Constance Singam is a writer and civil society activist. Constance has led women’s organisations, co-founded civil society groups, been a columnist in national publications, and co-edited several books. Her nonfiction works include Re-Presenting Singapore Women (2004) and The Art of Advocacy in Singapore (2017). She has written two memoirs including Never Leave Town Without Chilli Sauce (2016), and three children’s books including Porter the Adventurous Otter (2021). She was inducted in the Singapore Women’s Hall of Fame in 2015.

Melissa De Silva is the author of the cross-genre memoir ‘Others’ is Not a Race, which won the Singapore Literature Prize 2018 (Creative Nonfiction). Her writing explores issues of identity and culture through food, memory and forgetting. Her fiction has been published in Cha: An Asian Literary Journal, Best New Singaporean Short Stories Vol. 3, and LONTAR: The Journal of Southeast Asian Speculative Fiction. She is currently working on a speculative climate fiction novel.

Daryl Lim Wei Jie is a poet, writer and literary critic from Singapore. His first book of poetry is Book of Changes (2016). He is the co-editor of Food Republic: A Singapore Literary Banquet (2020), the first definitive anthology of literary food writing from Singapore. His poems won him the Golden Point Award in English Poetry in 2015, awarded by the National Arts Council. His latest book of poetry is Anything but Human, published by Landmark Books in 2021.

After nearly 30 years in advertising and the hospitality industry, Mahita wrote her first book, Praying to the Goddess of Mercy, A Memoir of Mood Swings. She has since written two novels and another non-fiction book. Food plays a significant role in most of her books. She is an avid reader, and loves cooking and baking.