIGHTS, Plural: Prose Journal, and Kritika Kultura.
Rebecca Levick
Rebecca Levick recently graduated from Northumbria University, UK with a BA in English. Her stories have appeared in Cadaverine Magazine and Juke Pop Serials. She currently resides in the City of Leeds with her partner and cat.
Letitia Lew
Letitia Lew was born and raised in Singapore by a large, rowdy family. She worked for several years as a software developer in San Francisco and has two degrees from Stanford University.
Oswald LeWinter
Oswald LeWinter is an American poet living in Lisbon. He has been widely published internationally, and his awards include the International Rilke Prize for poems in German and English.
Daryl Li
No information available.
Julius Li
Julius teaches secondary school. He enjoys good food and not waiting for the bus. His favourite poet is Wallace Stevens.
Li Xueying
Xueying now works with Singapore Press Holdings. She was the first runner-up for the Angus Ross Prize in English Literature in 1997.
Robert Lietz
Robert Lietz's poems have appeared in more than one hundred journals, including Agni Review, Antioch Review, Mid-American Review, Poetry and Shenandoah. Eight collections of poems have been published, including Running in Place, At Park and East Division, The Lindbergh Half-century, The Inheritance, and Storm Service and After Business in the West: New and Selected Poems.
Joe Liew
Joe Liew Zhou Hau is a student of Philosophy. He writes prose and poetry in his free time.
Suchen Christine Lim
Suchen Christine Lim is the first winner of the Singapore Literature Prize (Fiction) in 1992, for her novel, A Fistful of Colours. Lim, who has four novels to her name, is also the author of short stories, children's stories, students' textbooks and a play. She was the International Writer-in-Residence at the University of Iowa, USA, in 2000.
Vincent Lim
Originally from Singapore, Vincent is an MBA student living in New York.
Desiree Lim
Desiree Lim is eighteen. She intends to 1) learn to drive, 2) read English Literature in the UK, and 3) become a rock star, in that order.
Gerline Lim
Gerline Lim is a Singaporean living in Germany, who sometimes misses her playground in the east side.
Al Lim
Al Lim is an anthropologist and poet. Currently, he is a PhD student in the combined Anthropology and Environmental Studies programme at Yale University.
Lim Wei Khai
Lim Wei Khai is an aspiring Singaporean writer based in Hong Kong. His work has appeared in SingPoWriMo 2020. He holds a BA in English Language and Literature from the University of Oxford.
Iain Lim Jun Rui
Iain Lim Jun Rui is a Singaporean poet and aspiring filmmaker currently reading Philosophy in Belgium. A two-time winner of the Love Poetry Competition and winner in the National Poetry Competition 2019, his poetry is published in OF ZOOS, Voice & Verse Magazine, Rambutan Literary, Kitaab and Twin Cities among others. His first documentary short is a finalist at Singapore Heritage Short Film Competition 2017."
Lim Cheng Tju
Lim Cheng Tju writes about history and pop culture. He wrote for BigO magazine and first met Chris Ho at the No Surrender gig in 1987.
Serena Lim
Serena writes freelance and travel articles from time to time.
Shirley Geok-lin Lim
Shirley Lim is an award-winning Malaysian-born American writer of poetry, fiction, and criticism. Her first collection of poems, Crossing The Peninsula, published in 1980, won her the Commonwealth Poetry Prize, a first both for an Asian and for a woman. Her memoir, Among the White Moon Faces, received the 1997 American Book Award. Lim is a professor in the English Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Lim Hern Khoon
Lim Hern Khoon fell in love with the English language unexpectedly during national service.
Daryl Lim Wei Jie
Daryl Lim Wei Jie (林伟杰) is a poet, translator and literary critic from Singapore. His latest collection of poetry is Anything but Human (2021), which was shortlisted for the 2022 Singapore Literature Prize. His work has been featured in POETRY Magazine, Poetry Daily, The Southwest Review and elsewhere. He edited Food Republic: A Singapore Literary Banquet (2020), the first definitive anthology of literary food writing from Singapore.
Chloe Lim
Chloe Lim graduated from the University of Oxford (BA, MSt) with a keen interest in translated literature and trauma theory. Her work can be found in Asymptote, The Millions, and HKRB, amongst others. She is now a teacher.
Lim Xin Hwee
Lim Xin Hwee is currently studying English Literature and Linguistics at Nanyang Technological University. She has published classical concert reviews on The Flying Inkpot. She loves reading medieval manuscripts and contemporary poetry.
Ash Lim
Ash Lim has worked in advertising for over 20 years. He lives in Singapore.
Li-Min Lim
Li-Min Lim studied literature in Singapore and the US, and has a passion for fiction and imagined otherworlds. One of her short stories was published in the anti-realist fiction anthology this is how you walk on the moon (Ethos Books, 2016).
Lim Chee Kam
Lim Chee Kam holds a BA in English Language and Literature from NUS, and is currently training to be a teacher. He likes food and books. He hopes to eat, read and write for a living one day.
Valen Lim
Valen Lim is an amateur poet, student, and human being. His works have previously been published in various editions of SingPoWriMo.
Jerome Lim
Jerome Lim is a final year student of English and Latin Literature at the University of York. He is the deputy editor-in-chief of Unseen the Magazine, and the Sing Lit Station associate for poetry.sg.
Jiaying Lim
Born and raised in Singapore, Jiaying graduated from Columbia University in 2016, and will soon start working in Philadelphia.
Michelle Lim
Michelle is a PhD candidate in art history at Princeton University. In 2004, she curated the giant Visions and Illusions exhibition in Singapore.
Jeremy Lim Mun Loong
Jeremy Lim Mun Loong is a student of English Literature with NUS.
Lin Hongen
Hongen is a 20-year-old National Serviceman with an interest in short stories and computer gaming.
Jamie Lin Weirong
Jamie Lin Weirong was born in Singapore in 1983.
Nicholas Liu
Nicholas Liu graduated from the National University of Singapore. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in magazines such as Fuselit, Likestarlings, Poetry Review and Stand.
King Llanza
King Llanza (he/they) is a queer ecopoet from the Philippines.
Benjamin Lo
Benjamin Lo is a Singaporean English tutor who writes short stories about odd relationships, animals and lots of walking in his spare time. He hopes to keep writing for as long as he possibly can.
Miriam Lo Wei Wei
Miriam Wei Wei Lo attempts to juggle child-rearing, writing and snorkelling whilst simultaneously battling assumptions about what a pastor's wife should be like. She was born in Canada, grew up in Singapore, and now lives in Margaret River, Western Australia. Her latest chapbook, No Pretty Words, is available from Picaro Press.
Peter Loh
Peter is a retired maths teacher.
Loh Guan Liang
Loh Guan Liang is the author of Transparent Strangers (Math Paper Press, 2012). His works have appeared in Enizagam, Kin Poetry Journal, Mascara Literary Review and elsewhere. He is also the winner of the 2011 Moving Words poetry competition organised by SMRT and The Literary Centre.
Loh Jee Kean
Jee Kean is currently a full-time choral director and staff member of Westwood Secondary School and his contributions include spearheading the school's IT music programme. He teaches loop-based composition using the computer and he and his students were recently interviewed by The Computer Times for their innovation in the area of IT music in the secondary school curriculum.
Kendrick Loo
Kendrick Loo is an English graduate from the University of St Andrews, Scotland. He is currently serving as the Reviews Editor for Singapore Unbound.
Melvin Look
Melvin Look is a consultant gastrointestinal surgeon with his own private
practice in Singapore but is working on a second career as a tattoo artist.
He is currently saving his pennies
to buy a tea plantation in the Cameron Highlands.
Richard Lord
Richard is a New Englander working as a journalist.
Wayne Low
Wayne is a media student focused on video production and storytelling. Having recently worked at an Alternative Radio Station in Manila for six months, he believes that the isolation propelled him to start seriously writing prose and poetry.
Colin Low Yu Cong
Colin graduated from the University of Chicago with an official major in English language and literature, and an unofficial one in cinema and cultural studies. He has previously published criticism for the film sites SINdie and Against the Hype, and currently teaches secondary school English and literature.
Karen Low
Karen is currently a marketing professional in the info-communications industry, covering the Asia-Pacific. On the Dean's List for her first degree, she graduated from the National University of Singapore (NUS) the following year with a Bachelor of Social Science Second Class (Upper Division) Honours Degree, majoring in sociology. She occasionally tries to write more than just emails and SMSes.
Low Lai Chow
Low Lai Chow is a writer. She is based in Singapore.
Low Ying Ping
Ying Ping has a Master’s degree in English Literature and works in education. Her poems have previously appeared in Singa.
Eden Low
Eden Low is currently training to be a lawyer. She enjoys making oddly specific Spotify playlists and spends an inordinate amount of time thinking about her next meal.
Eric Low Soon Liang
Eric Low lives and works in singapore in the audio-visual industry; wishes he could live a little more and work a little less.
Charles Lowe
Charles Lowe lives in Alfred New York. His work has appeared in Slow Trains and The Hardy Review, and is forthcoming in print in The Poetry Motel. "The All-Night Attendant at the Foreign Expert's Compound" is part of a work in progress entitled The Blind City.
Mabel Lui
Mabel is a twenty-two year old Sociology student from Singapore. She enjoys laughing without restraint, rooting for the underdog
and mcsweeneys.net.
Jason Erik Lundberg
Jason Erik Lundberg is an American expatriate now living in Singapore, and the author of The Time Traveler's Son (2008) and Four Seasons in One Day (2003, with Janet Chui). He has also co-edited A Field Guide to Surreal Botany (2008) and Scattered, Covered, Smothered (2004), both from Two Cranes Press. His latest book, Red Dot Irreal, a collection of equatorial fantastika, will be released by Singapore-based publisher Math Paper Press in June 2011.
Ma Shaoling
Ma Shaoling, age 23, studying and keeping her fingers crossed always at the keyboard.
Monica S. Macansantos
Monica S. Macansantos is a poet and fictionist based in the Philippines. She currently teaches literature and writing at the University of the Philippines-Los Banos.
Kent MacCarter
Currently pursuing an MA in writing at University of Melbourne, Kent MacCarter has publication credits in The Age, Stylus, Cordite, and upcoming appearances in Meanjin and Poetry New Zealand.
Katrina Madarang
Katrina Madarang is a poet based in Manila, Philippines. When words are scarce, she plays the bass and writes music instead.
K B Ryan Joshua Mahindapala
K B Ryan Joshua Mahindapala FRSA is a Singaporean author and Pushcart Prize-nominated poet. He frequently speaks and writes on topics related to heritage, culture and identity.
Sarah Mak
Sarah Mak is a writer from Singapore. She is currently a Communication Studies major at Nanyang Technological University, and she is pursuing minors in Creative Writing and Film. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in Eunoia Review, Silver Birch Press, and SingPoWriMo, among others. She is also a member of writing collective zer0sleep.
Louis Malloy
Louis Malloy lives in Nottingham, England. He works as a computer programmer but prefers to write fiction. His short stories have been published in a variety of magazines, including The New Writer, The Dublin Quarterly, Aesthetica, Eclectica, Projected Letters, Buzzwords, Prose-Ax and Southern Ocean Review. He has won prizes in The Momaya Short Story Competition and the BBC London Book Fair competition and was a finalist in the Middlesex University Press Literary Prize
Alfonso Manalastas
Alfonso Manalastas is an op-ed contributing writer, a spoken word artist, and a poet based in Manila. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Likhaan: The Journal of Contemporary Philippine Literature (UP Press), Cha, Voice & Verse and Cordite Poetry Review, among others.
Sharanya Manivannan
Sharanya Manivannan was born in India in 1985 and grew up in Sri Lanka and Malaysia. A writer, dancer, painter, actress, photographer, journalist and activist, she is working on her first novel and a collection of poems. She lives in Kuala Lumpur.
DS Maolalai
DS Maolalai has been nominated nine times for Best of the Net and five times for the Pushcart Prize. His poetry has been released in two collections, Love is Breaking Plates in the Garden (Encircle Press, 2016), Sad Havoc Among the Birds (Turas Press, 2019) and Noble Rot (Turas Press, 2022).
Gianni Marchetti
Gianni Marchetti (1955) has published a collection of tales, Francese alle medie (2005, Milan), a collection of poems, Una donna così (2008, Turin) and a CD titled Fa rima con Jazz. Sette poesie sul jazz (2008, Novara, scored by Andrea Trecate based on a selection of poems taken from "Una donna così").
Natalie Marinho
Natalie Marinho is a freelance writer and game designer based in Singapore. Born in Perth, Western Australia to Filipino/Portuguese parents, she has lived and travelled throughout Europe and the Asia-Pacific region. She writes short stories and is currently editing her first novel.
Zia Marshall
Zia Marshall is a learning designer and communication specialist.
J.H. Martin
J.H. Martin was born in London, England. In search of joy and experience he hitched and wandered across Europe, then made his way to the Far East and travelled extensively in the wilds of China where he now resides.
John Mateer
John Mateer is the author of seven collections of poetry, including Barefoot Speech, Loanwords, The Ancient Capital of Images and, most recently, Southern Barbarians.
Allen McGill
Originally from NYC, Allen lives, writes, acts and directs theatre in Mexico. His published fiction, non-fiction, poetry, plays, photos, etc., have appeared in print as well as on line: NY Times, The Writer, Newsday, Literary
Potpourri, Poetry Midwest, Herons Nest, Frogpond, Modern Haiku, World Haiku Review, many others. He is haibun editor for Simply
Haiku.
Abhishek Mehrotra
Abhishek is a writer based in Singapore.
Miguel Ángel Mendo
Born in Madrid, Miguel Ángel Mendo has published more than 20 children’s literature titles with the most prestigious Spanish publishing houses. He is also the author of the adult novels, The Incomplete Light and The Infinite Geyser and Antirrefranero Español, a critical essay about some of the most popular Spanish sayings and proverbs.
Alice Mendoza
Alice is a Singaporean presently reading Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities at Wesleyan College.
Corey Mesler
Corey Mesler is the owner of Burke's Book Store, in Memphis, Tennessee, one of America's oldest (1875) and best independent bookstores. He has published poetry and fiction in numerous journals and his first novel, Talk: A Novel in Dialogue, appeared in 2002. A poetry chapbook, Chin-Chin in Eden, is just out from Still Waters Press.
Geoffrey Miller
Geoffrey Miller is a lecturer of composition at Qatar University, Doha, Qatar. His photography has appeared in periodicals in the USA and Hong Kong.
Lauren Mills
Lauren Mills lives in Iowa City, where she works for the Iowa Center for Public Affairs Journalism as an assistant editor and reporter.
Michael Mintrom
Michael Mintrom is an Australian poet and regular visitor to Singapore. He has published in many literary journals including The Ekphrastic Review, Landfall, and Quadrant. He is a past winner of the University of Canterbury’s MacMillan Brown Prize for Writers.
Reid Mitchell
Reid Mitchell is a New Orleanian currently teaching in Wuxi. He has published short stories, poems, and one novel.
J.D. Mitchell-Lumsden
J.D. Mitchell-Lumsden co-edits Erg’s chapbook series and Cricket Online Review. His poems have appeared, or are forthcoming, in The Journal (UK), Lilies and Cannonballs Review, BlazeVox, Red Rock Review and elsewhere.
Nicky Moey
Nicky began writing stories in 1983 and had his first book, Let's Play Games, published in 1986. It was later reissued in 1990 as Pontianak: 13 Chilling Tales. His other books include 999: True Cases from the CID, Sing a Song of Suspense (1988) and Princess of Darkness (1992).
Clara Mok
Clara Mok was selected for the Mentor Access Project 2016/17 by the National Arts Council. Her short stories are published in A Tapestry of Colours 1 and 2 – Stories of Asia (Marshall Cavendish) and Singapore at Home: Life Across Lines (Kitaab).
Mok Zining
Mok Zining is obsessed with random things: orchids, arabesques, sand. Her first book, The Orchid Folios (Ethos Books, 2020), was shortlisted for the 2022 Singapore Literature Prize in English Poetry. Currently, she is at work on an essay collection, The Earthmovers.
Vineetha Mokkil
Vineetha Mokkil is a writer based in New Delhi, India. She is the author of the collection A Happy Place and Other Stories (HarperCollins, April 2014). She writes a monthly column on writing for Litro Magazine, New York.
Juan Carlos Montenegro
Juan Carlos Felipe G. Montenegro is an AB History graduate based in Metro Manila. His literary works have been featured in Ani, Cha, Voice & Verse, and Dapitan.
George Moore
George Moore's most recent collections are All Night Card Game in the Back Room of Time (2007) and Headhunting (2002). His poems have also been published in The Atlantic Monthly, Poetry Magazine, The Colorado Review, North American Review, Eclectica and Cortland Review. He has been nominated twice for a Pushcart Prize in 2009, and was nominated this year for the Rhysling Poetry Award.
Marshall Moore
Marshall Moore is the author of seven books, the most recent of which is a novel entitled Inhospitable, which is being published by Camphor Press in Taipei in May 2018. He is a co-editor of The Queen of Statue Queen: New Short Fiction from Hong Kong.
Michele Koh Morollo
Michele Koh Morollo is a Singaporean writer living in Hong Kong. She is the author of two short fiction collections, including Without: Stories of Longing and Lack.
Rheea Mukherjee
Rheea Mukherjee received her MFA in creative writing from California College of the Arts in San Francisco. Her previous fiction has been a top 25 finalist in Glimmer Train’s Very Short Fiction Award. Her unpublished collection of stories, In These Cities We Dreamed, was a semi-finalist in the Black Lawrence Press, St Lawrence Book Award, 2011.
Dipika Mukherjee
Dipika Mukherjee is the editor of two collections of short stories from Malaysia and Singapore: The Merlion and Hibiscus in 2002, and Silverfish New Writing in 2006. Her poems have been published in Hong Kong, the United States and the United Kingdom, as well as broadcast over Singapore radio. She currently teaches Creative Writing in Amsterdam.
Arka Mukhopadhyay
Arka Mukhopadhyay was born in Calcutta and now lives and works in Bangalore as a poet, poetry-performer, theatre practitioner and performance artist. He is the joint winner of the TFA creative writing award, 2008, and the third place holder in the poetry slam at the Kalaghoda festival, 2008. He regularly performs in different parts of India.
Christopher Mulrooney
Christopher Mulrooney has written poems in fourW, My Name Is Mud, Why
Vandalism? and The Collared Peccary.
Ranjani Murali
Ranjani Murali received her MFA in poetry from George Mason University. Her poetry, nonfiction and translations have appeared in Pratilipi, Cricket Online Review, Kartika Review and elsewhere. Winner of the 2014 Srinivas Rayaprol Poetry Prize in India, Ranjani lives and writes in Chicago.
Neil Murphy
Neil Murphy teaches in the English literature dept at in NTU's School of Humanities and Social Sciences. His book, Irish Fiction and Postmodern Doubt, was published in March 2004.
Mark A. Murphy
Mark Murphy has had work published in Poetry New Zealand, Poetry Salzburg Review (Austria), Poetry Scotland, The Warwick Review (UK), Istanbul Literature Review (Turkey), The Tampa Review (US)and The Stinging Fly (Ireland), among others.
Chris Murray
Chris Murray is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the English Division at the Nanyang Technological University.
Musa Karim
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Nadia Ayesha
Nadia Ayesha is a Singaporean writer currently studying for a Masters in Creative Writing at LASALLE College of the Arts. She is also an English enrichment teacher and is working on her debut novel.
Rohan Naidu
Rohan Naidu is a rising junior at Yale-NUS College. After eighteen monsoons in India, the liberal arts lured Rohan away to Singapore where he studies Relativity along with Relativism.
Meera Nair
Meera Nair is a fourth-year undergraduate at the National University of Singapore. She enjoys writing in her spare time.
Pallavi Narayan
Pallavi Narayan has authored Pamuk’s Istanbul: The Self and the City (2022) and edited Singapore at Home: Life across Lines (2021). Her work has been published or is forthcoming in The Best Asian Short Stories 2023, Asingbol: An Archaeology of the Singaporean Poetic Form, SingPoWriMo 2015 and many more. She has been the first Frankfurt Fellow from Singapore to the Frankfurt Buchmesse (2018) and Jalan Besar Fellow with Sing Lit Station (2023).
Amjad Nasser
Amjad Nasser was born in 1955 in al-Turra, Jordan. He has published nine collections of poetry and one travel book. Several different volumes of selected poetry have been published, including French and Italian translations. He is also and one of the founding editors of Banipal magazine. Nasser now lives in London.
Natasya Ismail
Natasya Ismail is an undergraduate majoring in English Literature at Nanyang Technological University. She spends her days pouring over books over an unlimited supply of tea.
Subashini Navaratnam
Subashini Navaratnam lives in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and has published poetry in Poetika Malaysia, Aesthetix, and Sein und Werden. Her writings on books and non-fiction have appeared in The Star (Malaysia) and Sini Sana, among others.
Nazry Bahrawi
Nazry Bahrawi is a British Chevening scholar reading Comparative Literature at the University of Edinburgh. His socio-cultural commentaries have appeared in Bangkok Post, Brunei Times and Today newspapers.
Imogen Neale
Imogen Neale has written in freelance capacity for magazines such as (the now defunct) Staple and Lucid, Pulp, Varsity, Lumiere and the Graduate Journal of Asia Pacific Studies. In 2005 she completed her Sociology MA thesis that looked at the Singaporean government’s use of culture and the arts as economic and developmental tools.
Kristie Ng
Kristie Ng is learning to be a writer. She is interested in psychogeography, city symphonies and once told Simon Armitage a joke which he laughed at, politely.
Faye Ng Yu Ci
Faye Ng Yu Ci resides in Singapore, where she inhabits spaces both defined and in the negative. Her poetry has appeared in Cordite Poetry, Lammergeier, and Cha: An Asian Literary Journal, among others. She hopes to use her words to mean more.
Jean Hui Ng
Jean Hui Ng is from Singapore and currently lives in Oxfordshire, UK.
Ng Wei Chian
Ng Wei Chian is gradually being squeezed out of her room by the growing pile of dusty books and records waiting to be read and listened to.
Megan Ng
Megan is currently flying around the world. She read English Studies in Durham University, UK.
Paul Ng
Paul Ng is a literature lecturer at UniSIM in Singapore.
Ng Shing Yi
Ng Shing Yi works at Mediacorp, having graduated from Brown University.
Ng Xi Jie
Seeker of forest, circus, stars; lives in Upper Thomson.
Sam Ng
Sam Ng graduated from the University of Kent, Canterbury in 2003 with a master’s in English literature. From 2005 to 2008, he taught English literature at Anglo-Chinese Junior College.
Leonard Ng
Leonard Ng is an undergraduate at the National University of Singapore. In his free time he tries to change the world. Whether or not he succeeds isn't for him to say.
Joseph Ng Zhen Ye
Joseph Ng Zhen Ye is a writer from Malaysia. He is the author of Death and Other Things. His short story, 'Prose and Koans', was featured in Esquire Magazine Malaysia's March 2014 issue.
Ng Teng Kuan
Ng Teng Kuan studied Comparative Literature and East Asian Studies at Princeton University. After graduating, he worked in the Princeton Chinese department and a campus ministry for two years. He is currently a student at Fuller Theological Seminary.
Joson Ng
Joson is in his 20s, and is currently working as an engineer after graduating from NTU in 2006.
Ng Yi-Sheng
Ng Yi-Sheng (b. 1980) graduated in 2005 from Columbia University, majoring in Comparative Literature, Creative Writing and Coming Out. He is the author of Last Boy and a book of stories based on interviews with gay, lesbian and bisexual people in Singapore.
Gaston Ng
Gaston is a Hwa Chong prisoner secretly in love with Kundera and regret. Royksopp, twilight, Four Tet and vodka are his reasons for living.
Kenny Nguyen
Kenny Nguyen attended the University of Texas at Austin where he obtained his doctorate degree. He currently works in healthcare, practicing in oncology, and has a passion for reading and writing poetry in his spare time.
Jal Nicholl
Jal Nicholl is a poet living in Melbourne, Australia. His work has
previously appeared in the journals Shampoo, Stylus, Famous Reporter and
Dotlit.
Jeremy Noel-Tod
Jeremy Noel-Tod is the revising editor of the Oxford Companion to Modern Poetry. He teaches at the University of East Anglia, and is a frequent reviewer for the Sunday Times, the Daily Telegraph, the Literary Review and the Times Literary Supplement.
Noor Hasnah Adam
Noor Hasnah Adam’s new collection of cultural essays, Mis3 Rasa Budaya, contains themes ranging from nature, culture, history and Malay literature. She is the winner of several awards, including the Golden Point Award for her poetry and short story. She is working to publish her first novel and collections of short theatre scripts.
Nur`Ain Zainal
Nur'Ain Zainal is a student at NTU.
Nuraliah Norasid
Nuraliah currently works as a researcher with an organisation that deals largely in social and religious issues. Outside of her occupation, she is interested in creative writing, particularly in the area of contemporary mythopoesis and social critique as constructed within the architectures of narratives.
Nuriesya Bakar
Nuriesya Bakar is an emerging writer based in Singapore who enjoys dabbling in literary fiction, especially short stories. She tries to take a critical view of the complex world around us, while showcasing its love and kindness.
Nurul Wahidah
Nurul Wahidah is a graduate of Psychology from Nanyang Technological University. She wants to be a traveller in this world.
Nurulhuda Arslan
Nurulhuda Arslan is an English Literature major at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. She is currently working on a graphic novel script for her final year project.
O Thiam Chin
O Thiam Chin is the author of five collections of short fiction, most recently Love, Or Something Like Love. O was a recipient of the National Arts Council’s Young Artist Award in 2012, and has been shortlisted for the 2014 Singapore Literature Prize. His debut novel, Now That It's Over, won the inaugural Epigram Books Fiction Prize in 2015, as well as the Best Fiction title at the 2017 Singapore Book Awards. His second novel, Fox Fire Girl, was published in March 2017, and a new story collection, Signs of Life, is forthcoming.
Lincoln O`Neill
Lincoln O'Neill lives in Wellington, New Zealand. He has been published in New Zealand and in the UK, the US, South Africa, India, Austria and Australia.
Victor Fernando R. Ocampo
Victor Fernando R. Ocampo is a Singapore-based Filipino author. His work has previously appeared in anthologies such as The Ayam Curtain, Fish Eats Lion and Lontar vol.2.
Stephen Oliver
Stephen Oliver is the author of six collections of poetry, including a selected, Night of Warehouses: Poems 1978-2000. Recently published: a poetry chapbook, Deadly Pollen (2003), and
Ballads, Satire & Salt – A Book of Diversions (2003); a new collection called Either Side The Horizon is due in 2005. Work has also been recently published in Alba, Comet, Fire, Kitchen Sink, Pemmican, Orbis and Samsara Quarterly, among others. Stephen is a transtasman poet and writer who lives in Sydney.
S D Olsen
S D Olsen is a writer of both fiction and non-fiction, and in his day job he is an international business and politics commentator. He grew up in the UK, studied at Oxford University, and served in the British Army, but his family has been in and out of Singapore for generations.
Tiffany Ong
Tiffany Ong is a graduate of Goldsmiths, University of London, and is now pursuing a Masters in creative writing at Royal Holloway, UOL. She has written a collection of short stories, and is working on a novel.
Timothy Ong
Timothy Ong is a graduate of Film, Sound & Video, Ngee Ann Polytechnic. His third-year short film, Left Unsaid, can be found on the video streaming platform Viddsee. He is currently an undergraduate student at the National University of Singapore.
Eugene Ong
Eugene Ong is interested in city planning, architecture and photography. His writing has also appeared in Asian Cha.
Agnes Hanying Ong
Agnes Hanying Ong is a poet, whose poems have appeared on Softblow and elsewhere. Born in Malaysia and raised in the dangerous bordertown of Johor Bahru, she has been admitted to Columbia University.
Miguel Jaime Ongpin
No information available.
John Chinaka Onyeche
John Chinaka Onyeche, also known as "Rememberajc", is a husband, father and poet from Nigeria, and the author of Echoes Across The Atlantic. He is currently a student of History and Diplomatic Studies at Ignatius Ajuru University Of Education in the city of Port Harcourt Rivers State in Nigeria.
Clarissa Oon
Clarissa Oon’s writings on culture have appeared in The Straits Times and s-pores.com. She is the author of a book on the history of Singapore’s English-language theatre.
Mark Ortega
Mark Ortega is a Singaporean writer.
Ouyang Yu
Ouyang Yu, now based in Melbourne, Australia, is originally from China. To date, he has published 65 books, including some self-translated ones in English and Chinese, in the field of fiction, non-fiction, poetry, literary translation and literary criticism.
Ow Yeong Wai Kit
Ow Yeong Wai Kit is an editor of poetry anthologies such as From Walden to Woodlands (2015) and Love at the Gallery (2017), and the organiser of the inaugural National Poetry Recitation Competition (2023), held as part of Poetry Festival Singapore. Currently a teacher, writer, and PhD candidate at the National Institute of Education (Nanyang Technological University), he has an M.A. in English Literature from University College London.
Stephen Pain
Stephen Pain is an Anglo-American writer currently based in Paris. He has been published in several magazines both offline and online. Once upon a time he lived in Bukit Timah and has fond memories of Singapore. He is also the founder of a new methodology, biorhetorics.
Meenakshi Palaniappan
Meenakshi is an educator and Literature enthusiast. She writes to think, and enjoys playing with words to make sense of the world around her. Her poems have been published in online journals such as The Tiger Moth Review and Shot Glass Journal.
Laksmi Pamuntjak
Laksmi Pamuntjak has published two collections of poetry, Ellipsis and The Anagram, a collection of short stories based on paintings, The Diary of R.S.: Musings on Art, a treatise on violence and mythology entitled Perang, Langit dan Dua Perempuan (War, Heaven, and Two Women), among others. She lives in Jakarta.
Ruby Pan
Ruby Pan now leads a monastic life.
Alvin Pang
Alvin Pang is the author of two Straits Times Top Ten Books of the Year : Testing The Silence (1997), and City of Rain (2003). A first class honours graduate in Literature from the University of York, he is also an Honorary Fellow in Writing with the University of Iowa's International Writing Program (2002). He is also co-editor of No Other City: The Ethos Anthology of Urban Poetry and Love Gathers All: A Singapore-Filippino Love Poetry Anthology.
Jayashree Panicker
Jayashree Panicker is a Singaporean writer. She currently works as a digital editor.
Meghna Pant
Meghna Pant is an Indian writer based in Dubai and New York. Her short stories have appeared or are forthcoming in EGO Magazine, Opium Magazine, Every Day Fiction and DifferSense.
Yongsoo Park
Yongsoo Park is a filmmaker and novelist from New York City. He wrote and directed the seminal Asian American indie feature film Free Country (1996) and is the author of the novels Boy Genius (2002) and Las Cucarachas (2004).
Stephen Derwent Partington
Stephen Derwent Partington teaches in Kenya.
Rajeev Patke
Rajeev Patke has published essays and reviews on English writing from Singapore locally and overseas, including a selective bibliography of criticism on the topic for Singapore Studies II (1999). He teaches literature at the NUS.
Rick Patriarca
Rick Patriarca is a queer writer from the Philippines. He is currently completing his MA in Creative Writing at UP Diliman. He writes fiction and short plays.
Jessica Lee Patterson
Jessica Lee Patterson teaches history of art at the University of San Diego. Her research into the art and architecture of Thai Buddhist temples was the starting point of an enduring fascination with the cultural richness and complexity of 19th-century South-east Asia.
Jared Pearce
Some of Jared Pearce's poems have recently been or will soon be shared in Red River Review, Review Americana, Red Fez and Pirene's Fountain, and his debut collection is due from Aubade Press next year.
Y.S. Pek
Y.S. Pek is a graduate student in the Department of Art and Archaeology at Princeton University. Prior to this, she has studied art history in the US, Germany and the UK.
Pek Wen Jie
Pek Wen Jie is a 16-year-old boy studying at Raffles Institution. Fascinated with the written word, he alternates between computer games, slacking off school, and toying around with random plot ideas that come to him.
Simon Perchik
Simon Perchik is an attorney whose poems have appeared in Partisan Review, Osiris, Poetry, The New Yorker, and elsewhere. His most recent collection is The Rosenblum Poems published by Cholla Needles Arts & Literary Library in 2020.
Gemma Pereira
Gemma Pereira wanted to be a writer at age 12 but forgot her ambition until recently. She now works as an English language and literature teacher.
Phan Ming Yen
Phan Ming Yen is the author of a collection of short fiction, That Night by the Beach and Other Stories for A Film Score (2012), and one of the four writers in the collaborative writing projects, The Adopted: Stories from Angkor (2015) and Lost Bodies: Poems Between Portugal and Home (2016). His writing has also appeared in Best New Singaporean Short Stories: Volume One (2013) and Kulit: Asian Literature for the Language Classroom (2013).
Francis Phang
Francis is a dancer who has represented NUS in the 1st Asia-Pacific Competition, in which NUS beat China & the Philippines to emerge champion.
Cheyenne Alexandria Phillips
Cheyenne Alexandria Phillips is a writer, performer, educator and Associate Artist with Checkpoint Theatre. She has written and performed in two plays and one audio experience, as well as published in several anthologies. She is also a licensed Tour Guide.
Anitha Devi Pillai
Anitha Devi Pillai (PhD) is an applied linguist and teacher educator at National Institute of Education in Singapore, where she teaches courses on writing pedagogy and writing. She has predominantly researched and published several research papers based on empirical data on writing and literacy practices, and contributed articles to local newspapers.
Mark Pirie
Mark Pirie is the Managing Editor for HeadworX, a small press publisher of poetry/fiction. His poems have been published in India, New Zealand, Australia, Croatia, the US and the UK. He is an editor of JAAM (New Zealand), the contributing New Zealand editor for papertiger, and the author of Gallery A Selection.
Wena Poon
Wena Poon was born in Singapore in 1974. Her fiction was published in 2002 by Penguin in The Merlion and the Hibiscus: Contemporary Short Stories from Singapore and Malaysia. In 2007 MPH published a collection of her short fiction Lions In Winter, which was listed for the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award and the Singapore Literature Prize.
Paul Lobo Portugés
Paul Lobo Portugés has taught creative writing at UCSB, UC Berkeley, USC, SBCC, and the University of Provence. His books include The Visionary Poetics of Allen Ginsberg, Saving Grace, Hands Across the Earth, The Flower Vendor, The Silent Spring of Rachel Carson, and Mao (forthcoming).
John Andrew M. del Prado
John Andrew M. del Prado (born 1992) earned both his BA and MA degrees in Literature from the University of Santo Tomas. Also a textbook writer, he is a faculty member of the Department of English, School of Humanities, Ateneo de Manila University.
Ess Aubrey Gabrelyn Prakash
Aubrey has taught English language skills from primary to tertiary levels and is currently pursuing her MA in Creative Writing at Nanyang Technological University. Her short stories have been published in Kitaab and Epiphany.
Edmund Price
Originally from the UK, Edmund Price has lived in Hong Kong since 1996. His debut novel The Gilded Cage was published in 2014. His story 'Lennonism' won the Most Creative Prize in the 2014 Hong Kong Top Story competition. He has an MFA in Creative Writing.
Gilbert Wesley Purdy
Gilbert Wesley Purdy’s work in poetry, prose and translation has appeared in many journals, paper and electronic, including: Jacket (Australia); The Pedestal Magazine; Poetry International (San Diego State University); Grand Street; SLANT (University of Central Arkansas); and Eclectica. His Hyperlinked Online bibliography appears in the pages of the Catalyzer Journal.
Qamar Firdaus Saini
Qamar Firdaus Saini serves in the Public Service, and writes to remember the things he forgot. His works can be found in Moving Words 2011: A Poetry Anthology, and is forthcoming in ASINGBOL: An Archaeology of the Singapore Poetic Form, SIngPoWriMo 2016: The Anthology, and This Is Not A Safety Barrier: An Anthology of Poetry and Photography.
Qing Yang
Qing Yang is a professional poker player who reads and writes in his spare time. He has an engineering degree lying somewhere in the house.
Mohammad A. Quayum
Mohammad Quayum is a professor in the Department of English Language and Literature of the
International Islamic University Malaysia.
Quek Shin Yi
Quek Shin Yi is a Psychology undergraduate at the National University of Singapore who is currently being mentored by Dave Chua under the National Arts Council's Mentorship Access Programme. She was the third-prize winner for the Golden Point Award for short stories in 2007.
Nicholas Quek
Nicholas is a moment between breaths, subsisting on borrowed time. He is a physician functioning at variable capacity, and a member of the literary collective zerosleep. His work has appeared in The Tiger Moth Review, SingPoWriMo, and Eunoia Review. Every morning, he relearns how to comfort always.
KarLuis Quek
KarLuis read law at the National University of Singapore, where he received the Montrose Memorial Prize upon graduating in 2016. He writes poetry, translations, and short fiction from time to time.
Gabriel Ra
Gabriel was born in thirty-one cycles of the sun ago and now lives in an undisclosed place in Asia.
Rabab Ahmed
Rabab Ahmed is a Bangladeshi-American ESL teacher living in Singapore. Her stories originate from her various personal and travel experiences, with a deep focus on themes of identity and belonging.
Sheo S. Rai
Sheo S. Rai is a public relations consultant who holds an honours degree in political science from the National University of Singapore.
Arjun Rajendran
Arjun has previously published in various literary journals including Pyrta, Mascara Literary Review and Switched-on Gutenberg. He lives and works in Austin, Texas.
Anisha Ralhan
Anisha Ralhan works as a freelance content writer in Singapore. She recently obtained a master’s degree in creative writing from LASALLE College of the Arts. Her essays and short stories have been published in anthologies such as What We Inherit, Best Asian Short Stories and more. She thinks of herself as a cat whisperer but Mowgli, her cat, disagrees.
Ranjani Rao
Ranjani Rao, scientist by training and writer by choice, is currently working on a memoir titled Starting Over: Marriage, Motherhood and Other Midlife Adventures, chronicling her family’s fresh start in Singapore.
Mani Rao
Mani Rao is a poet based in Hong Kong. She has written six books of poetry: Wingspan, Catapult Season, Living Shadows, The Last Beach, Salt and Echolocation.
Steven Ratiner
Steven Ratiner is a poet and educator whose work has appeared in numerous magazines including Parnassus, Agni Review, The California Quarterly and Poetry Australia. Author of three chapbooks of poetry and a full-length collection of poetry interviews, Giving Their Word, Steven also reviews poetry for The Washington Post. In 2019, he was appointed Poet Laureate of Arlington, Massachusetts.
Robert Raymer
Robert Raymer's short stories have appeared in The Literary Review, Thema, London Magazine, Staple, Paris Transcontinental, Northern Perspective and Best of Silverfish 2001-2005. He has been teaching a creative writing course in Malaysia at the university level since 1996 and was the editor for Silverfish New Writings 4 (2004). Lovers and Strangers, a collection of short stories set in Malaysia and Singapore, was published by Heinemann Asia (1993) and Lovers and Strangers Revisited by Silverfish (2006).
Devika Rege
Devika Rege was born in India and currently resides in Mumbai
Emil Rem
The child of Ismaili Muslim parents, Emil Rem was born to a middle-class East Indian family living in Tanzania. At the age of five, amid the political upheavals in Tanzania at the time, he was uprooted and shipped off to England, where he was brought up by a working-class English family. His teenage life was spent commuting between one culture and the other. Eventually, considering himself an alien to both cultures, he emigrated to Canada.
G.J. Reynolds
G.J. Reynolds lives in the United States and teaches at Ferris State University. From 2003 to 2004, he was a Fulbrighter in Tunisia, where the novel he is working on is set.
Ron Riddell
Ron Riddell is a New Zealand poet and festival director of the Wellington International Poetry Festival.
Camille Rivera
Camille Rivera is an MA Creative Writing student at the University of the Philippines Diliman. She was fellow for poetry at the 53rd Silliman University National Writers' Workshop and 15th IYAS National Writers' Workshop.
Anthony Robbins
Anthony Robbins' collections of poems are The Very Thought of You (University of Georgia Press, 1999) and On the Tropic of Time (Eastern Washington Press/ Lynx House, 1995). A former Fulbright Scholar to the Bahamas and an NEA grantee, he works as a free-lance editor in North Carolina, USA.
Crispin Rodrigues
Crispin Rodrigues is the author of three poetry collections and co-editor of Crazy Little Pyromaniacs, an anthology of unpublished youth poets. His latest poetry collection is How Now Blown Crow (2021). He moderates Head2Head, an online panel series co-organised by the National Library Board.
John Rothfork
John Rothfork's criticism has also appeared in the Canadian journal, Mosaic; a French anthology on Ishiguro’s work; and the journal Commentary, published by the National University of Singapore; among others. He has also had the pleasure of teaching for the University of Maryland in Kuala Lumpur.
Daniel de Roulet
Daniel de Roulet was born in 1944 in Geneva. Writing in both French and German, he represents two major neighbouring Swiss cultures. His recent novels are published in Paris and carry the motifs of running and the colour blue: The Blue Line, The Blue Century and Grey-Blue. He has also published an autobiography Double, in 1998. Daniel de Roulet lives in Frasne, France.
Souradeep Roy
Souradeep is a student of English literature at the Scottish Church College, Kolkata. His poems have been published or are forthcoming in Static Poetry III (USA), Celebrating India (India), Spectral Lines (Romania), Magnapoets (Canada), Blackmail Press (New Zealand), Wordland (UK), among others.
Mykyta Ryzhykh
Mykyta Ryzhykh is a writer from Nova Kakhovka Citу in Ukraine. His publication credits include the journals Dzvin, Tipton Poetry Journal, Stone Poetry Journal, dyst journal, Allegro Poetry Magazine, Alternate Route and Littoral Press. He has also been laureate of the Tyutyunnik literary competition.
Patrick Sagaram
Patrick Sagaram is a teacher. He lives and works in Singapore.
Arunabh Saikia
Arunabh Saikia is an engineering student in India.
Ian Salvaña
Ian Salvaña currently writes from Cateel, Davao Oriental, Philippines. He teaches politics at Ateneo de Davao University and does research for Collective Plus Consultancy and Youth Peace Mission Philippines. He has an MA in Political Science at Central European University in Budapest, Hungary and Vienna, Austria. His poems have also appeared in New Contrast: The South African Literary Journal and Voice & Verse from Hong Kong.
Allen Samsuya
Allen Samsuya's work has appeared in the Philippines Free Press, Sunstar Davao and the Best of Dagmay anthology. He has been a fellow for poetry in the 2009 Davao Writers Workshop, the 18th Iligan National Writers Workshop, and the 50th Silliman University National Writers Workshop.
Sabah Sanhouri
Sabah Sanhouri is a fiction writer and a freelance journalist from Sudan. Her story 'The Isolation' won the El-Tayeb Saleh competition for Youth Short Story Writers and has been made into a short film.
Dominique C. Santos
Dominique C. Santos is currently taking her graduate studies in Creative Writing from the University of the Philippines, Diliman.
Margaret Schumann
Maggie studies anthropology at Yale-NUS College, and this is her first publication.
Leonard Schwartz
Leonard Schwartz is the author of several collections of poetry, including Words Before The Articulate: New and Selected Poems (Talisman House). He is also the author of A Flicker at The Edge Of Things: Essays on Poetics (Spuyten Duvyil) and co-editor of two anthologies: Primary Trouble: An Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry and An Anthology of New (American) Poetry, both from Talisman House. In recent years he has read from his work at universities, conferences, and festivals in Portugal, Turkey, Russia, France, China, and Peru, as well as in the United States. He lives on the Pacific Northwest.
Jess C. Scott
Jess C. Scott is an author/artist/non-conformist whose work has appeared in Word Riot, Maine Coast Journal and The Online Citizen. Her novel Playmates was described by San Francisco Book Review as "a psychological thriller at its best." In 2012, Jess participated in two events discussing sexuality in literature at The Arts House and the Singapore Writers Festival.
Anne Seah
Anne Seah is currently a Master’s student in English Literature at the National University of Singapore.
Diana Seah Kanglin
Diana is a Christian and affirms the five solas of the Reformation. She has an LL.B and a B.A in English Literature and Communications and works in Singapore.
Seah Hui Wen
Seah Hui Wen is admitted to the Singapore Bar and works as a legal counsel. Her memoir titled ‘A Pair of Black Shoes in Hougang’ has been anthologised in Once Upon A Place: 8 Singaporean Memoirs published by Helang Books.
See Wern Hao
See Wern Hao is pursuing Law and Liberal Arts at the National University of Singapore and Yale-NUS College. His works have been featured in journals and anthologies such as Softblow, Apercus Quarterly, Words: Lost and Found and Rollercoasters & Bedsheets.
Leonard Seet
Leonard Seet is the author of the novel Meditation on Space-Time. He also writes for Blogging Authors and the Yahoo! Contributor Network.
Ted Serafin
Ted Serafin is a writer based in Singapore. He is in love with literature, chocolate, his wife and cats (not necessarily in that order).
Oscar T. Serquina, Jr.
Oscar T. Serquina, Jr. is a senior student in the University of the Philippines-Diliman, where he is taking up his Bachelor of Arts degree in Speech Communication. His works have been published in The Philippine Daily Inquirer and the university’s Literary Folio.
Leon Shann
Leon Shann lives in Australia.
Shazanah Hassan
Shazanah Hassan is eighteen.
John Sheng
John Sheng has been living in Sydney for over 20 years. His short-story collection, chengshi zhi lian (Love in the City), was recently published by Otherland
Publishing.
Barrie Sherwood
Barrie Sherwood is assistant professor of English and Coordinator of Creative Writing in the School of Humanities at Nanyang Technological University. His publications include The Pillow Book of Lady Kasa (DC Books, Montreal) and Escape from Amsterdam (Granta, London; St Martin’s Press, New York). His first collection of short fiction will be published by Epigram Books in 2019.
Daren Shiau
Daren Shiau is a novelist, poet and editor. A recipient of National Arts Coucil's Young Artist Award in 2002, his works include Heartland (1999), Peninsular: Archipelagos and Other Islands (2000), and the seminal microfiction collection Velouria (2007). From 2021 to 2023, Daren served as Co-Chair of the Singapore Writers Festival's maiden Advisory Panel. He currently serves as Grant Selection Committee Chair of the inaugural Writers' Grant by the Singapore Book Council which provides financial support for local writers and translators.
Trish Shishikura
Trish Shishikura is currently pursuing her Communication degree in Miriam College. She has been a fellow in poetry for the 52nd Silliman University National Writers Workshop, and her work has appeared in the Philippines Free Press, Philippine Graphic Magazine and Softblow.
Elizabeth Siak
Elizabeth Siak is a Singaporean psychiatrist who is finding her way back to her first loves: reading and writing.
Sameera Siddiqe
Sameera has a Master's Degree in English Literature. She likes gardening, reading, and hot chocolate.
Kevin Simmonds
Kevin Simmonds is a writer and musician from New Orleans presently on a Fulbright in Singapore.
His writing has appeared in various places, including Massachusetts Review, Poetry, and FIELD, and
his music has been performed in the US, Japan, and the Caribbean.
Chris Mooney Singh
Chris Mooney Singh, b. Canberra, 1956, is an poet, writer, editor, Eastern musical heritage revivalist and now Singaporean PR. He has published 3 joint collections and an individual collection of poetry The House of Winter. He edited the Penguin Book of Christmas Poems in 1992. Fish Factory a libretto for contemporary opera was performed at the Adelaide Festival Theatre in 1996. He has also produced two CDs, one of which Indian City is a poetry/music fusion recorded in India and released in Singapore in 1997.
Adeline Siow
Adeline is a copywriter who is slightly obsessed with cats, putting things in order and the word 'and'. She writes to escape boredom and insomnia.
Madeleine Marie Slavick
Madeleine Marie Slavick's books include Round - Poems and Photographs of Asia (1998) and two non-fiction books on China. Her postcardbook COLORing words (with poems translated into Chinese by Zheng Danyi) grew into an exhibition with over 200 artists and writers of all ages in 2002 and then into the e-book colo(u)r.
Her poetry appears in various journals, chapbooks and exhibitions and in three Hong Kong-published anthologies: City Voices - Hong Kong Writing in English, OutLoud - An Anthology of Poetry from OutLoud Readings and Racial Minorities in Hong Kong.
Larry Smith
Larry Smith’s story collections, A Shield of Paris and Floodlands, were published by Adelaide Books. His novella, Patrick Fitzmike and Mike Fitzpatrick, was published by Outpost 19. A Pushcart-nominated writer, he lives in New Jersey.
Ian C. Smith
Ian C Smith’s work has appeared in Australian Book Review, Australian Poetry Journal, Poetry Salzburg Review and Two-Thirds North. His seventh book is wonder sadness madness joy. He lives in the Gippsland Lakes area of Victoria, Australia.
Helaine L. Smith
Helaine L. Smith is an English teacher with a long-time interest in classics and poetry. She has written journal articles on those subjects, and is the author of Masterpieces of Classic Greek Drama, Homer and the Homeric Hymns, and Teaching Particulars: Literary Conversations in Grades 6-12.
Matt Smith
Matt Smith lives in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA, with a wife and five dogs. Matt is also an accomplished juggler.
Chuck D. Smith
Chuck D. Smith is a pop culture journalist and essayist based in Manila. He studied Journalism at the University of Santo Tomas and is now taking his MFA in Creative Writing at the De La Salle University-Manila. He has received prizes for his nonfiction from the Palanca Awards, Iceland Writers Retreat, and Gawad Usteika, among others.
Soh Yong Xiang
Yong Xiang is waiting for university to start. He likes writing, going for walks and eating dim sum.
Ronny Someck
Ronny Someck has published eight volumes of poetry, the latest titled Revolution Drummer. His works have been translated into 31 languages including Arabic, French, Catalan, Albanian, Italian and English (The Fire Stays In Red).
Mira Song
Mira Song completed a Bachelor of Creative Arts at the University of Melbourne. Her poems have been featured at the International Poetry Festival in Prague and Israeli literary magazine Iton 77.
Neha Sood
Neha Sood recently graduated from the University of Southern California with a BA in International Relations. She moved back to Singapore from LA in May and is currently a Marketing Executive with Universitas 21 Global. She loves poetry and enjoys both reading (mostly Neruda) and writing in her spare time.
Soon Ai Ling
Soon Ai Ling is a Singaporean author with ten collections of short stories to her name. These include Green Willows in the Wind, The Distant Scent of the Biluochun, and Soliloquy and Dialogue.
Michael J. Sottak
Michael J. Sottak is a nomad mariner who visits Florida to see his daughters. He lives out of a sea bag. His laptop is his office. His poetry has been published in print and online.
James Stark
A Seattle resident, James Stark has had work published in various literary ezines, such as Southern Ocean Review, SNReview, Wordriot, Istanbul Literary Magazine, and Lochraven review.
Melvin Sterne
Melvin Sterne coordinates the First-Year English Programme at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen campus). He has published two novels, Zara and The Shoeshine Boy, and one collection of short stories, The Number You Have Reached.
William Stuyvesant
William Stuyvesant, who is based in Antwerp, Belgium, had lived, studied and worked in Japan for several decades.
Siyun Su
Siyun Su was born in Singapore and has previously lived in Europe and the United States. She is currently a student in the Creative Writing Masters programme at Lasalle College of the Arts.
Ray Succre
Ray Succre is 29 and currently lives in Coos Bay, Oregon, USA. He is recently married, has just become a father, and loves the south coast. Ray has published in numerous publications in England, Scotland, Canada, Finland, and throughout the United States, as well as in many online magazines.
Tim Suermondt
Tim Suermondt is the author of two full-length collections, Trying to Help the Elephant Man Dance (2007) and Just Beautiful (2010). He has published poems in Poetry, The Georgia Review, Prairie Schooner and Stand Magazine and has poems forthcoming in Gargoyle and Cha among others.
After many years in Queens and Brooklyn, he has moved to Cambridge with his wife, the poet Pui Ying Wong.
Kevin Sullivan
Kevin Sullivan’s latest thriller, The Art of the Assassin (2021), is published by Allison and Busby.
Bryan Swan
Bryan Swan lives in Iowa City.
Erik Ta
Erik Ta was raised in Tustin, California, and attended the University of Southern California. He is an artist with Buffaloes Collaborative.
Christian Tablazon
Christian Tablazon, 24, finished his BA in Creative Writing at the University of the Philippines-Diliman. He is currently teaching English at the University of the Philippines Los Baños while working on his first full-length film.
Brylle B. Tabora
Brylle B. Tabora, a graduate of B.S. Biology from the University of Santo Tomas, is currently taking his MFA in Creative Writing in De La Salle University-Manila. He was a writing fellow for poetry to the UST Summer Creative Writing Workshop (2014) and the 52nd Silliman University National Writers Workshop (2013), and a fellow for fiction to the 12th IYAS Creative Writing Workshop (2012) in Bacolod City. His poems have also been published in the likes of Softblow, Philippines Graphic and Silliman Journal.
Amy Tan
A fan of Jeanette Winterson, Amy Tan explores new ways of writing and builds puzzles during her spare time.
Kaiyi Tan
Kaiyi Tan is a copywriter at a local communications agency. When he's not writing ads, emails and other marketing stuff, he wanders around, sits silently at some quiet place in hopes that he will encounter and write of something beautiful. His short play On Love was staged at Short and Sweet Singapore 2007.
Hazel Tan
Hazel Tan is currently an undergraduate reading English Literature at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. An introvert blessed with an overwhelming capacity to feel, she relies on her intuition more than anything else.
Elizabeth Francine Tan Ming Jing
Elizabeth was one of the commended winners for the Foyle Young Poets Award in 2006 and 2007. She currently works as an emergency doctor and subsists on adrenaline, breathing and coffee. After all these years, she is still trying to make the world a better place.
Paul Tan
Paul Tan has published five volumes of verse. Curious Roads (1994) and Driving into Rain (1998) won prizes at the Singapore Literature Prize competitions. His most recent collection is When the Lights Went Off (2018). Apart from poetry, he has written commentary pieces and the occasional short story.
Adrianna Tan
Adrianna Tan is a poet by night, and student when it occurs to her. In the pursuit of that One Certificate she relies on running, music (heavy metal mostly, jazz, and most forms of rock), the study of the Korean language, rugby and poetry to keep her sane. She guards her gourmet coffee jealously, for there is nothing better than a caffeine fix.
Tricia Tan
Tricia Tan is a poet, medical student and mental health advocate. Her writing has been published in the Straits Times and Acumen, among others. Her debut poetry collection, Patient History, is forthcoming with Ethos Books in 2024. She is a winner of the Golden Point Award 2023, an alumnus of Nanyang Technological University’s Asia Creative Writing Programme, and a finalist for Sing Lit Station’s Manuscript Bootcamp. She is passionate about the intersection of medicine, mental health and poetry.
Tan Wee Cheng
Wee Cheng lives and works in the financial sector. He enjoys travel and has just returned from his 110th country, North Korea.
Tan Kok Meng
Tan Kok Meng is an architect and freelance writer / editor practising in Shanghai.
Jean Tan
Jean Tan is a Lit Masters student who is really only good for pursuits that make no money, such as painting doll faces, drawing dodgy pin-ups, and penning acerbic football punditry.
Jessica Tan
Jessica is a Singapore-based writer who contributes regularly to several local and international publications. She is the Contributing Editor for Forbes Asia in Singapore. Jessica is also working on her first novel. She holds a history honours degree from the National University of Singapore and a master’s degree in journalism at Northwestern University in Chicago.
Michelle Tan
Michelle is a recent Theatre Arts and French Studies graduate from Brown University, and is finally home for good.
Lester Tan
Lester graduated from Nanyang Technological University in 2013 with a degree in English Literature. He is a full-time bibliophile.
Betsy Esther Tan
Betsy Esther Tan lives and works in Singapore. She loves Literature.
Tan Hwee Hwee
Tan Hwee Hwee (also known as Hwee Hwee Tan), had her first book, Foreign Bodies, published by Michael Joseph (a Penguin imprint) in 1997. Her second novel, Mammon Inc., a cutting satire of our times, was released in July 2001. She has won numerous awards, including a New York Times Fellowship for Fiction for her MFA in Creative Writing at New York University.
Inez Tan
Inez Tan is currently pursuing an MFA in poetry at the University of Irvine, California. Her writing has appeared in the anthology A Luxury We Must Afford, Singapore Poetry, and Rattle. She also holds an MFA in fiction from the University of Michigan.
Jolene Tan
Jolene Tan is the author of A Certain Exposure.
Tan Wei Ning
When not stuck in the Now Here as an almost-dropout, Wei Ning can be found in Nowhere having tea with fairies.
Audrey Tan
Audrey Tan is doing a Master of Arts in English at Nanyang Technological University, and is working on a collection of short stories. Her work focuses on the complexities of interpersonal relationships in quotidian settings.
Rebecca Tan Hui Shan
Rebecca Tan Hui Shan is an aspiring journalist currently studying English at the University of Pennsylvania. Her work has appeared in The Straits Times, The Daily Pennsylvanian and The Pennsylvania Gazette. She hopes one day to write something of meaning for the communities she cares about.
Kevin Tan Kwan Wei
Kevin currently contributes articles to Your Commonwealth, a youth blog supported by The Commonwealth Youth Programme. He has served as a volunteer judge for The Queen’s Commonwealth Essay Competition, and is one of the inaugural participants of the Young Critics Mentorship Programme.
Corrie Tan
Corrie Tan graduated from Brown University with a degree in Literary Arts and currently works as an arts journalist in Singapore. She collects stories, travel visas, and ticket stubs.
Marylyn Tan
Marylyn Tan is a queer, delicious, slutty, large-beasted poet/artist who has been performing and disappointing since 2014. She cares about taking pleasure seriously and endangered bodies; her first child, Gaze Back (Ethos Books; Lambda Loser), is both bible and shitpost.
Conan Tan
Conan Tan (he/they) is a young queer writer from Singapore. A member of the writing collective zerosleep, he loves The Good Place and Joni Mitchell. Their poems have been published in, or are forthcoming in, Blue Marble Review, Eunoia Review and The SingPoWriMo Anthology.
Jonathan Tan Ghee Tiong
Jonathan works in the field of international relations, and loves the power to create words and understanding.
Sandra Faith Tan
Sandra is a writer from Singapore. Her poems have appeared in Panorama: The Journal of Travel, Place, and Nature, The Oxonian Review, The Kindling and Eastlit.
Donna Tang
Donna Tang is a former lifestyle journalist and editor currently pursuing an MA Creative Writing. Her poetry and prose have been published in anthologies such as Love Gathers All, SingPoWriMo 2017: The Anthology, Meridian: The APWT Drunken Boat Anthology of New Writing and The Best Asian Short Stories.
Amos Tang
Amos was born in Shanghai in 1980 and currently studies Materials Engineering in Nanyang Technological University. An afficionado of contemporary pop music who has a large collection of CDs and is insatiable in terms of music, he has been following artists like Amon Tobin, Jimi Tenor, Bjork and Cocteau Twins for years now. He has submitted reviews for amazon.com for the past two years.
Tansey Tang
Tansey is currently an undergrad in the best course on earth. She is in love with the sounds, ideas, and violetness of literature, and attempts to be unafraid to say this love.
Ruth Tang
Ruth Tang writes poetry and plays, and has won some minor prizes over the years for the former half of those endeavours. Her other preoccupations include bargain basement books, non-musical theatre, and an awful sense of foreboding about the future.
Eddie Tay
Eddie Tay is the author of the poetry collections Remnants and A Lover's Soliloquy. He teaches literature in a university in Hong Kong.
Janet Tay Hui Ching
Janet Tay is a Kuala Lumpur-based freelance writer and editor. Her stories have appeared in a number of anthologies including New Writing Dundee 4, Readings from Readings, Malaysian Tales: Retold and Remixed and Short Story America Anthology Vol. 1.
Verena Tay
Verena Tay has acted, directed and written for local English-language theatre in Singapore.
Spectre: Stories from Dark to Light is her first collection of short stories. During 2012, she also compiled and edited two other short story anthologies: Balik Kampung and A Monsoon Feast.
Malcolm Tay
Malcolm Tay is a former New York Times Fellow at the American Dance Festival’s Institute for Dance Criticism.
Thomas Lowe Taylor
Thomas Lowe Taylor lives in southwestern Washington State on the Long Beach Peninsula and copublishes Xtant Magazine with Jim
Leftwich. His latest books are A Mandala for her of the earth's whole place
and name and The One, the Same, and the Other. He has work online in Word for
Word, eratio, samsara, Xpressd, MPRSND, tin lustre mobile, 5 trope and
Moria.
Teng Qian Xi
Teng Qian Xi will soon be finishing her final year at Columbia University, where she majors in comparative literature. She has been a Simon Elvin Young Poet of the Year Awards winner in 2000 and in 2001. At present she is freelancing as a writer, publicist and translator. Her first collection will be published later this year.
Sharlene Teo
Sharlene Teo is a student in Anglo-Chinese Junior College. Her current favourite poets are Anne Michaels and Carol Ann Duffy.
Teo Xiao Ting
Teo Xiao Ting plays with art and writes, and is based in Singapore/Taiwan. Her current preoccupations surround alternate forms of book-making and publishing as manifestations of truths-telling. At this point, her practice seeks to integrate various forms of intimacies and daily life through the process of responding to art.
Melody Teo
Melody Teo is probably at the cinema. She was weaned on Singaporean hawker food.
Terry Teo
Terry Teo is currently serving the government as a dental officer. He hopes that he will never forget how to write.
Royston Tester
Royston Tester is a short fiction writer and freelance editor. He has served as jury member for the Commonwealth Fiction Prize, as reader for the Writers’ Union of Canada’s Short Prose Competition for Developing Writers, and as faculty in Humber College’s Creative Writing Program (Toronto). Currently, he is enrolled in the MFA Creative Writing Program at the University of British Columbia. ‘A Beijing Minute’ was written during a series of writing residencies at the Red Gate Gallery (Beijing) between 2007-2011. His second collection of short fiction, Fatty Goes To China (Tightrope Books), will be published in Spring 2012.
Alex Tham
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Tham Yoke Peng
Tham Yoke Peng is a Singaporean living in London.
Bryan Thao Worra
Laotian American poet Bryan Thao Worra has worked extensively in areas of Southeast Asian refugee resettlement and the arts. A freelance literary arts reporter for Asian American Press, he currently lives in Saint Paul.
Shilpa Dikshit Thapliyal
Shilpa is a bilingual poet and Pushcart nominee from Singapore, and the author of the poetry collection Between Sips of Masala Chai. She has been published in various anthologies and journals in Singapore, USA and India.
David Thian Wen Hao
David Thian (b. 1984) is an undergraduate at Duke University. He is a double-major in Economics and English, and is obviously torn between pragmatism and having to live in a cardboard box by the side of a road. In his spare time, he sings with an a cappella group.
Tom Thompson
Tom Thompson lives on Bainbridge Island, near Seattle. He is not permitted by his attorneys to discuss the inspiration for his completely fictional story, and, therefore, he will not do so.
Thow Xin Wei
According to most taxi drivers, Xin Wei is now a teacher.
Jeremy Tiang
Jeremy Tiang is a novelist, playwright and translator from Chinese. His translations include books by Yeng Pway Ngon, You Jin, Wong Yoon Wah, Su Wei-Chen, Yan Ge, and Zhang Yueran among others. His plays include Salesman之死, A Dream of Red Pavilions, and translations of scripts by Chen Si’an, Wei Yu-Chia and others. His short story collection It Never Rains on National Day was shortlisted for the Singapore Literature Prize in 2016, and his novel State of Emergency won the prize in 2018.
Ting Wei Tai
Ting Wei Tai graduated from Raffles Institution and will begin his undergraduate studies at Yale University in 2015. His poetry has previously been featured in the Eunoia Review and Eastlit.
Tjoa Shze Hui
Tjoa Shze Hui is an essayist from Singapore. She has been published in Berfrois, Cha, and the Oxford-Cambridge Mays Anthology. In 2019, she received a notable mention from the Disquiet Literary Prize, and was a finalist for the Iowa Review Awards in non-fiction.
Samantha Toh
Samantha Toh has been published in a variety of online journals. Her plays have been performed at Stanford University’s Original Winter One Acts Festival and at the Poetic Theatre Festival in New York City. She enjoys cycling hands-free in empty suburbs and eating pies barefoot in the grass.
Amos Toh
Amos currently lives and writes in Singapore. He is moving to New York for a year (or more) in August 2011.
Brandon Toh
Brandon Toh is a Chinese-English translator and writer who has been published in Writing the City: Fresh Fiction from Singapore and Fly on the Wall Press.
Norashiqin Toh
Born and raised in Singapore, Norashiqin Toh is currently a foreign policy researcher in Washington, D.C.
Toh Hsien Min
Hsien Min is the founding editor of QLRS, and the author of Iambus (1994), The Enclosure of Love (2001) and Means to an End (2008). His work has also been published in the likes of Atlanta Review, London Magazine, the London Review of Books and Oxford Poets 2013. Hsien Min is a former President of the Oxford University Poetry Society, where he ran his first journal.
Joel M. Toledo
Joel M. Toledo has so far authored three books of poetry (Chiaroscuro, The Long Lost Startle, and Ruins and Reconstructions) and edited Under The Storm: An Anthology of Contemporary Philippine Poetry. He was a previous winner of the Bridport Prize in Dorset, UK, a recipient of the Rockefeller Foundation Creative Arts Residency at the Bellagio Center in Italy, and was the Philippine representative for the 2011 International Writing Program (IWP) at the University of Iowa, USA.
Kristina Tom
Kristina Tom is a former book critic and reporter for The Straits Times, and is currently a lecturer at Nanyang Technological University. While she has spent the bulk of her professional career reviewing writing and teaching writing, she should really spend more time writing writing.
Tim Tomlinson
Tim Tomlinson is the author of Requiem for the Tree Fort I Set on Fire (poetry) and This Is Not Happening to You (short fiction). He’s a co-founder of New York Writers Workshop, and a professor in NYU’s Global Liberal Studies.
Toong Ling Jun
Toong Ling Jun lives and writes in Singapore. In 2010, she received the judges' commendation in the Australia-wide Whitmore Press Poetry Competition.
Denver Ejem Torres
Denver Ejem Torres writes both in his mother tongue, Visayan, and English. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Asia Writes Project, Red River Review (USA), Bisaya Magasin and Under the Storm: An Anthology of Contemporary Philippine Poetry.
Davide Trame
An Italian teacher of English writing poems exclusively in English since 1993, Davide hasbeen published in around one hundred literary magazines since 1999, in the UK, the USA and elsewhere. He lives in Venice, Italy.
Stefani Tran
Stefani Tran is a Creative Writing junior at the Ateneo de Manila University in the Philippines, currently on exchange at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. When she grows up, she wants to be a heroine in a Wes Anderson film.
John Tranter
Australian poet John Tranter has published nearly twenty books, including The Floor of Heaven, At The Florida, Late Night Radio, Ultra and Heart Print, as well as a book of computer-assisted short stories, Different Hands. He co-edited the Penguin Book of Modern Australian Poetry (1991), published in Britain and the US as the Bloodaxe Book of Modern Australian Poetry. He is also the editor of the pace-setting Internet literary magazine Jacket.
Susan Tsang
Susan Tsang works as a journalist.
Tse Hao Guang
Tse Hao Guang is the author of hyperlinkage (2013) and Deeds of Light (2015) (both Math Paper Press). He serves as the critical essays editor of poetry.sg, a home for Singapore poetry.
Tsjeng Zhi Ying
Tsjeng Zhiying was born in 1988. She lives in Singapore, but studies in England. She has been published in Blindspot, and her poetry has been performed in Singapore.
Barnard Turner
Barnard Turner is Associate Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at the National University of Singapore, where he has taught since 1989. He writes mostly on contemporary literature, theatre and film, and travels as and when he can.
Jamie Uy
Jamie Uy is a Filipino-Chinese Singaporean literature student at New York University Abu Dhabi. She is the Co-Founder and former Editor-in-Chief of Parallel Ink, a Commended Foyle Young Poet, and a former speaker at Singapore's All In! Young Writers Festival.
Joshua Uyheng
Josh Uyheng is currently a senior pursuing undergraduate studies in psychology and mathematics at the Ateneo de Manila University. He was selected as a fellow for poetry in the 13th Ateneo National Writers Workshop in 2015 and the 21st Ateneo Heights Writers Workshop in 2016. His work has previously been published in Kritika Kultura, Plural and transit, among others. He hails from Cebu City.
Sooey Valencia
Sooey Valencia received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Literature from the University of Santo Tomas, where she is currently pursuing a Master of Arts degree in Creative Writing. She has won Ustetika Literary Awards for her creative non-fiction and poetry in 2010 and 2011, and she is also a fellow of the 51st Silliman University National Writers Workshop in Dumaguete.
Vyxz Vasquez
Vyxz Vasquez teaches English at the University of the Philippines.
Peter Vaudry-Brown
Peter Vaudry-Brown lives and teaches in Mississippi. Recently, he was a Fulbright Lecturer for one year in Asuncion, Paraguay, where he tranlated Roberto Drummond's collection of stories: The Death of DJ in Paris. He is currently finishing work on a translation of one of Drummond's novels, Hilda Furacão. He has previously published in Third Coast, Segue, the Mississippi Review, and the Georgetown Review.
Ana Vidosavljevic
Ana Vidosavljevic is a Serbian writer living in Indonesia. She has works published or forthcoming in Literary Yard, The Caterpillar, The Curlew and Indiana Voice Journal.
Jerry Vilhotti
Jerry Vilhotti writes short-short stories, storellas, literary précis and tonepoems.
Lyde Sison Villanueva
Lyde Sison Villanueva is an MFA student at De La Salle University in Manila, Philippines. He was a fellow for poetry in the IWP Alumni Writers Workshop and the Silliman University National Writers Workshop.
Esther Vincent Xueming
Esther Vincent Xueming is co-editor of Little Things, a poetry anthology (Ethos Books) and a reader for Frontier Poetry. Her poems may be found in Ghost City Review, Split Rock Review, Eastlit and more.
Pierre Vinclair
Pierre Vinclair has published over 15 books in French, including poetry, novels, essays and translations. He has lived in Singapore, and has been a writer-in-residence at Sing Lit Station. He started to write in English in 2017 and has a poem published in the SPWM2018 anthology.
Silvestar Vrljic
Silvestar Vrljić is a Croatian poet, publisher and coordinator.
Tom Wade
Tom Wade is a retired state government employee. He has been an ombudsman volunteer (advocate for residents) for long-term care facilities for over four years. His essays have been published in Foliate Oak Literary Magazine, Communion and Jenny.
Tamara S. Wagner
Tamara S. Wagner completed her PhD at the University of Cambridge in 2002 and is currently assistant professor of English Literature at the School of Humanities & Social Sciences (HSS) at NTU in Singapore. Her recent publications include Longing: Narratives of Nostalgia in the British Novel, 1740-1890 (2004) and Occidentalism in Novels of Malaysia and Singapore, 1819-2004: Colonial and Postcolonial Financial Straits (2005).
Wahid Al Mamun
Wahid Al Mamun is a Singaporean writer of Bangladeshi origin. His previous works have been published in the 2014, 2015 and 2017 editions of SingPoWriMo: The Anthology, as well as in the murmur house.
Wang Zisi
Currently studying at Cambridge, Wang is a very unproductive writer as writing to him is a pain in the derrière. But since he derives pleasure nonetheless from the activity, he is quite possibly the masochist. His works may be spotted in Lianhe Zaobao once in a purple moon.
Natalie Wang
Natalie Wang writes about cats, ghosts, and womanhood, and maintains that they are all the same thing. She has just released her debut collection of poetry, The Woman Who Turned into a Vending Machine (Math Paper Press), and is currently working on another collection of poems for monstrous women.
Christian Ward
Christian Ward is a UK-based writer who can be recently found in Tipton Poetry Journal, Ginosko Literary Journal, BlueHouse Journal, Red Ogre Review, Discretionary Love and Stone Poetry Journal.
Irian Way
Malaysian-born Irian Way spent some of his best years studying in Singapore, an experience that secretly sharpened the national inferiority complex no-one talks about. He is currently soothing his ego while reading undergraduate law.
Samuel Caleb Wee
Samuel Caleb Wee is a Masters student at NTU and the co-editor of the experimental fiction anthology, this is how you walk on the moon. Until recent intensive therapy, he was afraid of Americans; he is now afraid of therapists.
Alastair Wee
Alastair Wee is a writer of poetry and speculative fiction. His work has been published in missed connections: microfiction from Asia and SAMPAN: The LASALLE Anthology of Creative Writing.
Jason Wee
Jason Wee is currently completing a two-year Masters programme in Fine Arts at Parsons School of Design (New York), specialising in photography and related technologies on a Shell-NAC Scholarship.
Bert Wee
Bert Wee is an urban planner. He graduated in English Literature, and, on a short break from work, decided to start writing.
Jemimah Wei
Jemimah Wei is a Singaporean writer pursuing an MFA in fiction at Columbia University. She is working on her debut novel.
Manfred Weidhorn
Manfred Weidhorn is Emeritus Professor of English at Yeshiva University in New York City. He is the author of over a hundred essays and 13 books, including the well-received The Person of the Millennium: The Unique Impact of Galileo on World History (2005).
Kane Wheatley-Holder
Kane Wheatley-Holder is a writer living in Singapore. He pens television scripts by day and his own stories by night. He enjoys reading, drinking tea and rap music.
Angus Whitehead
Angus Whitehead is an Assistant Professor at the National Institute of Education, Nanyang Techological University. He has published a number of papers, reviews and interviews related to literature in Singapore, and is currently editing collections of short stories by Arthur Yap and local trade unionist and journalist, Gregory Nalpon (1938-1978), the latter to be published in the summer of 2013. He is coeditor of a collection of essays, Re-envisioning Blake (2012).
Ramesh William
With his fetish for chunky specs and trucker caps, Ramesh William is a former football journalist whose work once earned him a nomination for a national award. He presently works as a copywriter.
Ernest Williamson III
Ernest Williamson III is a 32-year-old polymath who has published poetry and visual art in over 180 online and print journals. He holds the B.A. and the M.A. in English/Creative Writing/Literature from the University of Memphis. Ernest is an Adjunct Professor at New Jersey City University, an English Professor at Essex County College, and a Ph.D. Candidate at Seton Hall University in the field of Higher Education.
Benjamin Wolfe
Benjamin Wolfe lives in London and is English, but grew up as an expatriate overseas, spending a peripatetic childhood hopping among a number of different humid, tropical countries. He currently works freelance for very little money and no attention, but one day wishes to be renowned the world over.
Wong Yong Li
Wong Yong Li is a teacher. She spends her free time on solitary pursuits like writing and playing the piano.
Dustin Wong
Dustin Wong's work has been featured in A Luxury We Cannot Afford (Math Paper Press 2015), SingPoWriMo (Math Paper Press, 2016, 2018), The Crust Catalog (Volume 1: Food & Sex), Words: Lost and Found (Coffee Stained Press, 2016), and The Eunoia Review. They are also part of the writing group known as The Atom Collective.
May Ee Wong
May Ee Wong is a graduate student enrolled in the Masters in Literary Studies (Research) programme at the National University of Singapore. Her interests lie in subjects pertaining to English literature, film, critical theory, cultural theory, media, technology and the city.
Agatha Wong Shi Qi
Agatha Wong Shi Qi is a gainfully employed philosophy graduate. When not writing, she divides her time between overanalysing the works of Izumi Shikibu and rose-tinting the memories of her bygone childhood.
Nicholas Wong Yoke Hin
Nicholas was the recipient of the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award (2006)
and the Singapore Young Dramatists Award (2005). He was also Head of Hwa
Chong LitWing.
Wong Wen Pu
Wong Wen Pu conducts research on the writing of Virginia Woolf, T.S Eliot, and W. H. Auden in his day job. When not working, he writes short stories about lighthouses.
Wong Su Ann
Wong Su Ann is a final year student at the Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore. She is the author of Equatorial Sunshine, a book on life, love and loss in our twenties.
Genevieve Wong
Genevieve is valiantly holding onto her childhood dream of publishing more than just school newsletters, reports, academic papers, lesson plans, report book comments, model compositions for her Primary Six pupils and exam papers. She holds a Masters in Education (Curriculum and Teaching) and is equally comfortable with talking to kids more than half her age as she is with conversing with elderly folk more than twice her age.
Jennifer Wong
Jennifer Wong's poems have appeared in journals including Warwick Review, Orbis, TATE ETC, Aesthetica, New Writer, Cha, Iota Poetry and Mascara. Her first poetry collection, Summer Cicadas, was published by Chameleon Press. Originally from Hong Kong, she graduated from Oxford with an English degree and took an MA in creative writing at the University of East Anglia. She now lives in London.
David Wong Hsien Ming
David Wong Hsien Ming was born in Singapore and is currently pursuing honours in Philosophy at the University of Melbourne. He has previously studied under poets Yerra Sugarman and A. Frances Johnson. His poetry has appeared in Ceriph and Eye to the Telescope, and also earned an Honourable Mention in Singapore's Golden Point Award 2011.
Wong Wei Cong
Wong Wei Cong's works have been published in Acumen Journal, Wilderness House Literary Review, Bridge: The Bluffton University Literary Journal, and Sinking City Literary Review. He writes to dwell in the sound of words in their right place, to delight in the association of ideas that arrives in unexpected ways, to make sense of the world by the will of his pen, to plunder the depths of consciousness to salvage what is human again.
Wong Yunjie
Wong Yunjie discovered a love for conceptual brilliance and lilt in writing as a student at the National University of Singapore and its University Scholars Programme. He majored in Political Science.
Cyril Wong
Cyril Wong is the Singapore Literature Prize-winning author of Unmarked Treasure (Firstfruits 2004), Tilting Our Plates to Catch the Light (Firstfruits 2007) and a collection of short-stories, Let Me Tell You Something About That Night (Transit Lounge 2009).
Kevin Nicholas Wong
Kevin Nicholas Wong has always been fascinated with storytelling and its power to convey messages through various mediums, working as a film producer and recently completing his Master in Creative Writing at LASALLE College of the Arts.
Zioedy Wong
Zioedy is a fresh grad from Nanyang Technological University with a love for storytelling. She also likes binge-watching sci-fi films, cracking the spines of paperbacks, and collecting lint balls on old clothes.
Jena Woodhouse
Jena Woodhouse is the Queensland-based author, translator, and co-compiler of nine book and chapbook publications, the most recent being Green Dance: Tamborine Mountain Poems (Calanthe Press 2018), and The Book of Lost Addresses: A retrospective (Picaro Poets 2020).
Kirby Wright
Kirby Wright was born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii. Before the City, Kirby's first book of poetry, took First Place at the 2004 San Diego Book Awards. Punahou Blues, his coming of age novel set in Honolulu, will be
released by Lemon Shark Press in Summer 2005.
Wu Xueting
Wu Xueting is an English Literature graduate from the National University of Singapore, and currently an editor at Cengage Learning Asia.
Kulpreet Yadav
Kulpreet Yadav is an Indian novelist and a short fiction writer based at New Delhi, India. His work has been featured in literary magazines in India and elsewhere. He is curious about people and places, mostly when their interdependence is challenged by time.
Jerrold Yam
Jerrold Yam is a poet and corporate lawyer. He is the author of three poetry collections, Intruder (Ethos Books, 2014 and 2024), Scattered Vertebrae (Math Paper Press, 2013) and Chasing Curtained Suns (Math Paper Press, 2012). He has received poetry awards from the British Council, National University of Singapore and Poetry Book Society, and has been featured at the London Book Fair, Ledbury Poetry Festival, Poetry Festival Singapore and Singapore Writers Festival.
Daryl Qilin Yam
Daryl Qilin Yam is a writer of prose and poetry, and a graduate of the University of Warwick's Warwick Writing Programme. He is one of the series editors of the 'SingPoWriMo' anthology series by Math Paper Press. His first novel, Kappa Quartet, will be published by Epigram Books in late 2016.
Timothy Yam
Timothy Yam is an educator whose fiction has been published in various online journals and print anthologies. He was the second runner-up of the National Arts Council’s Golden Point Award (English Short Story) in 2017. His favourite flavour of ice-cream is mint chocolate.
Timothy Yang
Timothy Yang won the National Arts Council Golden Point Award in 2005, studied Medicine in the University of New South Wales and moved to Hong Kong where he now practices as a doctor and moonlights as a writer.
Arthur Yap
Arthur Yap (1943-2006) is widely acknowledged as one of Singapore's top poets.
His first collection of poems, Only Lines, was published in 1971, for which he
received the National Book Development Council of Singapore's first award
for poetry. His subsequent collections of verse included man
snake apple and other poems and commonplace. In 1983, he was awarded the prestigious
Southeast Asia Write Award in Bangkok and the Cultural Medallion for
Literature in Singapore. He was also a prolific painter. His selected, the space of city trees: selected poems, was released by Skoob Books in 2000.
Angeline Yap
Angeline Yap, wife, lawyer, writer, mother of three, started writing during her Convent schooldays and has had her poems translated into Mandarin and Tamil, as well as set to music and sung by choirs in Singapore and internationally. She has contributed poems to various anthologies since the 1970s, including, more recently, More Than Half The Sky, Memories & Desires, No Other City and Love Gathers All.
Yap Shi Quan
Yap Shi Quan is an editor based in Singapore. He writes short stories and non-fiction in his free time, with works in Singapore Unbound and UEA's Undergraduate Creative Anthology, Underscore.
Stephanie Ye
Stephanie Ye’s writing has been staged as a dance performance in New York City, translated into German for an art exhibition in Berlin, and used as a GCE ‘O’-level examination text in Singapore. Her short-story chapbook, The Billion Shop, was published in 2012, and she edited the fiction anthology From the Belly of The Cat in 2013. A graduate of the MA in Creative Writing programme at the University of East Anglia, she is also an honorary fellow in writing of the University of Iowa. She lives in London and, when not writing for humans, talks to computers in her day job as a software developer.
Gerard Yee
Gerard Yee teaches General Paper and attempts to do some serious reading between his marking.
Yeo Wei Wei
Yeo Wei Wei is a writer and translator based in Singapore.
Ryan Yeo
Ryan Yeo is a philosophy major from Yale-NUS College. Their writing has been published in poetry anthologies like Contour: A Lyric Cartography of Singapore, SG Poems 2017–2018 and others. Besides writing, Ryan also loves doing improv theatre, playing Dungeons & Dragons, and playing with dogs.
Christian Yeo
Christian is a final-year undergraduate who wishes he did more theatre and wrote more poetry. His work has also been featured in Ethos Books' This is not a safety barrier, Cambridge zine 698's Redefinitions, and the JFA Human Rights Journal.
Robert Yeo
Robert is a playwright, whose works include Are You There, Singapore? (1974), One Year Back Home (1980) and The Adventures of Holden Heng (1986). He has also published poetry, with his selected, Leaving Home, Mother, appearing in 1999.
Yeo Yen Ping
Yeo Yen Ping is a public librarian.
Mark Yeow
A former journalist, Mark has published work as diverse as features on Newater to short stories about unemployed hawks. He currently resides in Singapore after spending most of his life in Sydney.
Yeow Kai Chai
A Master of Arts graduate in English Literature from the National University of Singapore, Yeow Kai Chai is Assistant to Editor and music reviewer in Life!, The Straits Times. He won first prize in poetry for two years at the NUS Literary Society Competition. His debut book, Secret Manta, was published in 2001 and was adapted from a collection shortlisted for the 1995 Singapore Literature Prize. He is currently an editor of QLRS.
Andrea Yew
Andrea Yew is one of the participants in the Young Critics Mentorship Programme 2016.
Yong Shu Hoong
Yong Shu Hoong is the author of five poetry collections, including Frottage (2005) and The Viewing Party (2013), which both won the Singapore Literature Prize. His poems and short stories have also been published in literary venues such as the Asia Literary Review, Language for a New Century (W.W. Norton, 2008) and Balik Kampung. He lives in Singapore, where he works as a freelance writer and teaches part-time.
Yong Mang Kang
Yong Mang Kang is a Singaporean living in the USA.
Debbie Yong
Debbie Yong, 21, is a born-and-bred Singaporean who is now an English Literature major at the University of Pennsylvania in the States. She is an aspiring writer, a budding photographer and a poor victim of the travel bug.
Vincen Gregory Yu
Vincen Gregory Yu obtained his Doctor of Medicine from the University of the Philippines-Philippine General Hospital under the prestigious Intarmed program. He is a contributing theater reviewer for the Philippine Daily Inquirer.
Daniel Yu
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Changming Yuan
Changming Yuan grew up in central rural China, authored three books before moving to Canada, holds a PhD in English, and currently teaches
writing in Vancouver. Yuan's poems have appeared or will be appearing in Exquisite Corpse, Istanbul Literary Review, Literary
Review of Canada, London Magazine, Salzburg Review, Southern Ocean
Review, Orbis and more than 150 other
literary journals. His first collection Chansons of a Chinaman is forthcoming from Leaf Garden Press in September 2009.
Clement Yue
Based in Singapore, Clement Yue is currently a communications major struggling to finish his final year in Nanyang Technological University. His poetry has been published in the anthology, Seven Hundred Lines: A Crown of Found//Fount Sonnets (Squircle Line Press, 2019).
Grey Yuen Yew Kuen
No information available.
Yuen Sin
Yuen Sin is currently reading English and Related Literature at the University of York. She likes plays, travelling and sporadic encounters with strangers.
Zia Zaman
Born in Karachi, Zia has lived in Montreal, Boston, London, San Francisco and Singapore. Zia holds a Bachelor's and Master's of Science from MIT and an MBA from Stanford. In his business career, he has worked as an engineer, a management consultant, a mergers and acquisitions specialist and a venture capitalist. Zia is the author of the travel book Losing Oneself in Remote Asia. His work has also appeared in Chance, Rivative, Undershorts, Cherrybleeds, Novelists Abroad, Hackwriters and other litzines.
Therry Zee
Therry Zee is the pen name of one of Singapore's shyest and most prolific limners
Michael Zeller
Michael Zeller is the author of Follen's Heritage: A German (Hi)Story (1986), The Man Who Comes Again (1990), Café Europa (1994), and Kropp: A Revenge (1996), as well as many short stories, essays, and poems. He has been writer-in-residence at New York University and artist-in-residence at the University of Erfurt/Thuringia.
Bianca Zen
Bianca Zen writes for Ad Planet Group and ISH Magazine. She has recently won an award by SPH for the best advertising campaign for April 2005.
Zhang Jieqiang
Jieqiang is currently an MA candidate with the Division of English at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He divides his time between living in Singapore and in his head.
Zhang Ruihe
Ruihe has published across creative nonfiction, poetry and short fiction. A former QLRS Essays editor, she is the recipient of the 2013 Golden Point Award for English poetry, and co-editor of In Transit: An Anthology from Singapore on Airports and Air Travel. Her lyric essay, "What I Hear is the Murmur", was nominated by Hinterland magazine for the 2023 Pushcart Prize. She holds an MFA in Writing from the University of Pittsburgh. Ruihe has also worked in education, publishing and the non-profit sector.
Hantian Zhang
Hantian Zhang grew up in China and is now living in San Francisco. His day job is data science.
Zhao Xingyu
Zhao Xingyu is a student at NTU. He is reading English.
Zhu Yuan Laura
Zhu Yuan Laura is an undergraduate pursuing sociology and creative writing at the Nanyang Technological University. Outside of her studies, she is a photography enthusiast and occasionally decent pun-maker.
Zhuang Yisa
Zhuang Yisa lives in Singapore. His poetry has been published or forthcoming in Yuan Yang (Hong Kong), ditch (Canada), The Salt River Review, Eight Octaves, Houston Literary Review, Red River Review, and SubtleTea, amongst others. He also reviews for The Substation Magazine, an online arts journal based in Singapore.
Zou Tangming
Zou Tangming is currently in his fourth year of study at the Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, NTU. He enjoys the passing of time in between rhymes.
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