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Piyal Kariyawasam is a Sri Lankan writer, theatre activist, lecturer, and director of documentaries. Locally, he has won state awards for fiction and theatre. He has received international scholarships to U.S.A. and India. He represented Sri Lanka at the 1st China-South Asia Literature Forum, China, and at international events in Bhutan and Azerbaijan. He has published 5 works of fiction, as well...

Ren Jie writes poetry and fiction. He recently graduated from Yale-NUS College in Singapore, majoring in Literature and Creative Writing, and currently works at NYU Shanghai as a Global Writing and Speaking Fellow. In his writing, Ren Jie engages with and explores questions about culture, religiosity, and the experience and narratives that surround familial life.   Amnesia in the Forest of...

Ren Jie writes poetry and fiction. He recently graduated from Yale-NUS College in Singapore, majoring in Literature and Creative Writing, and currently works at NYU Shanghai as a Global Writing and Speaking Fellow. In his writing, Ren Jie engages with and explores questions about culture, religiosity, and the experience and narratives that surround familial life.   Three Business Days Abroad...

is called
(Was) ‘Revolutionary’.
distorted t shirt fronts
feet buried
in concrete.
 
words swallowed
self-help pills.
In bronze.
Syntax torn
from lingering
roots.
#.
sold.
 
bright plastic
petrochemical packaging.
sacred phrases
fired from
relentless rifled lips
by those who would have sunk the nails in
(Then).
 

JGeorge’s poems appear or is forthcoming in several online and print journals, most recently in Mookychick, The Initial Journal, Active Muse, TROU Lit Mag, Peach Street Mag, The Martian Chronicles, and FishfoodMag, and the anthologies Boundless (Rio Grande Valley International Poetry Festival 2019) and Love, As We Know It (Delhi Poetry Slam). She currently lives in Pondicherry, where she is...

JGeorge’s poems appear or is forthcoming in several online and print journals, most recently in Mookychick, The Initial Journal, Active Muse, TROU Lit Mag, Peach Street Mag, The Martian Chronicles, and FishfoodMag, and the anthologies Boundless (Rio Grande Valley International Poetry Festival 2019) and Love, As We Know It (Delhi Poetry Slam). She currently lives in Pondicherry, where she is...

Isabella Peralta is a writer, editor, and educator from the Philippines. Her work explores identity, diaspora, love, and belonging. As an advocate of racial and cultural diversity in literature and new media, she has worked for various literary organizations and platforms that champion underrepresented voices, including the Global Migrant Festival, Ayesha Pande Literary, and We Need Diverse Books...