Ryan Foo is an undergraduate reading the liberal arts at Yale-NUS College. I stopped. 1. I stopped going to church at 17. All my life, the link seemed tenuous, Jesus didn’t hold on too tight and I hardly snapped along to gospel anyway. They were strumming different chords to mine, really. Earlier, the holy ghost of a girl had led her hips and lips to mine, spectral...
Juli Min is the Editor in Chief of The Shanghai Literary Review. TSLR is a biannual print magazine of fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and translation, and its editors split time between New York and Shanghai. TSLR accepts submissions year-round and hosts a monthly open mic night in Shanghai. For more information about events and submissions, please visit www.shanghailiterary.com Min also co-founded...
Lian Hai Guang is currently a postgraduate at Nanyang Technological University’s (NTU) Masters of Translation and Interpretation (MTI) Program, located in Singapore. He can be reached at lianhaiguang@gmail.com.
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SHELLY BRYANT divides her year between Shanghai and Singapore, working as a poet, writer, and translator. She is the author of eight volumes of poetry (Alban Lake and Math Paper Press), a pair of travel guides for the cities of Suzhou and Shanghai (Urbanatomy), and a book on classical Chinese gardens (Hong Kong University Press). She has translated work from the Chinese for Penguin Books, Epigram...
Within Singapore, Verena Tay (www.verenatay.com) has published two short story collections, Spectre (2012) and Spaces (2016), and four play collections, and edited twelve fiction anthologies, including Math Paper Press’ popular Balik Kampung series. She is now working on her first novel as part of her PhD studies in Creative Writing at Swansea University. relations blocked* woman...
Luis Morales-Navarro (莫路) is a writer/coder interested in natural language processing, computational literature, networked physical computing, poetry and speculative fiction. Currently he is a Resident Research Fellow at New York University Shanghai. Nongfu Spring Clusters of dust blossom with the winter In my body there are kegs of Chinese beer I inhale blue-white air Walls drip sweat and all...
Cyril Wong is the author of The Lover’s Inventory, and other works of poetry and fiction in Singapore. On Universality Ben Lerner writes in The Hatred of Poetry, “Everybody can write a poem,” and asks if “the distillation of your innermost being … [can] make a readership, however small, a People …?” Maybe because I’m not American or because I was never a...
Miho Kinnas was re-transplanted from Shanghai to Carolina. She struggles with non-metric units but is beginning to carry on with writerly activities. Her poetry collection Today Fish Only was published by Math Paper Press in 2015, and her work also appears in The Classical Gardens of Shanghai (HKU Press 2016) and Quixoteca: Poems East of La Mancha (Chameleon Press 2016). Her translations have...
SHELLY BRYANT divides her year between Shanghai and Singapore, working as a poet, writer, and translator. She is the author of eight volumes of poetry (Alban Lake and Math Paper Press), a pair of travel guides for the cities of Suzhou and Shanghai (Urbanatomy), and a book on classical Chinese gardens (Hong Kong University Press). She has translated work from the Chinese for Penguin Books, Epigram...
BRANDON MARLON is a writer from Ottawa, Canada. He received his B.A. in Drama & English from the University of Toronto and his M.A. in English from the University of Victoria. His poetry was awarded the Harry Hoyt Lacey Prize in Poetry (Fall 2015), and his writing has been published in 170+ publications in 23 countries. www.brandonmarlon.com. Shanghai Ghetto Destitute refugees craving...