Afiza
Afiza is a fresh (good) Honours graduate who is available for worthwhile writing opportunities.

Airina Imran
Airina Imran is a 21-year-old media student from Singapore. She likes zombie film-nights, the smell of crisp laundry, basil on most things, and writing.

Adam Aitken
Adam Aitken is a writer/scholar based in Sydney. Born in London of a Thai mother and Australian father, he spent his early childhood in Bangkok and Kuala Lumpur. He is the author of four collections of poetry - the latest, Eighth Habitation, forthcoming from Giramondo Publishing. His work has appeared in Meanjin, Southerly, HEAT, Cordite, and Poetry (USA).

Masturah Alatas
Masturah Alatas is a Singapore-born writer who lives in Italy.

Serena Alibhai
Serena Alibhai has published short stories recently in magazines such as Quintessence and Montreal Serai. She has a degree in English Literature from McGill University and is currently working on a novel. She is also the President of the Alexandra Writers Centre in Calgary for 2004.

Darran Anderson
Darran Anderson is a 25 year old Irish writer from Derry. He has been published with the Prague Literary Review (Czech Republic), Poetry Salzburg Review (Austria), Culture Northern Ireland, the BBC, Hard Luck Magazine (USA) and Deaddrunkdublin.

Daniel Andersson
Daniel Andersson runs the poetry magazine Tempo and has had recent work in Brittle Star, Weyfarers, The Interpreters House, The Journal and others.

Edlyn Ang
Edlyn has been published in journals, anthologies and exhibitions in Singapore, Australia and Hong Kong.

Angeline Ang
Angeline Ang is a struggling writer, artist and student. She likes Daria, Chinese pop, good food, good conversation, wenyi xiaoshuo, Korean dramas and all things Japanese. She is currently working on a Chinese novel.

Azrul Hisham
Azrul Hisham completed his A-levels in 2005 at Jurong Junior College, Singapore and is currently serving full-time national service as a firefighter in the Singapore Civil Defence Force.

Catherine Baab
Catherine Baab is an International Fellow at Ngee Ann Polytechnic who teaches creativity and academic writing. In the summer of 2004, she was selected to participate in Bucknell University's Seminar for Younger Poets. Her poetry has appeared in Richmond and Abroad View magazines.

Oscar Balajadia
Oscar Balajadia is a member of PEN International's Hong Kong Chapter. His previous books of poems are Parnaso, in Tagalog (1991) and Lighthouse, in English (1999).

Trina Nileena Banerjee
Trina Nileena Banerjee is the author of Inside a Blue Corridor, a collection of poems published by the Writers' Workshop of Calcutta. Her poetry and other writings have appeared in The Statesman and The Asian Age. She lives in Calcutta and is currently working toward a master's degree in English.

Isabela Banzon
Isabela Banzon teaches literature and creative writing at the University of the Philippines. She is currently co-editing the Philippines section of an anthology of Anglophone Southeast Asian literature and of criticism of Anglophone South and Southeast Asian literature, with Singapore.

Linda Benninghoff
Linda Benninghoff has published two chapbooks, The Street Where I Was A Child and Departures. She has been published in about 25 magazines and journals, and has also done work in Anglo-Saxon.

Stephen Black
Stephen Black, an American, has also lived in Europe and Asia. Since 2002 he has been based in Singapore, where he continues to work with art, writing, 3D technology and moving images. His photo-journal Bus Stopping (2008) is the first of several planned publishing projects.

Boey Kim Cheng
Boey Kim Cheng is the author of Somewhere Bound, Another Place and Days of No Name. The first won the NBDCS Book Award for Poetry in 1992. He now lives and lectures in Australia.

Robert Bohm
Robert Bohm lives with his wife Suman in the U.S. and spends a portion of each year in India, her homeland. Bohm has authored two books and two chapbooks, the most recent of which is Uz Um War Moan Ode (Pudding House Publications, 2007), and also has been published in a wide variety of print and online journals.

Andrea Bonnin
Andrea Bonnin is a poet and novellist. His poetry received the first prize in the Genoa International Poetry Festival on 2000. He is one of the ten young poets from Turin included in the anthology Le carte tatuate (2007); Bonnin's first collection Temporali (trans. Storms) will be published in October 2008.

Michelle Cahill
Michelle Cahill is a non-resident Indian who lives in Sydney. Her poetry collection The Accidental Cage was short-listed for the 2007 Judith Wright Prize.

Srinjay Chakravarti
A journalist, economist and poet living and working in Calcutta, Srinjay's poetry and prose have been published in newspapers, journals, magazines and webzines in India, USA, UK, Israel and Sweden, including The Telegraph, The Statesman, Indian Express, The Journal of the Poetry Society (India), Snakeskin, Ariga, Eclectica Magazine, Voices, Poetry Kit Magazine and The New Miscellany. His first book of poems Occam's Razor received the SALT literary award from John Kinsella and a literary trust in Melbourne, Australia in 1995.

Chan Ziqian
Chan Ziqian is studying English Literature at Warwick University in the UK.

Carol Chan
No information available.

Meira Chand
Meira was born in the UK, and has lived in Japan and India. She has been a Singapore resident since 1997. She has several novels to her name, including The Gossamer Fly, The Last Quadrant, The Bonsai Tree, The Painted Cage, House of the Sun and A Choice of Evils.

Avik Chanda
Avik Chanda has been published in Ascent, Kimera, Spork, Brittlestar, Poetic Voices, Eclectica, Poetry Depth Quarterly and Slant, among others.

Hugo Chaparro
Hugo Chaparro has won awards for his fiction and critical work and is a two-time recipient of the Colombian National Poetry Prize. He has translated Shakespeare, writes regular columns on film for several magazines, and is soon to publish both a novel, La Sombra del Incantropo (The Werewolf's Shadow), and a volume of poetry, Escrito en el Tiempo (Written in Time).

Cheong Lee San
Cheong Lee San works in a telco.

Felix Cheong
Felix was the recipient of the National Arts Council's Young Artist of the Year for Literature Award in 2000. His three books of poetry are Temptation and Other Poems (1998), I Watch the Stars Go Out (1999) and Broken By The Rain (2003). His poems have also been published in the Straits Times and five anthologies of Singaporean poetry. He has recently completed his Masters of Philosophy in Creative Writing at the University of Queensland.

Peter Cherney
Peter Cherney is a college student in the United States. His work has also been selected for Paris-based Van Gogh's Ear. Cherney loves reading and writing poetry and playing badminton.

Alywin Chew Shee Chiat
Alywin is a photographic subeditor by profession and a lamenting, self indulgent writer during confession.

Eileen Chew
Eileen Chew, born in 1976, lives and works in Singapore.

Debbie Chia
Debbie Chia is a first-class honours graduate in Cultural Studies from the University of Melbourne. She has been published in the2ndrule, JUICE and HerStory, a compendium of essays published by the Singapore Council of Women's Organisations. She is a full-time writer and part-time DJ. Her favourite authors are Walter Benjamin, D.H. Lawrence and Charles Bukowski.

Chia Yueh Chin
Chia Yueh Chin is the 2002 winner of the NUS Society Medal (Best Honours student in English Literature). She has co-edited QLRS, and has contributed to papertiger #02.

Choo Shu Jian
Shu Jian is a student (part-time) in Hwa Chong Junior College. He is a big fan of Jay Chou. He won the inaugural edition of the Lee Tzu Pheng Poetry Award in 2002.

Michael Chu
Michael Chu has written some short stories with a positive take, but is now re-shifting his focus to furthering himself in management accounting.

Damon Chua
Damon won the 2007 Ovation Award (Best World Premiere Play) for his full-length work Film Chinois, beating six other nominees including a Tony Award winner. His pieces have been presented in Los Angeles, New York, Boston, Pennsylvania, Alaska and London. He currently serves as Literary Manager at the oldest non-profit theatre company in Los Angeles - Company of Angels.

Dominic Chua
Dominic Chua is a 29-year-young human being struggling with the vicissitudes of life. He enjoys weaving webs of meaning. In his spare time, he teaches GP at Victoria Junior College.

Liana Chua
Liana is a PhD candidate in Social Anthropology at Cambridge University.

Grace Chua
Grace Chua, 19, is a lit geek with a fondness for cyberpunk and Graham Greene. She is now an undergraduate at an Ivy League college.

Ian Chung Weiqiang
Ian Chung is a Humanities student at Raffles Junior College. His poetry has been published in the international anthology, Graphic Poetry (2005), a project initiated by the UK design group Wig-01.

Robert P. Craig
No information available.

Rachel Curzon
Rachel Curzon teaches in a public school in the south of England. She has won an Eric Gregory Award, and was also a runner up in the 2007 Bridport Prize Competition. Her poems have been published in Mslexia and Poetry London.

Vernyce Dannells
A graduate of Radcliffe's Publishing Procedures Course, Vernyce received her M.A. in journalism. She has spent her professional life as a producer for National Public Radio, and written for several Fortune 100 companies and academic institutions. Cadenza Press will publish her chapbook, Temporarily Abated, in the summer of 2003. She lives in Oahu, Hawaii.

Eugene Datta
Eugene Datta is a Calcutta-based writer whose fiction, poetry, essays and book reviews have appeared in the Richmond Review, Persimmon, West Coast Line, Heist Magazine, Poetry Bay, Dimsum, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Statesman, The Times of India, Specchio Della Stampa, the Far Eastern Economic Review and elsewhere.

Tania De Rozario
Tania De Rozario is a practising artist whose work deals with issues of gender, space and text. She earns her keep as a freelance art educator and is the associate editor at Grain Photo, an Asian photography magazine distributed regionally.

Rodrigo V. Dela Peña Jr
Rodrigo V. Dela Peña Jr. lives in Dumaguete, an idyllic city on the island of Negros, Philippines. His works have been published in the Blue Print Review, Literary Tonic, Gowanus, Mudluscious and Poets' Picturebook.

Stephan B. Delbos
Stephan is an American poet currently living in Prague. His work has been featured most recently in The Los Angeles Journal and Stylus Poetry Journal.

Regina Derieva
Regina Derieva is the author of twenty books of poems, prose and essays. Her books in English translation are Inland Sea and Other Poems, In Commemoration of Monument, Instructions for Silence, The Last Island, and Alien Matter. Her work has also appeared in Poetry, Quadrant, Modern Poetry in Translation, Salt, and St. Petrsburg Review as well as in many Russian magazines.

Valentina Diana
Valentina Diana is an actress, playwright and poet. She published her first collection of poems, Tre ore di notte e un pezzo del mattino (trans. Three hours of night and a piece of morning) in 2007, presenting it in Italy, Holland and France; her poetry is translated and published on reviews in Paris, Krakow, Aquas Santas (Portugal) and soon in Switzerland. In winter 2008 she will publish a new collection, Per caso allora, resterei un poco.

Roberto Drummond
Roberto Drummond was a young journalist during the Brazilian political upheaval of the sixties whose writing eventually got him in trouble. While he wasn't exiled, he was blackballed and couldn't earn a living as a political journalist, and eventually became a sportswriter. Drummond was a huge fan of Atletico Mineiro, and he wrote about football to earn his living for the rest of his life. The myth goes that he died watching Brazil play England in the 2002 World Cup. At the time of his death, he was the author of eight novels and two collections of short stories. His work here on QLRS is only the second time he has been published in English.

Eng Shou Jie
Shou Jie is currently serving his National Service with the Music & Drama Company, and using the free time it offers to pursue his interests in jazz, fashion, writing and (strangely but truly) jeans.

Farah Aida
Farah is reading for her Bachelor of Arts (Education) in English Language and Literature at Nanyang Technological University.

Michael Fessler
Michael Fessler is an American writer and teacher who has been living in Japan since 1986. His work has appeared in periodicals such as the Kyoto Review, Harvard Review, Poetry Northwest, Atlanta Review, Xanadu and others. He has won second prize in the KO Haiku Magazine Nagoya Kyoiku Inkai, and two third placings for the Harold G. Henderson Award organised by the Haiku Society of America. In 2004, bottle rockets press published his chapbook of haiku, The Sweet Potato Sutra.

Keith Flynn
Keith Flynn is the author of three collections of poetry: The Talking Drum (1991), The Book of Monsters (1994), and The Lost Sea (2000). From 1987-1998, he was lyricist and lead singer for a rock band, The Crystal Zoo, which produced three albums. His poetry has appeared in many journals and anthologies around the world, including The Colorado Review, The Cuirt Journal (Ireland), Poetry Wales, The Southern Poetry Review and Shenandoah. He has been awarded the Sandburg Prize for poetry, and received numerous Pushcart nominations. Flynn is the founder and managing editor of The Asheville Poetry Review.

Tiziano Fratus
Tiziano Fratus directs Festival and Press Torino Poesia, and the contemporary theatre season «Dissezioni» for Teatro Fondamenta Nuove in Venice. He has published eight books of poetry: Lumina (2003, Rome), L’inquisizione (2004, Rome), Il molosso (2005, Rome), La torsione (2006, Torino), Il Molosso. Poema d’un’anima (2007, Torino - second edition), Il Ventre (2007, Torino) and Il Vangelo della Carne (2008, Torino). A new collection is forthcoming, I figli della pietà e di Mohammed Alì, along with another on writing, L’angelo di Mishima.

Pat Galvin
Pat Galvin has been published in Irish poetry outlets from The Irish Press page, Salmon and Riverine through to Poetry Ireland, The Sunday Tribune and The Shop. Winner of the inaugural Cecil Day Lewis Poetry Award, he was short listed twice for the Tribune/Hennessy Award in 1997 and 2000.

Wendy Gan
Wendy Gan is a Singaporean currently working and living in Hong Kong. Her works have also been published in Ariel and Westerly.

Gan See Siong
Gan See Siong works in the convention industry. He has published in From Boys to Men: A Literary Anthology of National Service in Singapore and Poetry Billboard.

Ioannis Gatsiounis
Ioannis Gatsiounis's fiction has appeared in Thieves Jargon and Skive Magazine. His journalism has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Asia Times, New York Post, Christian Science Monitor, World Press Review and San Francisco Chronicle, among other publications.

Marshall J. Getz
Marshall is the author of Subhas Chandra Bose - A Biography. His short stories have been published in Dim Sum and The Dalhousie Review.

Bonnie James Glover
Bonnie is an African-American attorney living in New Jersey. She teaches mediation skills to federal employees. Her greatest desire is to live in a world of peace and to be able to write everyday. Her first novel, Searching with Qwai Chang, will be published in May 2005.

Jim Goar
Jim Goar took his MFA from the Kerouac School at Naropa University. He has spent the past few years teaching English at various schools in China, Thailand, and South Korea. His work has been published by the likes of Elimae, Three Therefore Two, Bombay Gin, and Can We Have Our Ball Back?.

Sheri Kristen Goh
Sheri is currently a doing a Masters dissertation on Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton at the National University of Singapore, where she received her Honours degree in English Literature, and where she is also a teaching assistant.

Wilson Goh
Wilson Goh is a freelance choral conductor. His writings have appeared in The Substation Magazine, NAFA Arts and Onewinged.

Goh Peng Fong
Peng Fong is a lawyer, and writes in his free time.

John Gorman
John's work has appeared in Queens Ledger, Glendale Register, Thunder Sandwich, Art and Mind, East of the Web, Hackwriters and elsewhere. His screenplay 'For the Love of Auntie' won at the 2003 NY International Indie Film and Video and Festival.

Neil Grimmett
Neil Grimmett has had stories published by, among others, London Magazine, Panurge, Iron, Stand, Sepia, Pretext and Ambit in the UK, Paris Transcontinental in France, Grain in Canada, Quadrant in Australia, New Contrast in South Africa and Fiction, The Yale Review, DoubleTake and The Southern Review in the USA.

Gui Wei Hsin
Gui Wei Hsin is in his final year at Wesleyan University in Connecticut, USA. He is majoring in both English and East Asian Studies, and writes poetry in English and Chinese.

Gwee Li Sui
Gwee Li Sui is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at the National University of Singapore. He is also a visual artist and a poet and has published a graphic novel Myth of the Stone (1993) and a collection of humorous poems Who Wants to Buy a Book of Poems? (1998).

Amari Hamadene
Born in Algeria in 1968, Amari Hamadene has publication credits in magazines and anthologies in France, Belgium and in Switzerland, such as Phreatique, Le Jardin d'Essai, Parages, Hauteurs, Estuaires, Archipel and Bleu d'Encre. Editor's Note: in March 2005, Amari Hamadene was implicated in a plagiarism controversy over poems that had begun appearing in English from late 2004. By April 2005, A.T. van 't Hof, who had first discovered the case, concluded: "I have been in contact with the ‘real’ Amari Hamadene. He claims to be innocent and assumes that somebody else must have published under his name. I regard this case as closed." As far as can be ascertained, the Amari Hamadene poem published on QLRS is an original piece.

Kirsten Han
Kirsten Han is currently in New Zealand trying to get her degree in Media Arts (majoring in Moving Image). She has been writing since she was seven.

Jan Oskar Hansen
Jan Oskar Hansen is the author of Letters From Portugal, Routes and Shaken & Stirred.

Hari Kumar
Family man, civil servant, writer, philosopher, IT geek, community worker etc are some of the hats Hari Kumar wears to make this life worthwhile. He lives in Tanjong Pagar with his wife and two sons.

Jonathan Hayes
Jonathan Hayes lives in San Francisco, California. He has taught poetry at 826 Valencia, a writing center for children in the Mission District of the City.

Heng Siok Tian
Heng Siok Tian is the author of Crossing the Chopsticks, My City, My Canvas and Contouring, and a co-editor of QLRS.

Heng Kaile
Kaile is an avid traveller and aspiring writer. Therefore, he hopes to become a travel journalist some day.

Bernard Henrie
Bernard Henrie lives in Los Angeles.

Ed Higgins
Ed Higgins has been published in Monkeybicycle Pindeldyboz, Bellowing Ark, CrossConnect, Word Riot and Blue Print Review, among others. He teaches creative writing and literature at George Fox University in Oregon, USA.

Sid Gómez Hildawa
Sid Gómez Hildawa, (1962-2008) is a poet, visual artist and professional architect. As an artist, he was among the recipients of the CCP Thirteen Artists Award and the British Council Fellowship for art and architecture in 1990. He participated in many group and solo exhibitions, among them the 2000 International Art Biennale of Havana Cuba, and the 2002 artist-in-residency program at Fujino, Japan. As an architect, he designed houses and offices on a freelance basis. As a writer, he was a poetry fellow to the UP National Writer's workshop in 1995 and the Iligan National Writer's workshop in 1997. He won 2nd place twice in the Philippines Free Press Literary Awards for poetry, in 2001 and 2004. Hildawa obtained his Master of Fine Arts degree in Creative Writing from the De La Salle Universityin 2004.

Richard Hillman
Richard Hillman lives near Timbertown (NSW), Australia. Picaro Press is due to release his sixth collection of poetry, Timber Country. His work has been widely published in Australia, USA, UK, NZ, Canada, China, and Europe.

Tammy Ho Lai-ming
Tammy Ho Lai-ming is a Hong Kong-born writer. She is the editor of Hong Kong U Writing: An Anthology (2006) and a co-editor of Love & Lust (2008). Ho is also a poetry editor of Sotto Voce Magazine and a founding co-editor of the first Hong Kong-based online literary journal, Cha: An Asian Literary Journal.

Hong Wee
Hong Wee is thirty-three, and has been writing for the last 2-3 years, solely for the entertainment of his wife (who is also his greatest motivator). When he is not slogging at the day job, he is either writing, swing dancing or hurting himself playing football. He has a degree in Mathematics but no knowledge of it whatsoever.

Michael Hu Xiuxian
Michael Hu first began writing at the age of eight, and has never stopped since. Michael plans to pursue a career in journalism with a view to writing full-time.

Judith Huang
Judith was the recipient of the British Young Poet of the Year award three times in 2001, 2003 and 2004, which saw her on week-long poetry courses in Yorkshire, England, where she was mentored by poets Mario Petrucci, Moniza Alvi, Philip Gross and Fiona Sampson. As Head of Hwa Chong Lit Wing from 2003-2004, she organized the More Than Words exhibition as well as YAWP!, a performance poetry competition. She has been published in One-Winged, From This Tree as well as but. She recently conducted a poetry course at her alma mater, RGS, now runs a business selling handcrafted earrings, and will attend Harvard University later this year on a Loke Cheng Kim Scholarship.

Lynn Huang
No information available.

Huang Qin Qin
Qin Qin is the editor of Screenhub Asia, based at The Substation in Singapore.

D.J. Huppatz
D.J. Huppatz is a writer who lives in Melbourne, Australia. He has published a wide variety of writing, in, among others, the literary journals Sulfur, Tinfish, Aught, Heat, Meanjin, Southerly, Overland, Cordite, Ulitarra and Blast. He is the author of four poetry chapbooks: The Week Sonnets, Sealer’s Cove, American Songs and City of Swallows. In 1998 he co-founded Textbase, a literary journal and experimental small press.

Aishwarya Iyer
Aishwarya Iyer is twenty and will soon graduate in English Literature from St. Xavier’s College, Mumbai.

Joji Jacob
Originally from India, Joji Jacob is an award-winning copywriter based in Singapore. He uses any time he can steal from his day job to travel, sketch and write.

Terry Jaensch
Terry Jaensch is an Australian poet, actor and monologist. His first volume of poetry BUOY was Highly Commended in the Anne Elder Award by the Fellowship of Australian Writers. He has been the recipient of an Asialink residency in Singapore. Currently he is working on Orphan's Own Project, a cabaret about his time growing up in an orphanage.

Allan Johnston
Allan Johnston teaches writing and literature at DePaul University and Columbia College Chicago. His poems have appeared in Poetry, Weber Studies and other journals, and he published one poetry book, Tasks of Survival.

Meena Kandasamy
Meena Kandasamy is a twenty-one year old writer, poet and translator based in Chennai, India. Her poem 'Mascara' won the first prize in the national level Indian Horizons Poetry Contest 2004 conducted by the government-run Indian Council for Cultural Relations.

Kao Jong-Ee
No information available.

Tim Keane
Tim's writing has won awards from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Bronx Council on the Arts. He has recent work in the US in Denver Quarterly, Shenandoah and Apostrophe, and in the UK in Modern Painters, The Reader and Pennine Platform. Tim lives in Mt Vernon, New York.

W.B. Keckler
W.B. Keckler's most recent book, Sanskrit of the Body, won in the National Poetry Series 2002 and is just out through Penguin. His other books include Ants Dissolve in Moonlight, Recombinant Image Day and the ebook I Came Dressed As John Wilkes Booth.

Peng-Ean Khoo
Peng-Ean Khoo is a poet-artist trying to transgress the boundaries between text, language, literature (in particular poetry) and the visual arts. She is the founding editor of Gallery Behind the Falls. She knows there is such a thing as new media but doggedly refuses to stop making print books as she explains, "My hands cannot breathe in virtual space". Peng-Ean has a balding Syngonium as a pet.

Ronald Klein
Ronald Klein is an academic at the Hiroshima Jogakuin University.

Koh Beng Liang
Koh Beng Liang is the author of Last Three Women (2002), a first book of poems published by Ethos Books. He graduated from Carnegie Mellon University in 1999, where he studied electrical and computer engineering. He is a co-founder of the2ndrule, a guerilla creative email magazine.

Koh Jee Leong
Born in 1970, Koh Jee Leong received his first insight into the power of poetry when he discovered a cheque in the post for a teenage poem he wrote which was read over national radio. He has not looked back since, though no further cheques have appeared in the mailbox. He graduated from Oxford University with first class honours in Literature and taught English Language and Literature in a secondary school. He is presently the Vice Principal of the same school.

Koh Tsin Yen
Koh Tsin Yen lives in Singapore.

Yvonne Koh
Yvonne Koh works in Singapore.

Adeline Koh
Adeline Koh is a postdoctoral fellow with the Department of English Language and Literature at the National University of Singapore. She is currently working on projects involving colonial literature, modernism, and the intersections of African and Asian literature.

Gilbert Koh
Gilbert Koh, born 1973, is a lawyer. His poetry has been published in various publications in Singapore and elsewhere, including Atlanta Review, papertiger, Slope, No Other City - The Ethos Anthology of Urban Poetry, Love Gathers All - The Philippines-Singapore Anthology of Love Poetry, From Boys to Men - A Literary Anthology of National Service in Singapore and Poetry Billboard.

Stella Kon
Stella Kon is one of Singapore's best known playwrights.

Jerome Kugan
Jerome Kugan aka JK is a KL-based writer, poet, musician. In his spare time he publishes a poetry zine called Poetika. His story "Love in the Post Nicotine Age" was recently featured in Silverfish New Writing 1. He is currently working on a collection of short prose and verse.

Brennan Kwa Yiew Khoon
Brennan is currently an English Literature student in NTU. He loves writing and starting new stories but completing any story is an elusive beast that frequently evades capture.

Ken Kwek
Ken Kwek graduated from Cambridge University with a degree in English Literature in 2003. He worked in London as a cameraman on a variety of films and documentaries, before returning to Singapore as a journalist in August 2005.

Desmond Kwok
Desmond is a history teacher. He lives in London with his two dogs, Gog and Magog.

Amy T.Y. Lai
Amy TY Lai was born and brought up in Hong Kong. She got her graduate degree from Cambridge, UK, and has now started her JD and new life across the Atlantic, in another romantic and historic city, Boston. Fully dedicated to becoming a lawyer, she still misses her former life and will continue to write when time permits.

Kenneth Lam
Once upon a time, Kenneth Lam lived in a city called Vancouver. Besides missing the weather and maple syrup, he is currently combating enforced public servitude with chain-dreaming.

Agnes Lam
Born and brought up in Hong Kong, Agnes Lam left home to study in Singapore and then America. She is now an associate professor at the University of Hong Kong and has contributed poems to journals such as Ariel, Commentary, Dimsum, Singa, Westerly and Yuan Yang. Her first poetry collection, Woman to Woman and Other Poems was published in 1997 and her second collection, Water Wood Pure Splendour, was published in 2001.

Gary Langford
Gary Langford is the author of 24 books in Australia and New Zealand, including 9 novels, 8 books of poetry and 3 collections of stories, the most recent being Lunch at the Storyteller's Restaurant in 2002.

Eliana Debora Langiu
Eliana Debora Langiu published her first poetry collection Rag Time in 1993. She was also part of the 2007 anthology Le carte tatuate. Dieci poeti torinesi (trans. Tatoo Papers. Ten Poets from Turin); she published on june 2008 her second collection, Polaroid. She has presented in the Festival Poestate (Lugano) and in the Genoa International Poetry Festival. French translations of her poems are published in review «Les Citadelles» (Paris, 2008).

Lau Peet Meng
In daily life, Peet Meng is a civil servant.

Andrea Lau
Andrea is a classical musician who hears the world in sonorities and tonalities, a scintillating prosaist who waxes lyrical about being a lover of life and a vivacious hippy who simultaneously swoons at and condemns the concept of a compartmentalised spiritualist.

Lee Yew Leong
Yew Leong is a Singaporean writer and video artist who has lived in the United States, France and China. He won the 2003 James Assatly Memorial Prize for Fiction at Brown University, where he was mentored by Robert Coover. His work has appeared in The New York Times, H.O.W. Journal, Chaise Magazine, Lianhe Zaobao and Journeys:Words, Home, and Nation: An anthology of Singapore Poetry.

Bridget-Rose Lee
Bridget-Rose Lee is from Singapore.

Brandon Lee
Brandon Lee is an occasional advertising copywriter and freelance author of articles on technology, lifestyle, and entertainment. He received an NAH-SPH Golden Point Award for Poetry in 2001.

Aaron Lee
Aaron Lee is a lawyer and prize-winning poet whose work has appeared in many publications in Singapore and elsewhere. He is the author of A Visitation of Sunlight and co-editor of the poetry anthologies No Other City and Love Gathers All.

Ken Lee
Born in 1982, Ken enrolled with Columbia University in 2003.

Alfie Lee
Alfie Lee is an artist working in the media of writing, photography and graphic design. He is the author of a collection of poems, Yellow: Ginnie's Favourite Colour. Alfie currently lives in New York City.

Allison Lee
Allison is an Australian who is currently working in Singapore as a librarian with an international school.

Lee Seow Ser
Lee Seow Ser is a Singaporean currently living in the city of Lorient, France. She is a lawyer by profession, and is currently on sabbatical leave.

Jeffery Lee
Jeffery was a junior college teacher in Singapore in the 90s. He now works as a librarian in Australia.

Lee Tse Mei
Lee Tse Mei was born in Singapore and has spent much of her life living, studying and working within its shores. She writes in her spare time.

Joanne Leow
Joanne Leow works at MediaCorp. She graduated in Comparative Literature and International Relations from Brown University. While there she self-published a chapbook of poetry, Apatride and a collection of creative non-fiction entitled Wandering. Her work can also be read at Literary Salt and the2ndrule.

Oswald LeWinter
Oswald LeWinter is an American poet living in Lisbon. He has been widely published internationally, and his awards include the International Rilke Prize for poems in German and English.

Li Xueying
Xueying now works with Singapore Press Holdings. She was the first runner-up for the Angus Ross Prize in English Literature in 1997.

Joe Liew
Joe Liew Zhou Hau is a student of Philosophy. He writes prose and poetry in his free time.

Jeremy Lim Mun Loong
Jeremy Lim Mun Loong is a student of English Literature with NUS.

Serena Lim
Serena writes freelance and travel articles from time to time.

Lim Hern Khoon
Lim Hern Khoon fell in love with the English language unexpectedly during national service.

Desiree Lim
Desiree Lim is eighteen. She intends to 1) learn to drive, 2) read English Literature in the UK, and 3) become a rock star, in that order.

Michelle Lim
Michelle is a PhD candidate in art history at Princeton University. In 2004, she curated the giant Visions and Illusions exhibition in Singapore.

Vincent Lim
Originally from Singapore, Vincent is an MBA student living in New York.

Shirley Geok-lin Lim
Shirley Lim is an award-winning Malaysian-born American writer of poetry, fiction, and criticism. Her first collection of poems, Crossing The Peninsula, published in 1980, won her the Commonwealth Poetry Prize, a first both for an Asian and for a woman. Her memoir, Among the White Moon Faces, received the 1997 American Book Award. Lim is a professor in the English Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Lin Hongen
Hongen is a 20-year-old National Serviceman with an interest in short stories and computer gaming.

Nicholas Liu
Nicholas Liu is the editor of Whatnot Magazine. He is currently fulfilling his national service in the Singapore Armed Forces. A recipient of the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award in 2003, he has had work published in Snow Monkey, Sometimes City and the2ndrule.

Loh Jee Kean
Jee Kean is currently a full-time choral director and staff member of Westwood Secondary School and his contributions include spearheading the school's IT music programme. He teaches loop-based composition using the computer and he and his students were recently interviewed by The Computer Times for their innovation in the area of IT music in the secondary school curriculum.

Peter Loh
Peter is a retired maths teacher.

Melvin Look
Melvin Look is a consultant gastrointestinal surgeon with his own private practice in Singapore but is working on a second career as a tattoo artist. He is currently saving his pennies to buy a tea plantation in the Cameron Highlands.

Richard Lord
Richard is a New Englander working as a journalist.

Low Lai Chow
Low Lai Chow is a final-year journalism student doing Communication Studies in the Nanyang Technological University. She would love to weigh an eternity but unfortunately her BMI falls below 17.

Low Ying Ping
Ying Ping graduated from the University of Leeds with a BA (Hons) in English Language and Literature. Her poems have previously appeared in Singa. She is currently working in MOE.

Eric Low Soon Liang
Eric Low lives and works in singapore in the audio-visual industry; wishes he could live a little more and work a little less.

Karen Low
Karen is currently a marketing professional in the info-communications industry, covering the Asia-Pacific. On the Dean's List for her first degree, she graduated from the National University of Singapore (NUS) the following year with a Bachelor of Social Science Second Class (Upper Division) Honours Degree, majoring in sociology. She occasionally tries to write more than just emails and SMSes.

Charles Lowe
Charles Lowe lives in Alfred New York. His work has appeared in Slow Trains and The Hardy Review, and is forthcoming in print in The Poetry Motel. "The All-Night Attendant at the Foreign Expert's Compound" is part of a work in progress entitled The Blind City.

Mabel Lui
Mabel is a twenty-two year old Sociology student from Singapore. She enjoys laughing without restraint, rooting for the underdog and mcsweeneys.net.

Ma Shaoling
Ma Shaoling, age 23, studying and keeping her fingers crossed always at the keyboard.

Kent MacCarter
Currently pursuing an MA in writing at University of Melbourne, Kent MacCarter has publication credits in The Age, Stylus, Cordite, and upcoming appearances in Meanjin and Poetry New Zealand.

Louis Malloy
Louis Malloy lives in Nottingham, England. He works as a computer programmer but prefers to write fiction. His short stories have been published in a variety of magazines, including The New Writer, The Dublin Quarterly, Aesthetica, Eclectica, Projected Letters, Buzzwords, Prose-Ax and Southern Ocean Review. He has won prizes in The Momaya Short Story Competition and the BBC London Book Fair competition and was a finalist in the Middlesex University Press Literary Prize

Sharanya Manivannan
Sharanya Manivannan was born in India in 1985 and grew up in Sri Lanka and Malaysia. A writer, dancer, painter, actress, photographer, journalist and activist, she is working on her first novel and a collection of poems. She lives in Kuala Lumpur.

Gianni Marchetti
Gianni Marchetti (1955) has published a collection of tales, Francese alle medie (2005, Milan), a collection of poems, Una donna così (2008, Turin) and a CD titled Fa rima con Jazz. Sette poesie sul jazz (2008, Novara, scored by Andrea Trecate based on a selection of poems taken from "Una donna così").

Allen McGill
Originally from NYC, Allen lives, writes, acts and directs theatre in Mexico. His published fiction, non-fiction, poetry, plays, photos, etc., have appeared in print as well as on line: NY Times, The Writer, Newsday, Literary Potpourri, Poetry Midwest, Herons Nest, Frogpond, Modern Haiku, World Haiku Review, many others. He is haibun editor for Simply Haiku.

Abhishek Mehrotra
Abhishek is a writer based in Singapore.

Alice Mendoza
Alice is a Singaporean presently reading Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities at Wesleyan College.

Corey Mesler
Corey Mesler is the owner of Burke's Book Store, in Memphis, Tennessee, one of America's oldest (1875) and best independent bookstores. He has published poetry and fiction in numerous journals and his first novel, Talk: A Novel in Dialogue, appeared in 2002. A poetry chapbook, Chin-Chin in Eden, is just out from Still Waters Press.

Nicky Moey
Nicky began writing stories in 1983 and had his first book, Let's Play Games, published in 1986. It was later reissued in 1990 as Pontianak: 13 Chilling Tales. His other books include 999: True Cases from the CID, Sing a Song of Suspense (1988) and Princess of Darkness (1992).

Dipika Mukherjee
Dipika Mukherjee is the editor of two collections of short stories from Malaysia and Singapore: The Merlion and Hibiscus in 2002, and Silverfish New Writing in 2006. Her poems have been published in Hong Kong, the United States and the United Kingdom, as well as broadcast over Singapore radio. She currently teaches Creative Writing in Amsterdam.

Arka Mukhopadhyay
Arka Mukhopadhyay was born in Calcutta and now lives and works in Bangalore as a poet, poetry-performer, theatre practitioner and performance artist. He is the joint winner of the TFA creative writing award, 2008, and the third place holder in the poetry slam at the Kalaghoda festival, 2008. He regularly performs in different parts of India.

Christopher Mulrooney
Christopher Mulrooney has written poems in fourW, My Name Is Mud, Why Vandalism? and The Collared Peccary.

Neil Murphy
Neil Murphy teaches in the English literature dept at in NTU's School of Humanities and Social Sciences. His book, Irish Fiction and Postmodern Doubt, was published in March 2004.

Musa Karim
No information available.

Amjad Nasser
Amjad Nasser was born in 1955 in al-Turra, Jordan. He has published nine collections of poetry and one travel book. Several different volumes of selected poetry have been published, including French and Italian translations. He is also and one of the founding editors of Banipal magazine. Nasser now lives in London.

Imogen Neale
Imogen Neale has written in freelance capacity for magazines such as (the now defunct) Staple and Lucid, Pulp, Varsity, Lumiere and the Graduate Journal of Asia Pacific Studies. In 2005 she completed her Sociology MA thesis that looked at the Singaporean government’s use of culture and the arts as economic and developmental tools.

Leonard Ng
Leonard Ng is an undergraduate at the National University of Singapore. In his free time he tries to change the world. Whether or not he succeeds isn't for him to say.

Ng Yi-Sheng
Ng Yi-Sheng (b. 1980) graduated in 2005 from Columbia University, majoring in Comparative Literature, Creative Writing and Coming Out. He is the author of Last Boy and a book of stories based on interviews with gay, lesbian and bisexual people in Singapore.

Megan Ng
Megan is currently flying around the world. She read English Studies in Durham University, UK.

Joson Ng
Joson is in his 20s, and is currently working as an engineer after graduating from NTU in 2006.

Ng Wei Chian
Ng Wei Chian is gradually being squeezed out of her room by the growing pile of dusty books and records waiting to be read and listened to.

Ng Shing Yi
Ng Shing Yi works at Mediacorp, having graduated from Brown University.

Ng Teng Kuan
By an incredible miracle of Divine providence, Teng Kuan recently graduated from Princeton University with a degree in Comparative Literature. He is currently working for Princeton's East Asian Studies department, and hopes to study more literature and theology at some point in the future. As a Christian, he is fully persuaded that the chief end of man is to love God and to enjoy him forever.

Gaston Ng
Gaston is a Hwa Chong prisoner secretly in love with Kundera and regret. Royksopp, twilight, Four Tet and vodka are his reasons for living.

Jal Nicholl
Jal Nicholl is a poet living in Melbourne, Australia. His work has previously appeared in the journals Shampoo, Stylus, Famous Reporter and Dotlit.

Lincoln O`Neill
Lincoln O'Neill lives in Wellington, New Zealand. He has been published in New Zealand and in the UK, the US, South Africa, India, Austria and Australia.

Stephen Oliver
Stephen Oliver is the author of six collections of poetry, including a selected, Night of Warehouses: Poems 1978-2000. Recently published: a poetry chapbook, Deadly Pollen (2003), and Ballads, Satire & Salt – A Book of Diversions (2003); a new collection called Either Side The Horizon is due in 2005. Work has also been recently published in Alba, Comet, Fire, Kitchen Sink, Pemmican, Orbis and Samsara Quarterly, among others. Stephen is a transtasman poet and writer who lives in Sydney.

Miguel Jaime Ongpin
No information available.

Stephen Pain
Stephen Pain is an Anglo-American writer currently based in Paris. He has been published in several magazines both offline and online. Once upon a time he lived in Bukit Timah and has fond memories of Singapore. He is also the founder of a new methodology, biorhetorics.

Ruby Pan
Ruby Pan is an 19-year-old student of English Literature and Theatre Studies at Princeton University.

Alvin Pang
Alvin Pang is the author of two Straits Times Top Ten Books of the Year : Testing The Silence (1997), and City of Rain (2003). A first class honours graduate in Literature from the University of York, he is also an Honorary Fellow in Writing with the University of Iowa's International Writing Program (2002). He is also co-editor of No Other City: The Ethos Anthology of Urban Poetry and Love Gathers All: A Singapore-Filippino Love Poetry Anthology.

Yongsoo Park
Yongsoo Park is a filmmaker and novelist from New York City. He wrote and directed the seminal Asian American indie feature film Free Country (1996) and is the author of the novels Boy Genius (2002) and Las Cucarachas (2004).

Stephen Derwent Partington
Stephen Derwent Partington teaches in Kenya.

Rajeev Patke
Rajeev Patke has published essays and reviews on English writing from Singapore locally and overseas, including a selective bibliography of criticism on the topic for Singapore Studies II (1999). He teaches literature at the NUS.

Pek Wen Jie
Pek Wen Jie is a 16-year-old boy studying at Raffles Institution. Fascinated with the written word, he alternates between computer games, slacking off school, and toying around with random plot ideas that come to him.

Francis Phang
Francis is a dancer who has represented NUS in the 1st Asia-Pacific Competition, in which NUS beat China & the Philippines to emerge champion.

Mark Pirie
Mark Pirie is the Managing Editor for HeadworX, a small press publisher of poetry/fiction. His poems have been published in India, New Zealand, Australia, Croatia, the US and the UK. He is an editor of JAAM (New Zealand), the contributing New Zealand editor for papertiger, and the author of Gallery A Selection.

Wena Poon
Wena Poon was born in Singapore in 1974. After graduating from Harvard Law School, she has worked as a lawyer, an editor, and a freelance journalist. Her fiction was published in 2002 by Penguin in The Merlion and the Hibiscus: Contemporary Short Stories from Singapore and Malaysia.

Gilbert Wesley Purdy
Gilbert Wesley Purdy’s work in poetry, prose and translation has appeared in many journals, paper and electronic, including: Jacket (Australia); The Pedestal Magazine; Poetry International (San Diego State University); Grand Street; SLANT (University of Central Arkansas); and Eclectica. His Hyperlinked Online bibliography appears in the pages of the Catalyzer Journal.

Mohammad A Quayum
Mohammad Quayum is a professor in the Department of English Language and Literature of the International Islamic University Malaysia.

Gabriel Ra
Gabriel was born in thirty-one cycles of the sun ago and now lives in an undisclosed place in Asia.

Sheo S. Rai
Sheo S. Rai is a public relations consultant who holds an honours degree in political science from the National University of Singapore.

Mani Rao
Mani Rao is a poet based in Hong Kong. She has written six books of poetry: Wingspan, Catapult Season, Living Shadows, The Last Beach, Salt and Echolocation.

Robert Raymer
Robert Raymer's short stories have appeared in The Literary Review, Thema, London Magazine, Staple, Paris Transcontinental, Northern Perspective and Best of Silverfish 2001-2005. He has been teaching a creative writing course in Malaysia at the university level since 1996 and was the editor for Silverfish New Writings 4 (2004). Lovers and Strangers, a collection of short stories set in Malaysia and Singapore, was published by Heinemann Asia (1993) and Lovers and Strangers Revisited by Silverfish (2006).

Devika Rege
Devika Rege was born in India and currently resides in Mumbai

G.J. Reynolds
G.J. Reynolds is teaching and writing in Tunisia on a Fulbright grant.

Ron Riddell
Ron Riddell is a New Zealand poet and festival director of the Wellington International Poetry Festival.

John Rothfork
John Rothfork's criticism has also appeared in the Canadian journal, Mosaic; a French anthology on Ishiguro’s work; and the journal Commentary, published by the National University of Singapore; among others. He has also had the pleasure of teaching for the University of Maryland in Kuala Lumpur.

Daniel de Roulet
Daniel de Roulet was born in 1944 in Geneva. Writing in both French and German, he represents two major neighbouring Swiss cultures. His recent novels are published in Paris and carry the motifs of running and the colour blue: The Blue Line, The Blue Century and Grey-Blue. He has also published an autobiography Double, in 1998. Daniel de Roulet lives in Frasne, France.

Jeremy Samuel
Jeremy Samuel is a visitor to our planet. Buy him a drink if you see him.

Leonard Schwartz
Leonard Schwartz is the author of several collections of poetry, including Words Before The Articulate: New and Selected Poems (Talisman House). He is also the author of A Flicker at The Edge Of Things: Essays on Poetics (Spuyten Duvyil) and co-editor of two anthologies: Primary Trouble: An Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry and An Anthology of New (American) Poetry, both from Talisman House. In recent years he has read from his work at universities, conferences, and festivals in Portugal, Turkey, Russia, France, China, and Peru, as well as in the United States. He lives on the Pacific Northwest.

Anne Seah
Anne Seah is currently a Master’s student in English Literature at the National University of Singapore.

Leon Shann
Leon Shann lives in Australia.

Shazanah Hassan
Shazanah Hassan is eighteen.

Daren Shiau
An alumnus of the East-West Center, Daren is a novelist, poet, conservationist and lawyer. The National Arts Council's Young Artist of the Year (Literature) in 2002, Shiau has been selected by The Arts Magazine as one of its 10 New Arts Talents to Watch. Shiau's debut novel Heartland received the Singapore Literature Prize Commendation Award in 1998 and was voted one of the best fiction reads of the year by the Straits Times in 1999. His other writings include a collection of poems, Peninsular (2002) and a trade monograph, Communication and the Environment (2000). A recipient of the Singapore Youth Award 2000 (Community Service) from Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong, Daren was the Outstanding Young Person of Singapore in 2000.

Sameera Siddiqe
Sameera is an undergraduate studying English Literature (Hons) at the Nanyang Technological University of Singapore. Nietzsche is a main influence in her life and her works possibly have an uncanny resemblance to his nihilistic principles.

Kevin Simmonds
Kevin Simmonds is a writer and musician from New Orleans presently on a Fulbright in Singapore. His writing has appeared in various places, including Massachusetts Review, Poetry, and FIELD, and his music has been performed in the US, Japan, and the Caribbean.

Chris Mooney Singh
Chris Mooney Singh, b. Canberra, 1956, is an poet, writer, editor, Eastern musical heritage revivalist and now Singaporean PR. He has published 3 joint collections and an individual collection of poetry The House of Winter. He edited the Penguin Book of Christmas Poems in 1992. Fish Factory a libretto for contemporary opera was performed at the Adelaide Festival Theatre in 1996. He has also produced two CDs, one of which Indian City is a poetry/music fusion recorded in India and released in Singapore in 1997.

Madeleine Marie Slavick
Madeleine Marie Slavick's books include Round - Poems and Photographs of Asia (1998) and two non-fiction books on China. Her postcardbook COLORing words (with poems translated into Chinese by Zheng Danyi) grew into an exhibition with over 200 artists and writers of all ages in 2002 and then into the e-book colo(u)r. Her poetry appears in various journals, chapbooks and exhibitions and in three Hong Kong-published anthologies: City Voices - Hong Kong Writing in English, OutLoud - An Anthology of Poetry from OutLoud Readings and Racial Minorities in Hong Kong.

Matt Smith
Matt Smith lives in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA, with a wife and five dogs. Matt is also an accomplished juggler.

Ronny Someck
Ronny Someck has published eight volumes of poetry, the latest titled Revolution Drummer. His works have been translated into 31 languages including Arabic, French, Catalan, Albanian, Italian and English (The Fire Stays In Red).

Neha Sood
Neha Sood recently graduated from the University of Southern California with a BA in International Relations. She moved back to Singapore from LA in May and is currently a Marketing Executive with Universitas 21 Global. She loves poetry and enjoys both reading (mostly Neruda) and writing in her spare time.

James Stark
A Seattle resident, James Stark has had work published in various literary ezines, such as Southern Ocean Review, SNReview, Wordriot, Istanbul Literary Magazine, and Lochraven review.

Ray Succre
Ray Succre is 29 and currently lives in Coos Bay, Oregon, USA. He is recently married, has just become a father, and loves the south coast. Ray has published in numerous publications in England, Scotland, Canada, Finland, and throughout the United States, as well as in many online magazines.

Bryan Swan
Bryan Swan lives in Iowa City.

Adrianna Tan
Adrianna Tan is a poet by night, and student when it occurs to her. In the pursuit of that One Certificate she relies on running, music (heavy metal mostly, jazz, and most forms of rock), the study of the Korean language, rugby and poetry to keep her sane. She guards her gourmet coffee jealously, for there is nothing better than a caffeine fix.

Jean Tan
Jean Tan is a Lit Masters student who is really only good for pursuits that make no money, such as painting doll faces, drawing dodgy pin-ups, and penning acerbic football punditry.

Amy Tan
A fan of Jeanette Winterson, Amy Tan explores new ways of writing and builds puzzles during her spare time.

Paul Tan
Paul Tan Kim Liang has published three volumes of verse. Curious Roads (1994) and Driving into Rain (1998) won prizes at the Singapore Literature Prize competitions. His most recent collection is first meeting of hands (2006). His writings have appeared in publications like The Straits Times, The New Straits Times and Commentary.

Tan Kok Meng
Tan Kok Meng is an architect and freelance writer / editor practising in Shanghai.

Tan Wee Cheng
Wee Cheng lives and works in the financial sector. He enjoys travel and has just returned from his 110th country, North Korea.

Tan Hwee Hwee
Tan Hwee Hwee (also known as Hwee Hwee Tan), had her first book, Foreign Bodies, published by Michael Joseph (a Penguin imprint) in 1997. Her second novel, Mammon Inc., a cutting satire of our times, was released in July 2001. She has won numerous awards, including a New York Times Fellowship for Fiction for her MFA in Creative Writing at New York University.

Amos Tang
Amos was born in Shanghai in 1980 and currently studies Materials Engineering in Nanyang Technological University. An afficionado of contemporary pop music who has a large collection of CDs and is insatiable in terms of music, he has been following artists like Amon Tobin, Jimi Tenor, Bjork and Cocteau Twins for years now. He has submitted reviews for amazon.com for the past two years.

Eddie Tay
Eddie Tay is the author of the poetry collections Remnants and A Lover's Soliloquy. He teaches literature in a university in Hong Kong.

Thomas Lowe Taylor
Thomas Lowe Taylor lives in southwestern Washington State on the Long Beach Peninsula and copublishes Xtant Magazine with Jim Leftwich. His latest books are A Mandala for her of the earth's whole place and name and The One, the Same, and the Other. He has work online in Word for Word, eratio, samsara, Xpressd, MPRSND, tin lustre mobile, 5 trope and Moria.

Teng Qian Xi
Teng Qian Xi will soon be finishing her final year at Columbia University, where she majors in comparative literature. She has been a Simon Elvin Young Poet of the Year Awards winner in 2000 and in 2001. At present she is freelancing as a writer, publicist and translator. Her first collection will be published later this year.

Sharlene Teo
Sharlene Teo is a student in Anglo-Chinese Junior College. Her current favourite poets are Anne Michaels and Carol Ann Duffy.

Terry Teo
Terry Teo is currently serving the government as a dental officer. He hopes that he will never forget how to write.

Tham Yoke Peng
Tham Yoke Peng is a Singaporean living in London.

Bryan Thao Worra
Laotian American poet Bryan Thao Worra has worked extensively in areas of Southeast Asian refugee resettlement and the arts. A freelance literary arts reporter for Asian American Press, he currently lives in Saint Paul.

David Thian Wen Hao
David Thian (b. 1984) is an undergraduate at Duke University. He is a double-major in Economics and English, and is obviously torn between pragmatism and having to live in a cardboard box by the side of a road. In his spare time, he sings with an a cappella group.

Tom Thompson
Tom Thompson lives on Bainbridge Island, near Seattle. He is not permitted by his attorneys to discuss the inspiration for his completely fictional story, and, therefore, he will not do so.

Thow Xin Wei
Xin Wei is trying to avoid growing up. Besides that, he dabbles in writing.

Toh Hsien Min
Hsien Min is the founding editor of QLRS, and the author of Iambus (1994), The Enclosure of Love (2001) and Means to an End (2008). His work has also been published in such periodicals as Acumen, Atlanta Review, London Magazine, the London Review of Books and Poetry Ireland Review. Hsien Min read English Literature at Oxford University, emerging with first-class honours and master's degrees. He is a former President of the Oxford University Poetry Society, where he ran his first journal.

Amos Toh
Amos graduated from Victoria Junior College in 2005. He prefers the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.

Davide Trame
An Italian teacher of English writing poems exclusively in English since 1993, Davide hasbeen published in around one hundred literary magazines since 1999, in the UK, the USA and elsewhere. He lives in Venice, Italy.

John Tranter
Australian poet John Tranter has published nearly twenty books, including The Floor of Heaven, At The Florida, Late Night Radio, Ultra and Heart Print, as well as a book of computer-assisted short stories, Different Hands. He co-edited the Penguin Book of Modern Australian Poetry (1991), published in Britain and the US as the Bloodaxe Book of Modern Australian Poetry. He is also the editor of the pace-setting Internet literary magazine Jacket.

Susan Tsang
Susan Tsang works as a journalist.

Tsjeng Zhi Ying
Tsjeng Zhiying was born in 1988. She lives in Singapore, but studies in England. She has been published in Blindspot, and her poetry has been performed in Singapore.

Barnard Turner
Barnard Turner is Associate Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at the National University of Singapore, where he has taught since 1989. He writes mostly on contemporary literature, theatre and film, and travels as and when he can.

Peter Vaudry-Brown
Peter Vaudry-Brown lives and teaches in Mississippi. Recently, he was a Fulbright Lecturer for one year in Asuncion, Paraguay, where he tranlated Roberto Drummond's collection of stories: The Death of DJ in Paris. He is currently finishing work on a translation of one of Drummond's novels, Hilda Furacão. He has previously published in Third Coast, Segue, the Mississippi Review, and the Georgetown Review.

Jerry Vilhotti
Jerry Vilhotti writes short-short stories, storellas, literary précis and tonepoems.

Tamara S. Wagner
Tamara S. Wagner completed her PhD at the University of Cambridge in 2002 and is currently assistant professor of English Literature at the School of Humanities & Social Sciences (HSS) at NTU in Singapore. Her recent publications include Longing: Narratives of Nostalgia in the British Novel, 1740-1890 (2004) and Occidentalism in Novels of Malaysia and Singapore, 1819-2004: Colonial and Postcolonial Financial Straits (2005).

Irian Way
Malaysian-born Irian Way spent some of his best years studying in Singapore, an experience that secretly sharpened the national inferiority complex no-one talks about. He is currently soothing his ego while reading undergraduate law.

Jason Wee
Jason Wee is currently completing a two-year Masters programme in Fine Arts at Parsons School of Design (New York), specialising in photography and related technologies on a Shell-NAC Scholarship.

Ramesh William
With his fetish for chunky specs and trucker caps, Ramesh William is a former football journalist whose work once earned him a nomination for a national award. He presently works as a copywriter.

Cyril Wong
Cyril is the author of Squatting Quietly, The End Of His Orbit, below: absence and unmarked treasure.

Nicholas Wong Yoke Hin
Nicholas was the recipient of the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award (2006) and the Singapore Young Dramatists Award (2005). He was also Head of Hwa Chong LitWing.

Wong Yunjie
Wong Yunjie discovered a love for conceptual brilliance and lilt in writing as a student at the National University of Singapore and its University Scholars Programme. He majored in Political Science.

Kirby Wright
Kirby Wright was born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii. Before the City, Kirby's first book of poetry, took First Place at the 2004 San Diego Book Awards. Punahou Blues, his coming of age novel set in Honolulu, will be released by Lemon Shark Press in Summer 2005.

Arthur Yap
Arthur Yap (1943-2006) is widely acknowledged as one of Singapore's top poets. His first collection of poems, Only Lines, was published in 1971, for which he received the National Book Development Council of Singapore's first award for poetry. His subsequent collections of verse included man snake apple and other poems and commonplace. In 1983, he was awarded the prestigious Southeast Asia Write Award in Bangkok and the Cultural Medallion for Literature in Singapore. He was also a prolific painter. His selected, the space of city trees: selected poems, was released by Skoob Books in 2000.

Angeline Yap
Angeline Yap, wife, lawyer, writer, mother of three, started writing during her Convent schooldays and has had her poems translated into Mandarin and Tamil, as well as set to music and sung by choirs in Singapore and internationally. She has contributed poems to various anthologies since the 1970s, including, more recently, More Than Half The Sky, Memories & Desires, No Other City and Love Gathers All.

Stephanie Ye
Stephanie Shulin Ye was born in 1982. She writes to live and lives to write.

Gerard Yee
Gerard Yee teaches General Paper and attempts to do some serious reading between his marking.

Yeo Yen Ping
Yeo Yen Ping is a public librarian.

Yeo Wei Wei
Yeo Wei Wei is a writer, teacher and the head of Literature in English and Theory Of Knowledge at the Singapore Arts School. Previously she was a lecturer in the Department of English Language and Literature at the National University of Singapore.

Robert Yeo
Robert is a playwright, whose works include Are You There, Singapore? (1974), One Year Back Home (1980) and The Adventures of Holden Heng (1986). He has also published poetry, with his selected, Leaving Home, Mother, appearing in 1999.

Yeow Kai Chai
A Master of Arts graduate in English Literature from the National University of Singapore, Yeow Kai Chai is Assistant to Editor and music reviewer in Life!, The Straits Times. He won first prize in poetry for two years at the NUS Literary Society Competition. His debut book, Secret Manta, was published in 2001 and was adapted from a collection shortlisted for the 1995 Singapore Literature Prize. He is currently an editor of QLRS.

Debbie Yong
Debbie Yong, 21, is a born-and-bred Singaporean who is now an English Literature major at the University of Pennsylvania in the States. She is an aspiring writer, a budding photographer and a poor victim of the travel bug.

Yong Shu Hoong
Shu Hoong is the author of Isaac, Isaac Revisited and dowhile, and the co-ordinator for the monthly subTEXT readings at the Book Café.

Yong Mang Kang
Yong Mang Kang is a Singaporean living in the USA.

Daniel Yu
No information available.

Grey Yuen Yew Kuen
No information available.

Zia Zaman
Born in Karachi, Zia has lived in Montreal, Boston, London, San Francisco and Singapore. Zia holds a Bachelor's and Master's of Science from MIT and an MBA from Stanford. In his business career, he has worked as an engineer, a management consultant, a mergers and acquisitions specialist and a venture capitalist. Zia is the author of the travel book Losing Oneself in Remote Asia. His work has also appeared in Chance, Rivative, Undershorts, Cherrybleeds, Novelists Abroad, Hackwriters and other litzines.

Michael Zeller
Michael Zeller is the author of Follen's Heritage: A German (Hi)Story (1986), The Man Who Comes Again (1990), Café Europa (1994), and Kropp: A Revenge (1996), as well as many short stories, essays, and poems. He has been writer-in-residence at New York University and artist-in-residence at the University of Erfurt/Thuringia.

Bianca Zen
Bianca Zen writes for Ad Planet Group and ISH Magazine. She has recently won an award by SPH for the best advertising campaign for April 2005.

Zhang Ruihe
In her secret other life, Ruihe is a teacher with an unreasonable conviction that literature matters.

Zhuang Yisa
Zhuang Yisa lives in Singapore. His poetry has been published or forthcoming in Yuan Yang (Hong Kong), ditch (Canada), The Salt River Review, Eight Octaves, Houston Literary Review, Red River Review, and SubtleTea, amongst others. He also reviews for The Substation Magazine, an online arts journal based in Singapore.

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