Goh Beng Choo (吴明珠), 70, is a bilingual writer and translator. She has published 10 books in English translation, including A Man Like Me, an award-winning novel by Yeng Pway Ngon (英培安). She writes occasionally for 源 – a Chinese community magazine. Trivialities about Me and Yeng Pway Ngon (1英培安1947-2021) I first met Pway Ngon when I was 16. Then a Sec. 4 student at St. Nicholas...
Born and raised in Hong Kong, Cleo Adler holds a B.A. in English and an M.A. in Comparative Literature. She writes poetry, essays, and reviews about travel and introspection, memory, and music. Published in Cha: An Asian Literary Journal, Voice and Verse Poetry Magazine, Tentacle Poetry, and Literary Shanghai. She works between archives and libraries. Three Questions ‘L’ is a sly...
Publisher: STAJER GRAF, Zagreb, Hrvatska (Croatia) Editors: Emiko Miyashita, Geethanjali Rajan, Marina Bellini, Dejan Pavlinocić, Sanela Pliško, Tomislav Maretić. Price: 18 € (135kn) ** A new book of haiku, “Night Jasmine” by Goran Gatalica, is a book of concentration. Not only because haiku is the art of close attention, but clearly, tremendous efforts and coordination...
Pow Jun Kai is a cultural historian, producer and translator. His research interests lie in gender, media and technology in twentieth-century South East Asia. He is published in South East Asia Research, Transgender Studies Quarterly and Trans Asia Photography. His translation of Soon Ai Ling’s short stories are forthcoming in Chinese Literature and Thought Today and Quarterly Literary Review...
Amanda has lived in Singapore, the United Kingdom, China and Taiwan. She has a BA (Hons) in Chinese and Development Studies from SOAS, University of London, and an MFA in Art and Design. She has taught English and creative writing for over ten years. She is also a Chinese-English translator, as well as chief storyteller to her son. She was a winner of the 2022 Writing the City Showcase...
Yuan Changming hails with Allen Yuan from poetrypacific.blogspot.ca. Credits include 12 Pushcart nominations & 14 chapbooks, most recently Homelanding. Besides appearances in Best of the Best Canadian Poetry (2008-17), BestNewPoemsOnline & Poetry Daily, Yuan served on the jury and was nominated for Canada’s National Magazine Awards (poetry category). A Triword Poem: for Qi...
“They Called You Dambudzo” is a memoir by Flora Veit-Wild, Emerita Professor of African Literatures and Cultures at Humboldt University, Berlin. She was born in West Germany in 1947. “Dambudzo” was Dambudzo Marechera, a novelist and poet, an enfant terrible of modern literature, born in Southern Rhodesia in 1952. With their two young boys, Flora and her husband Victor...
Carlo Rey Lacsamana is a Filipino born and raised in Manila, Philippines. Since 2005, he has been living and working in the Tuscan town of Lucca, Italy. He regularly contributes to journals in the Philippines, writing politics, culture, and art. His works have been published in magazines in the U.S., Canada, the U.K., Germany, Scotland, The Netherlands, Australia, India, and Mexico. Visit...
DS Maolalai has received nine nominations for Best of the Net and seven for the Pushcart Prize. His poetry has been released in three collections, “Love is Breaking Plates in the Garden” (Encircle Press, 2016), “Sad Havoc Among the Birds” (Turas Press, 2019) and Noble Rot (Turas Press, 2022). Machinery moves. lowering their winches, cranes toil and...
DS Maolalai has received nine nominations for Best of the Net and seven for the Pushcart Prize. His poetry has been released in three collections, “Love is Breaking Plates in the Garden” (Encircle Press, 2016), “Sad Havoc Among the Birds” (Turas Press, 2019) and Noble Rot (Turas Press, 2022). A settle of saturday morning breakfast with baker by fegans in the...