Australian by birth and Montenegrin origin, Pavle Radonic’s eight years living in SE Asia provided unexpected stimulus. Previous work has appeared in a range of literary journals and magazines, most recently Panoply, Aletheia Literary Review, Nine Cloud Journal, Impermanent Earth, and New World Writing.
Ivan David Ng (here and here) is an artist-educator raised in the city-state of Singapore. Approaching various art forms with a painter’s sensibilities, he is interested in the provenance of things and the ideas of longing. He received his BFA in Painting from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2016, Summa Cum Laude. He has exhibited throughout the United States as well as in Singapore and South Korea. He received the Gold Award (Established Artist Category) in the 39th UOB Painting of the Year in 2020. He has been the recipient of a Starr Foundation scholarship, a Merit Scholarship by Anderson Ranch Art Center, a Way and Gate Foundation Grant and the Maryland Institute College of Art Chair’s Award Research Grant. Email: info@ivandavidng.com / Instagram: @ivandavidng / Website: https://www.ivandavidng.com/
Pamela Seong Koon is a multi hobbyist. Their work is published/forthcoming in Cordite Poetry Review, the tide rises, and superfroot. They can be found at http://pamelaseongkoon.me.
Andrew Kirkrose Devadason (here and here) is a Singaporean poet and student of linguistics and literature. His work has appeared in journals including Cordite Poetry Review, Minarets, and PERVERSE, and anthologies including EXHALE: An Anthology of Queer Singapore Voices.
Kemlyn Tan Bappe, BA Studio Art, MDiv Theology, MA Special Education, is a multi-disciplinary artist with expressions in poetry, theatre, spoken word, visual art and dance. She also works with artists on creative and flow. She is a teacher of exceptional students living in Phoenix, Arizona. She is a co-panelist on the Youtube Webshow, “The Poets Reacts” produced by The Poetry Global Network. She is an active community member of SingPoWriMo (Singapore Poetry Writing Month) and SEAPOWRIMO (Southeast Asia Poetry Writing Month). Her poems have been included in anthologies released by SingLit Station and Squircle Line Press. As a spoken word artist some of the events she has performed at include Poetry Slam at Wham! (Surprise, Arizona), The All-Arizona Poetry Slam Championships (2019), and online open mics in North America and the world (Singapore, Indonesia, The Philippines, India, Japan, Scotland, England, Canada, United States). Tan Bappe spent eight years touring with two repertory theatre companies. Tan Bappe is a native of Singapore and draws inspiration from her Peranakan heritage and the natural world. She is a recipient of the 2009-10 VSA National Teaching Artist Fellowship and has presented at the Smithsonian Museum of American Art. She is currently working on individual and collaborative projects that address climate change and conservation, advocacy to stop violence on women, men, children and persons living with disabilities, and helping each person find their voice and personal revolution.
M.A.S Frimm is a creative director/curator; writer; and maker, based in the “DMV” (DC-Maryland-Virginia) area.
Daryl Li is a writer and editor based in Singapore, with interests in film, games, and music. He has a website here: http://daryl.li/.
Charles J. March III is a neurodivergent hospital corpsman veteran currently living in Orange County, CA. His work has appeared in Feral, Fleas on the Dog, Neko Girl Magazine, Cajun Mutt, The Learned Pig, Bear Creek Gazette, Alien Buddha Press, Mantis, Cephalopress, Young Ravens, Squawk Back, Eskimo Pie, Atlas Obscura, Misery Tourism, Sulfur “Surrealist Jungle,” Mycelia, etc. More can be found at LinkedIn and SoundCloud.
Jonathan Chan is a writer, editor, and graduate student at Yale University. Born in New York to a Malaysian father and South Korean mother, he was raised in Singapore and educated in Cambridge, England. He is interested in questions of faith, identity, and creative expression. He has recently been moved by the work of Don Mee Choi, Boey Kim Cheng, and Henri Nouwen.
Kate Rogers’ poem about her mother, “Baba Yaga’s Child,” appeared in the May 2021 issue of WordCityLit. Her creative non-fiction essay about taking care of her mother at her remote forest home appeared in the spring 2021 issue of The Windsor Review. Kate’s work has also appeared in the Sad Girl Review, The Quarantine Review, World Literature Today, and Cha: An Asian Literary Journal, among other journals and anthologies. You can learn more about Kate and her work at https://katerogers.ca.
Cheng Tim Tim is a poet and a teacher from Hong Kong, currently reading the MSc in Creative Writing at the University of Edinburgh. Her poems are in Berfrois, diode, Cha: An Asian Literary Journal, Cordite Poetry Review, among others. She was nominated Best Small Fiction by SAND Journal in 2020. She is working on chapbooks which explore Hong Kong’s landscapes, as well as desire and rituals through the lens of tattooing. Find her on IG @mymothercalls or Twitter @timtimtmi.
Bill Wolak is a poet, collage artist, and photographer who has just published his eighteenth book of poetry entitled All the Wind’s Unfinished Kisses with Ekstasis Editions. His collages and photographs have appeared recently in the 2020 International Festival of Erotic Arts (Chile), the 2020 Seattle Erotic Art Festival, the 2020 Dirty Show in Detroit, the 2021 Rochester Erotic Arts Festival, the 2018 Montreal Erotic Art Festival, and Naked in New Hope 2018.
Leia Devadason is an artistic and cultural researcher/maker. After graduating the School of the Arts, Singapore, she studied Music at King’s College Cambridge and is now about to pursue a Masters in Musicology at St Catherine’s College, Oxford. She loves to write literarily, musically, and academically, and tries to integrate these various styles as well as give them life through sonic/musical performance.
LJ Kessels (she/her) is a writer based in Berlin, Germany. She has a MA in Philosophy from the University of Amsterdam and has worked for various (film) festivals, events, and whatchamacallits across Europe. Her work has previously been published in Stadtsprachen Magazin, Elsewhere: A Journal of Place, Goat’s Milk Magazine, and more.
Maggie Wang studies at the University of Oxford. Her writing has appeared or will appear in Harvard Review, Poetry Wales, Versopolis Review, and elsewhere. She is a Ledbury Emerging Poetry Critic and a Barbican Young Poet.
Cole Beaune is a Canadian-American poet and editor. His poems have been published in Issues Magazine, Former People, and forthcoming in The Vital Sparks, Dream Pop Journal, Blanket Swimming, and OF ZOOS. He is the poetry editor of Warm Milk Publishing, an in-print and online magazine dedicated to the publication of experimental and contemporary poetry/visual art from around the globe.
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Sign language images on the contents page engravings by Professor Joseph C. Gordon, MA, first published by Brentino Brothers in 1886.
Eight video clips on the cover page, from left to right and top to bottom:
A Dull Razor. Thomas A. Edison, Inc., Feb 28,1900, https://www.loc.gov/item/00694191/.
Annie Oakley. Performed by Annie Oakley. Thomas A. Edison, Inc., Nov 1, 1894, https://www.loc.gov/item/00694108/.
The Artist’s Dilemma. Directed by Edwin S. Porter. Thomas A. Edison, Inc., Dec 14, 1901, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bghDbisU2j0&feature=player_detailpage.
Seminary Girls. Thomas A. Edison, Inc., 1897, https://www.loc.gov/item/00694303/.
Gordon Sisters Boxing. Thomas A. Edison, Inc., May 6, 1901, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gordon_Sisters_Boxing_1901.ogv.
Hadj Cheriff. Performed by Hadji Cheriff, Thomas A. Edison, Inc., October 6, 1894, https://www.loc.gov/item/00694123/.
Trapeze Disrobing Act. Thomas A. Edison, Inc., November 11, 1901, https://www.loc.gov/item/96514756/.
Sandow. Performed by Eugen Sandow, Thomas A. Edison, Inc., May 18, 1894, https://www.loc.gov/item/00694298/.
