Dianne Araral is Philippines-born and Singapore-raised writer and poet interested in tender speculation. They’ve also been a local nightlife organizer and urban farm worker; you can find their writing on Tiger Moth Review, the Fragmentary Institute of Comparative Timelines, and Literary Hub. They are currently working on a manuscript-in-progress with the 2023 Singlit Station Manuscript Bootcamp.
Jack Xi (they/he) is a queer Singaporean poet and member of the writing collective /Stop@BadEndRhymes (stylised /s@ber). They’ve appeared in several poetry journals and anthologies. Find out more at jackxisg.wordpress.com.
A former journalist, Clara Chow has been shortlisted for the Singapore Literature Prize for her fiction, non-fiction and poetry. As the one-woman show behind Hermit Press, she has put out story collections such as Tales from the K-Pop, and the experimental prose chapbook There is No Why, Only. She was last sighted behind the Great Firewall of China. @hermitpress.sg
Natalie Wang is more likely to play video games or write novel-length fanfictions than write poetry, but still insists on calling herself a poet. She is based in Singapore and has been published in Fairy Tale Review, Cordite Poetry Review, Corvid Queen, Strange Horizons, Cartridge Lit, and Quarterly Literary Review Singapore. You can find her at www.nataliewang.me.
Sher Ting Chim is a Singaporean-Chinese writer. She is a 2021 Writeability Fellow with Writers Victoria, a member of Kenyon Review’s Winter Workshop 2023 and a participant of Tin House’s Winter Workshop 2024. She is a Pushcart and Best of The Net nominee with work published in Prairie Schooner, Pleiades, Gulf Coast, Colorado Review, Salt Hill, OSU The Journal, and elsewhere. Her debut chapbook, Bodies of Separation, is published with Cathexis Northwest Press and second chapbook, The Long-Lasting Grief of Foxes, is published with Mouthfeel Press. She tweets at @sherttt and writes at sherting.com
Jaco Beneduci graduated from UC Berkeley with a Bachelor’s in English and a Creative Writing Minor and finished his MFA in Creative-Writing: Poetry at UC Davis. He has been writing since childhood and has been published in One Report: On Justice, 176 BE and Pareidolia Literary: Wunderkammer Vol 2 and was the March 15th, 2022 Grad Student Featured Reader at UC Berkeley’s Holloway Poetry Series after Thalia Field. He was born in Singapore to a Hainanese family of sailors and currently resides in Northern California. Spiders are his Gods.
An Australian writer of Montenegrin origin, Pavle Radonic has spent nine years living in SE Asia. Previous work has appeared in a range of literary magazines, including most recently Panoply, Literary Veganism, Impermanent Earth, New World Writing Quarterly & The Wrath-Bearing Tree.
Justin Woo is a Singaporean hobbyist photographer. He tends to overthink and likes creating photographs that look complicated at first glance, but hopefully have some aesthetic appeal. He believes that convoluted ideas and images can conceal a deeper meaning, and thus ignite the search for it.
Daryl Lim Wei Jie 林伟杰 is a poet, translator and editor from Singapore. His latest collection of poetry, Anything but Human, was a finalist for the 2022 Singapore Literature Prize. He translated Short Tongue, a collection of poetry by the Singaporean Chinese poet Wang Mun Kiat. He co-edited and conceptualised the anthologies Food Republic: A Singapore Literary Banquet, which received a Special Award at the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards, and The Second Link, a book of Malaysian and Singaporean writing.
Kristina Erny is a third-culture poet who grew up in South Korea and elsewhere abroad. She holds an MFA from the University of Arizona. Her work has been the recipient of the Tupelo Quarterly Inaugural Poetry Prize and the Ruskin Art Club Poetry Award, as well as a finalist for the Coniston Prize. Her poems have appeared in The Los Angeles Review, Yemassee, Blackbird, and Tupelo Quarterly, among other journals. She currently lives and works in Shanghai, China, where she teaches with her partner and their three children. Her first book of poetry, Elijah Fed by Ravens, was published in December 2023 from Solum Literary Press.
Michael Leong’s most recent books are Words on Edge (Black Square Editions, 2018), Contested Records: The Turn to Documents in Contemporary North American Poetry (University of Iowa Press, 2020), and Sky-Quake: Tremor of Heaven (co•im•press, 2020), a co-translation, with Ignacio Infante, of Vicente Huidobro’s operatic long poem. He is the Robert P. Hubbard Assistant Professor of Poetry at Kenyon College.
Joses Ho is a poet, pro-wrestler, and scientist. As tech sorceror for SingPoWriMo (the largest online month-long poetry-writing activity in Asia), he archives and visualizes the poetry posted. Joses also has interests in creative computing and generative text. His fiction can be found at Nature Futures and LabLit. His poetry is published in QLRS, LONTAR, and various SingPoWriMo anthologies. As performer, he has been featured in Sing Lit Body Slam (the world’s first spoken-word / pro-wrestling show), Spoke and Bird, and the Singapore Writers’ Festival (2015, 2016, 2019). His poetry manuscript Moving Downwards in a Straight Line was selected for Manuscript Bootcamp (organised by Sing Lit Station) in 2019. He is also a pro-wrestler and ring announcer with Grapple MAX.
Maggie Wang’s recent work appears in Wet Grain, Brooklyn Review, and berlin lit. Her debut pamphlet, The Sun on the Tip of a Snail's Shell, was published by Hazel Press in 2022.
Lee Ju-Lyn (a.k.a. meekfreak) is a Singaporean writer-artist-whatever who works primarily with literary and visual art, with a specialisation in creative non-fiction and Chinese ink. Her works had been exhibited at the Substation and OF ZOOS. She has authored and self-published several fiction titles as well. She is also a curator and cultural producer, having initiated various collaborative art initiatives like zines and websites. A recent major project is Buddhist Art Meditations (BAM), an online collaborative journal connecting Buddhism and Art. Ju-Lyn read Bachelors of Social Sciences (Psychology) from the National University of Singapore and worked in the public service before studying at the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (NAFA), where she graduated as the Valedictorian of the Fine Art Diploma programme in 2018. She then completed a Masters of Arts in Museum Studies and Curatorial Practices from the Nanyang Technological University in 2019. She obtained a Postgraduate-Diploma in Buddhist Studies from the University of Kelaniya and Buddhist Library in 2022. https://meekfreak.com | https://www.instagram.com/meekfreak | https://www.facebook.com/meekfreak
Raphael Coronel is an instructional designer from Parañaque City, Philippines. His poems have been published in journals such as TOMÁS, Spork Press, Rabbit Australia, and ANI– the literary journal of the Cultural Center of the Philippines. He was a poetry fellow for the UST National Writers Workshop (2017), the Ateneo National Writers Workshop (2021), and the Silliman University National Writers Workshop (2022). He graduated from De La Salle University’s MFA in Creative Writing program. His first book of poems and paintings entitled will you tell me what I look like? was published by the UST Publishing House.
Edward Lee is an artist and writer from Ireland. His paintings and photography have been exhibited widely, while his poetry, short stories, non-fiction have been published in magazines in Ireland, England and America, including The Stinging Fly, Skylight 47, Acumen and Smiths Knoll. He is currently working on two photography collections: ‘Lying Down With The Dead’ and ‘There Is A Beauty In Broken Things’. He also makes musical noise under the names Ayahuasca Collective, Orson Carroll, Lego Figures Fighting, and Pale Blond Boy. His blog/website can be found at https://edwardmlee.wordpress.com.
Jessa C. Suganob works with image and text-based explorations and is one of the founders of the Los Baños, Philippines-based collective Bangkô, a collective dedicated to forming communities and safe spaces for women and queers. Her works can be found in LUMIN Journal, TLDTD, and elsewhere. She hails from Misamis Oriental, Philippines, and writes and translates between English, Filipino, Binisaya, and Hiligaynon.
Wahidah Tambee graduated with degrees in psychology and English literature. She enjoys exploring the therapeutic and revelatory qualities of language and the visual arts, and hopes to produce a piece of work that combines both poetry and art sometime in the future.
Desmond Francis Xavier Kon Zhicheng-Mingdé (b. 1971) is the author of an epistolary novel, a quasi-memoir, two lyric essay monographs, four hybrid works, nine poetry collections, and a creative guided journal. The former journalist has edited over twenty-five books and co-produced three audio books, several pro bono for non-profit organizations. Among other accolades, he is the recipient of the IBPA Benjamin Franklin Award, National Indie Excellence Book Award, Poetry World Cup, Singapore Literature Prize, two Illumination Christian Book Awards, two Independent Publisher Book Awards, and four Living Now Book Awards. Desmond is Senior Lecturer of Creative Writing and Publishing at Nanyang Technological University. He can be found at: desmondkon.com.
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) and Managing Editor of poetry.sg. He has recently been moved by the work of Jay Gao, Jericho Brown, and Thomas Merton. He has an abiding interest in faith, identity, and creative expression. More of his writing can be found at jonbcy.wordpress.com.
Chrystal Ho is a writer from Singapore who works with poetry and non-fiction. Her writing can be found in The Tiger Moth Review, PR&TA Journal, and Portside Review, amongst others. She is currently pursuing a Masters in Creative Writing.
Yap Hao Yang (b. 2003) is a writer and arts organiser from Singapore.
Ho Kin Yunn is a Singaporean writer. He is currently working on a collection of autofictional poetics centering grief and withdrawing. His work appears in Cha, Suspect, and Fieldfare Press, among others.
