Yeow Kai Chai has three poetry collections, Secret Manta (2001); Pretend I’m Not Here (2006); and One to the Dark Tower Comes (2020), which won the 2022 Singapore Literature Prize. A co-editor of Quarterly Literary Review Singapore, he was Festival Director of Singapore Writers Festival (2015-2018).

Clara Chow is author of story collections Dream Storeys (Ethos), Modern Myths (Math Paper Press) and Not Great, But At Least Something (Hermit Press).

Jerome Lim’s writing has been published in the Journal of Modern Literature, QLRS, and The Mays, among others.

Anitha Devi Pillai (PhD) is an applied linguist, author, and poet.

ila’s research centres on peripheral narratives surrounding identity, space, and histories that lie hidden, particularly looking at kinships with land and water bodies.

Samuel Lee’s most recent poetry collection, A Field Guide to Supermarkets in Singapore (Math Paper Press, 2016), was the winner of the 2018 Singapore Literature Prize for Poetry in English. He works across art history and literature, with a special interest in visual cultures of the 19th century.

Learn more about the author at samuellee.space and find him on Instagram at @uberfunkyperson.

Anne Lee Tzu Pheng has won many awards, international and local, for her poetry, including the Singapore Cultural Medallion (Literature).

Dr Sa’eda Buang is Senior Lecturer in the Asian Languages and Cultures academic group, National Institute of Education (NIE), Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. 

Divya lives in Singapore with two kids and a husband. She grew up in Neyveli, a small mining town in India and moved to Singapore to study when she was seventeen.

Yolanda Yu is a poet, fiction writer, and multi-time winner of the Golden Point Award. Her book, Neighbor’s Luck, a collection of short stories, was shortlisted for the Singapore Literature Award 2020.