ArunDitha*
ArunDitha (born Deborah Arunditha Emmanuel) is a writer, performer, and four-time TEDx speaker. She has published two books, When I Giggle In My Sleep (Red Wheelbarrow Books, 2015) and Rebel Rites (Cosmic Grasshopper Press, 2016) and is frontwoman of the bands Wobology and The Ditha Project. ArunDitha has toured internationally, performing for audiences in places like Kathmandu, Bali, London, Berlin and Melbourne.
Alan BAY
Alan is a comic artist and illustrator that enjoys spreading happiness through his drawings. His latest works include 'Once Upon a Singapore... Traders' and 'Sacred Guardians'.
His art has appeared in comic books, cartoons and an extensive list of video game projects including Assassin's Creeds: Brotherhood, TMNT, Prince of Persia: Forgotten Sands, Ghost Recon and Romance of Three Kingdoms Online.
Jennifer Anne CHAMPION*
Jennifer Anne Champion is a writer and performance poet from Singapore. She graduated with a BA Honours Degree in English Literature from NUS with a minor in Communications and New Media in 2013. Since then she has taught and performed poetry in local and international schools, and authored two collections of poetry. She is featured in numerous local and foreign anthologies and is co-founder/ Multimedia Editor of the digital archive poetry.sg.
Felix CHEONG*
Felix Cheong is the author of 28 books across different genres, from poetry to fiction, from children’s picture books to graphic novels. He has also written two opera librettos and his works have been widely anthologised and nominated for the prestigious Frank O’Connor Award and the Singapore Literature Prize.
Conferred the Young Artist Award in 2000 by the National Arts Council, Felix has been invited to writers festivals all over the world, such as Edinburgh, Austin, Sydney and Christchurch. He holds a masters in creative writing and is currently a university adjunct lecturer.
Josephine CHIA*
Josephine Chia is an internationally- published, award-winning author with twelve books in fiction and non-fiction, adult’s as well as children’s. She had taught Creative Writing in UK and now here. She gives talks on her Peranakan heritage and kampong and runs workshops for schools, NAC, NLB, SBC and was mentor on MOE’s Creative Arts Programme and NAC’s MAP Programme.
Jonathan CHAN
Jonathan Chan Jonathan Chan is a writer and editor. 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), which was named a 2022 Best Book of the Year by Suspect. He serves as Managing Editor of poetry.sg. His poetry and essays have appeared in Quarterly Literary Review Singapore, Minarets, Gulf Coast, Magma, The Tiger Moth Review, Inheritance Magazine and Asymptote Journal. Some of his poems have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net, and the Hawker Prize for Southeast Asian Poetry.
Audrey CHIN
Audrey Chin is the author of two novels and a short story collection. Her short fiction and social commentary has also appeared in literary journals in the USA and Singapore. She has been shortlisted thrice for the Singapore Literature Prize.
Amanda CHONG
Amanda Chong is a lawyer trained in Cambridge and Harvard, a winner of the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award, and the co-founder of the literacy non-profit ReadAble. She is interested in exploring themes of gender and power in both her poetry and academic writing; her first collection of poetry, Professions, was published in 2016 under Math Paper Press's Ten Year Series imprint and shortlisted for the 2018 Singapore Literature Prize.
Clara CHOW
Clara Chow is the author of the short-story collection, Dream Storeys (Ethos, 2016). Her fiction has appeared in Asia Literary Review, CHA: An Asian Literary Journal, Drunken Boat, QLRS and The Columbia Journal. She also contributes to The Straits Times and South China Morning Post. In 2015, she co-founded the art and literary journal WeAreAWebsite.com.
Aydeel DJOEHARIE
Apart from writing, directing and producing several broadcast and digital content throughout his tenure as founding partner of tokuAsia Pictures, Aydeel Djoeharie is also the author of the local superhero comic book Sacred Guardians, published by Asiapac Books.
Stephanie DOGFOOT
Stephanie Dogfoot is the author of a poetry collection, Roadkill for Beginners (Math Paper Press 2019) and her poems have been published in QLRS, Asia Literary Review, and The Suburban Review. She has won national poetry slam championships in the UK (2012) and Singapore (2010) and represented these countries in international poetry slams. She currently hosts a poetry night called Spoke & Bird Poetry.
Adeline FOO
Adeline Foo is a bestselling author, with 28 published books, three children’s and young adult TV series, and a fourth TV series in the works, a historical drama currently in development. A MFA graduate of New York University’s film school, Tisch Asia School of the Arts, Adeline completed her studies on a Media Development Authority scholarship in 2011.
Jon GRESHAM*
Jon Gresham is the author of the short story collection, We Rose Up Slowly (Math Paper Press, 2015) and a photographer based in Singapore. He is also a co-founder of Sing Lit Station, joint leader of the Book a Writer programme and leader of the Writing the City creative writing workshops.
Judith HUANG
Judith Huang is the author of the Epigram Books Fiction Prize shortlisted novel Sofia and The Utopia Machine. Winner of the Foyle Young Poet of the Year in 2001, 2003 and 2004, she holds a A.B. in English from Harvard University. Her work has been published in Prairie Schooner, Asia Literary Review, QLRS, Cha and anthologies in Singapore and abroad.
Neil HUMPHREYS
Neil Humphreys is Singapore's best-selling author with 17 titles to his name. A popular and humorous writer, Humphreys has contributed dozens of short stories for the Ministry of Education and Singapore's National Parks Board to promote environmental issues. He also writes extensively for newspapers, magazines and websites in Singapore, Malaysia, Japan, Australia, and the UK.
Joshua IP
Joshua Ip is a writer, editor and literary organiser. He has published six-ish volumes of poetry, is the recipient of the Singapore Literature Prize and the Golden Point Award, and the co-editor of multiple anthologies of Singapore poetry. He is also a founding director for many initiatives in the local literary scene, including the non-profit charity Sing Lit Station.
Danny JALIL
Danny Jalil majored in Multimedia Arts and studied Creative Writing and Screenwriting at LaSalle-SIA College of the Arts. His works include the young adult novel The Machine Boy (Straits Times Press), and the graphic novels Lt. Adnan and the Fallen Regiment, and Elizabeth Choy: Her Story (with artist Zaki Ragman, published by Asiapac Books), and he is currently at work on his next novel.
Desmond KON Zhicheng-Mingdé
Desmond Kon (b. 1971) is the author of 18 books, spanning fiction, poetry, and nonfiction. The former journalist has edited over 25 titles. Desmond trained in publishing at Stanford University, and received his world religions masters from Harvard University and creative writing masters from the University of Notre Dame. He is the recipient of the IBPA Benjamin Franklin Award, Singapore Literature Prize, two Independent Publisher Book Awards, two Illumination Christian Book Awards, and five Living Now Book Awards, among other accolades. He has taught writing for over two decades.
Theophilus KWEK
Theophilus Kwek has published four volumes of poetry. He serves as Co-Editor of Oxford Poetry, and together with Joshua Ip and Tse Hao Guang, was also Co-Editor of UnFree Verse. His poems, translations, essays and reviews have appeared in The Guardian, The London Magazine, The Irish Examiner, the Asia Literary Review, and Berfrois.
Laura Jane LEE
Laura Jane Lee is a Hong Kong-born, Singapore-based poet. She is a winner of the Sir Roger Newdigate Prize and her work has been featured in The Straits Times, Tatler Asia, Poetry London, Ambit, and the Poetry International Festival. Her most recent pamphlet flinch & air was published with Out-Spoken Press in 2021.
Sonny LIEW
Sonny Liew is the award-winning author of The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye, a New York Times and Amazon bestseller, and the first graphic novel to win the Singapore Literature Prize. He has also been nominated for multiple Eisner Awards and is a recipient of the Young Artist Award.
Daryl LIM Wei Jie
Daryl Lim Wei Jie is a poet and critic, who studied history with a focus on intellectual history and political thought. His first collection of poetry, A Book of Changes, was published by Math Paper Press in 2016, under the Ten Year Series imprint. His work won him the Golden Point Award in English Poetry in 2015.
LOH Guan Liang*
Loh Guan Liang is the author of two poetry collections: Bitter Punch (Ethos Books, 2016) and Transparent Strangers (Math Paper Press, 2012). He also co-translated Art Studio (Math Paper Press, 2014), a Chinese novel by Singapore Cultural Medallion recipient Yeng Pway Ngon.
A.J. LOW*
A.J. Low is the husband-and-wife writing team of Adan Jimenez and Felicia Low-Jimenez. They write the best-selling Sherlock Sam series of children’s books. Their books have won the Singapore Book Awards for Best Young Persons Title 2020, the International Schools Libraries Network’s Red Dot Award 2013-2014, and the Popular Readers’ Choice Award numerous times.
During the day, Felicia is a comics publisher and Adan is a freelance writer, editor, and translator. You can reach them on Instagram at @aj_low_writers!
Jenny MAK*
Jenny Mak is a writer and educator. Her work has been published in Entropy magazine, Read Me Anthology, and shortlisted in the 2012 InkTears Short Story Competition. She has a PhD in English Literature from the University of Warwick. She has taught English Literature and Creative Writing at LASALLE College of the Arts, Nanyang Technological University, Raffles Girls’ School, and University of Warwick.
NABILAH Said
A playwright, poet and arts writer, Nabilah Said’s play, Inside Voices, was staged in London in 2019 and published by Nick Hern Books. She presented two plays at the M1 Singapore Fringe Festival 2019, including festival highlight ANGKAT: A Definitive, Alternative, Reclaimed Narrative of a Native. Formerly an arts correspondent with The Straits Times, Nabilah writes reviews and features for ArtsEquator and Esplanade.com, and her poems have been published by Math Paper Press and Ethos Books.
Marc NAIR*
Marc Nair is a poet and photographer from Singapore. He is a recipient of the 2016 Young Artist Award. He has published seven volumes of poetry and has performed spoken word internationally for over ten years.
Pooja NANSI*
Pooja Nansi is a poet, performer, and experienced educator. She was a recipient of the Young Artist Award in 2016, Singapore's highest accolade for arts practitioners under 35, and is also Singapore's inaugural Youth Poet Ambassador.
NG Yi-Sheng
Ng Yi-Sheng is a writer of poetry, fiction, non-fiction and theatre, with a keen interest in the forgotten histories and mythologies of Southeast Asia. His books include the fantasy/science fiction short story collection Lion City and the poetry collection last boy (both winners of the Singapore Literature Prize), as well as A Book of Hims, Loud Poems for a Very Obliging Audience and Black Waters, Pink Sands. He recently served as editor of A Mosque in the Jungle: Classic Ghost Stories by Othman Wok. He tweets and Instagrams at @yishkabob.
NG Ziqin
Ng Ziqin is the author of Every School a Good School and the fiction editor of Perks of Being Dumped, a literary anthology about the unexpected upsides of heartbreak. Her debut novel, Every School a Good School, was shortlisted for the Epigram Books Fiction Prize in 2022 and longlisted for the Alan Chan Spirit of Singapore Book Prize in 2023. She is in her final year of undergraduate law studies at the National University of Singapore.
NIRROSETTE
Nirrosette has written short stories and poetry for the local Malay newspaper, Berita Harian, ever since she was ten. She published her first young adult romance novel when she was in JC. Now at the age of 29, Nirrosette has published more than 15 titles under her belt. She is also a co-founder of Manés Wordworks, a publishing house that sells chapters of love, wrapped specially in emotions with a touch of ever after, where applicable.
Nuraliah NORASID
Nuraliah Norasid is a writer and educator in Singapore. Her novel, The Gatekeeper, won the Epigram Books Fiction Prize in 2016 and the Best Fiction Title for the Singapore Book Awards in 2018. It was also shortlisted for the Singapore Literature Prize (2018). In that same year, Nuraliah received the Most Promising Young Women Writer from IndiaSe Magazine.
Alvin PANG*
Alvin Pang is Singapore's 2005 Young Artist of the Year for Literature, and was conferred the Singapore Youth Award (Arts and Culture) in 2007. Listed in the Oxford Companion to Modern Poetry in English, he is active in festivals and publications worldwide. Author of over a dozen books, his writing has been translated into more than twenty languages.
Cheyenne Alexandria PHILLIPS
Cheyenne Alexandria Phillips is a writer, performer and Associate Artist with Checkpoint Theatre. Her writing and performance credits include Vulnerable (Checkpoint Theatre, 2021), A Grand Design (Checkpoint Theatre 2020), In The Twine (SWF 2018) and For the Record (C42 2017). Her published works can be found in QLRS, Counter: Lyrical Cartography of Singapore (2019) and Who are you my Country? (2018)
Charlene SHEPHERDSON
Charlene Shepherdson is an interdisciplinary writer based in Singapore who curates experiences using visual text, interactive narratives and historical archives. The breadth of their practice spans poetry, creative non-fiction, visual art installations and social sculptures with a deep focus on the ideas that exist in the in-betweens. They were also a founding member of spoken word troupe Party Action People, the performance writing group Ministry of Noise, and the literary-visual art collective spacer.gif.
Tina SIM
Tina Sim writes about what life used to be like in Singapore. She is the author of Once Upon A Singapore… Traders, which is on MOE and NLB’s recommended reading lists. Her latest book, Our Singapore River, takes readers back to a day on Singapore River when it was busy, lively and noisy, smelly too.
SUFFIAN Hakim
Described by The Straits Times as “undoubtedly one of the most whimsical, creative and unpretentious young voices in Singapore literature”, Suffian Hakim is the author of Harris bin Potter and the Stoned Philosopher and The Minorities. Before finding success as an author, Hakim lent his ideas to television shows such as Random Island and The Noose, local publications Esquire and August Man, and brands such as StarHub and Johnnie Walker.
Jollin TAN
Jollin Tan is a writer and poet. Her first two poetry collections, Bursting Seams and Derivative Faith, are published by Math Paper Press. Jollin’s work can also be found in anthologies such as Body Boundaries, SingPoWriMo The Anthology, Balik Kampung 3B: Some East, More West. Her poetry has also been curated for Prairie Schooner and the Singapore Writer’s Festival.
Joseph TAN
A screenwriter and director with over 15 years of experience, Joseph Tan has worked in both fiction and non-fiction, and across a wide range of genres, from crime procedurals and historical dramas, to sitcoms, family dramas and even animation. In recent years, he has served as the co-head writer for several critically-acclaimed, award-winning TV series such as This Land is Mine and 128 Circle. He also teaches screenwriting and directing at several tertiary institutions in Singapore while also pursuing his Masters in Creative Writing.
Verena TAY
Verena Tay has acted, directed and written for local English-language theatre in Singapore, working for companies such as The Necessary Stage, ACTION Theatre, TheatreWorks and Practice Theatre for over twenty-five years. Two collections of her short stories and four collections of her plays have been published, including The Car and Other Plays (2016) which is on the Ministry of Education’s list of recommended texts for the Lower Secondary English Literature curriculum.
Rachel TEY
Rachel Tey is the author of the middle-grade series Tea in Pajamas, three short stories, and an upcoming novel. She is the co-founder and academic director of an L&D academy, and part-time lecturer at the Nanyang Technological University. Rachel regularly conducts creative writing workshops for secondary schools and junior colleges, and contributes opinion pieces to The Straits Times and Channel NewsAsia. She holds an MA in English from the Nanyang Technological University and a BA in Sociology and European Studies (French) from the National University of Singapore.
TSE Hao Guang
Tse Hao Guang is the author of Deeds of Light (Math Paper Press, 2015), which was shortlisted for the 2016 Singapore Literature Prize. He co-edits the literary journal OF ZOOS, the poetry anthology UnFree Verse (Ethos Books, 2017), and poetry.sg. He is a 2016 fellow of the University of Iowa's International Writing Program.
Pierre VINCLAIR*
Pierre Vinclair is the author of over 12 published books, he is also a translator of English and Chinese ancient poetry. He was awarded the Villa Kujoyama in Literature in 2010 and the Heredia Prize from Académie Française in 2014. He is also Chief Editor of Catastrophes, a monthly online poetry magazine, and has a PhD in Philosophy of Literature.
Natalie WANG
Natalie Wang is the author of the poetry collection ‘The Woman Who Turned Into a Vending Machine’ (Math Paper Press, 2018). She has been published in numerous local and international anthologies and literary journals, including Cordite Poetry, Fairy Tale Review, Strange Horizons, and Quarterly Literary Review Singapore.
Cyril WONG
Cyril Wong is the Singapore Literature Prize-winning author of over ten poetry publications, two short-story collections and a novel. He received the 2005 Young Artist Award from the National Arts Council and completed his doctoral degree in English Literature from the National University of Singapore in 2012.
Kevin Martens WONG
A creole/indigenous speculative fiction writer, linguist and teacher, Kevin Martens Wong is the Kabesa / leader of the Kristang community in Singapore and Southeast Asia, the Merlionsman of the Republic of Singapore, and the Makaravedra or Dragon Reborn of the Holocene in the Kristang cosmological cycle, the Roda Mundansa. His first novel, Altered Straits (2017), was longlisted for the inaugural Epigram Books Fiction Prize, and he publishes new work in English and Kristang independently at tigrisachang.substack.com
Eva WONG NAVA*
Eva Wong Nava is the author of Open - A Boy’s Wayang Adventure (Ethos Books, 2018); the children’s book encourages young readers to be more compassionate to people on the autism spectrum. An art historian, educator and writer, she is also the founder of CarpeArte Journal.
Daryl Qilin YAM
Daryl Qilin Yam (b. 1991) is a writer, editor and arts organiser from Singapore. He is the author of the novella Shantih Shantih Shantih (2021), shortlisted for the 2022 Singapore Literature Prize, and the novel Lovelier, Lonelier (2021), the Singapore nominee for the 2023 International Dublin Literary Award.
JY YANG
JY Yang is the author of the Tensorate series of novellas from Tor.com Publishing, which includes The Red Threads of Fortune, The Black Tides of Heaven, and two additional titles slated for 2018 and 2019. Their short fiction has been published in multiple award-winning venues.
Vivien YAP
Vivien Yap is a singer-songwriter and writer from Singapore with over a million streams on digital streaming platforms. Her debut EP, Fables, was released in 2019 with an exclusive physical release in Japan. To date, she has released over 4 EPs, along with international collaborations with Japanese and Korean artists.
Robert YEO*
Robert Yeo has taught for more than three decades in the fields of teacher education and creative writing, and has been with the Singapore Management University for more than 15 years. He is widely published in poetry, drama, essays and life writing, and is particularly renowned for his trilogy of plays, The Singapore Trilogy. He has edited many anthologies of plays and short stories for general reading and schools.
YEO Wei Wei*
Yeo Wei Wei is a writer and translator. She received her PhD in Literature from the University of Cambridge. She has worked as a lecturer and tutor in Literature and Creative Writing for NUS, NTU and MOE. She was head of English at SOTA from 2007 to 2010. At National Gallery Singapore she was head of publications and the resource centre. Her collection of short stories These Foolish Things & Other Stories was published in 2015.
ZHANG Ruihe*
Zhang Ruihe works in education and moonlights as a writer and editor. She received the Golden Point Award for English Poetry in 2013, served as essays editor for QLRS from 2005 to 2009, and is also co-editor of In Transit: An Anthology from Singapore on Airports and Air Travel (Math Paper Press, 2016).
Notes
* Writers marked with an asterisk are certified teachers and/or have attended the NIEI Essentials of Teaching and Learning Module.
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