Shen Xingzhou is a poet, playwright and artist. She has published one bilingual (Chinese and English) book of poems, Hui, in Hong Kong and Taiwan. Her script, Breathe Me, was adapted into a physical theatre by Hong Kong Youth Arts Foundation. In 2023, she wrote a solo act i我私 (iwowatashi) and performed in Yokohama International Performing Arts Meeting. Her poems and prose have appeared in many literary magazines and newspapers. As an artist, Xingzhou’s artwork is text based. Her art book The Boring Book has been exhibited in Institute of Contemporary Arts, Singapore; her handmade mini book 略 was shown in The 3rd Hong Kong Book Art Festival. Shen Xingzhou obtained her first master’s degree in visual culture studies from The Chinese University of Hong Kong, and her second master degree in Fine Arts at Goldsmiths, University of London.

 

Gale Acuff has had hundreds of poems published in a dozen countries and has authored three books of poetry. His poems have appeared in OF ZOOS, Ascent, Reed, Arkansas Review, Poem, Slant, Aethlon, Florida Review, South Carolina Review, Carolina Quarterly, Roanoke Review, Danse Macabre, Ohio Journal, Sou'wester, South Dakota Review, North Dakota Quarterly, New Texas, Midwest Quarterly, Poetry Midwest, Adirondack Review, Worcester Review, Adirondack Review, Connecticut River Review, Delmarva Review, Maryland Poetry Review, Maryland Literary Review, George Washington Review, Pennsylvania Literary Journal, Ann Arbor Review, Plainsongs, Chiron Review, George Washington Review, McNeese Review, Weber, War, Literature & the Arts, Poet Lore, Able Muse, The Font, Fine Lines, Teach.Write., Oracle, Hamilton Stone Review, Sequential Art Narrative in Education, Cardiff Review, Tokyo Review, Indian Review, Muse India, Bombay Review, Westerly, and many other journals. He hastaught tertiary English courses in the US, PR China, and Palestine.

 

E. R. Skulmoski was born in Vancouver and raised in Hong Kong. She lives in the Interior of British Columbia with her husband and four children. Her work has been published in Ekstasis, Vita Poetica, Voice & Verse, and elsewhere.

 

Colin James has poems recently in the poetry journals Pink Hydra and Slipshod Extension.

 

Alina Gregorian is an artist, poet, and designer based in Oslo, Norway. She curated and appeared in the exhibition Talk to me in Parsley and Tambourines: Artists of the Armenian Diaspora (Babycastles in New York), and her work has appeared in Roadmaps (AGBU Headquarters in Yerevan, Armenia). She is the author of two chapbooks—Navigational Clouds (Monk Books) and Flags for Adjectives (Diez). Her poetry can be found in Boston Review, BOMB Magazine, Brooklyn Poets Anthology, among other publications. https://alinagregorian.com/

 

Lananh Chu is a Vietnamese writer and maker. She/they stands in solidarity with the people of Palestine, Sudan, Congo, and any oppressed people.

 

Shaf Ghani is largely a prose writer and wordsmith. She has published works in English and her native tongue, Malay in various anthologies. She is an educator, by trade. Being also a mother of one, she is a staunch anti-Zionist and is always looking for local and global causes to find allyship with.

 

Burmese-Australian Boorloo-based entertainer Jake Dennis’s poetry has found publication in Singaporean-inspired publications SUSPECT, Galavant, and The Perks of Being Dumped. JD was awarded 2023’s Red Room Poetry #30in30 and a WAPI micro-residency. @PoetOfJazz is a Writing WA Emerging Writers Program 2024-25 recipient whose chapbooks The Exhibition and Gone were published by QPoetry. www.PoetOfJazz.com

 

Judith Huang is an Australian-based Singaporean author, poet, science fiction translator, serial-arts-collective-founder and multimedia artist. Her first novel, Sofia and the Utopia Machine, was shortlisted for the EBFP 2017 and Singapore Book Awards 2019. She was the founder of YAWP!, the longest-running performance poetry competition in Singapore (since 2004), a founding member of the Spittoon Collective in China which is now in 14 cities, and the co-founder of Chilli Jam Open Mic in Perth.

 

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 under the poet Katie Peterson. He has been writing since childhood and has been published in One Report: On Justice, 176 BE and Pareidolia Literary: Wunderkammer Vol 2. and Issue 12.1 PR (I) SE –OF ZOOS. He occasionally guest lectures for C.S. Giscombe at UC Berkeley on topics such as writing, tricksters and Chinese-demons. He was a Cal student of Robert Hass and Cecil Giscombe and a secondary reader at the Holloway Series of March 2022 with Thalia Field. He was born in Singapore to a Hainanese family of sailors and currently resides in Northern California. Spiders are his Gods.

 

Bill Wolak has published his eighteenth book of poetry entitled All the Wind’s Unfinished Kisses with Ekstasis Editions. His collages and photographs have appeared as cover art for such magazines as Phoebe, Harbinger Asylum, Baldhip Magazine, and Barfly Poetry Magazine.

 

Jiaqiao Liu is a poet from Shandong, China, who grew up in Tāmaki-makau-rau. They are working on a collection about memory, the self and the body, and Chinese mythology and robots. His work can be found in places such as ŌRONGOHAU | Best New Zealand Poems, The Spinoff, and Out Here: An anthology of Takatāpui and LGBTQIA+ writers from Aotearoa.

 

Euginia Tan is a Singaporean writer who writes poetry, creative non-fiction and plays. She enjoys cross-pollinating art into multidisciplinary platforms and reviving stories. Contact her at eugtan@hotmail.com.

 

Jack Xi (they/he) is a goat-headed fish-tailed giant sometimes ensconced within an alien throne called a “wheelchair”. They’ve appeared in several poetry journals, anthologies, and coastal city warning alerts. Find out more at jackxisg.wordpress.com.

 

Hebe Kearney (they/them) is a poet from Aotearoa/New Zealand. Their work has appeared in publications including: Mayhem, Overcom, Poetry Aotearoa Yearbooks, Starling, Sweet Mammalian, Symposia, takahē, Tarot, The Spinoff, and Turbine. They also make hand-cut collages and take photographs of ironic signage. They recently adopted a one-eyed kitten, and yearn for a therapy dog. You can find them @he__be on Instagram.

 

David C. Porter is a writer and photographer from the American northeast. He publishes short fiction twice monthly in Garden Scenery. His work has also appeared in various other concerns. His most recent book is Rat Beast, an epistolary novella. He can be reached on Twitter @toomuchistrue or via his website.

 

Winston Plowes teaches art and writing in schools and works with adult groups in Calderdale and beyond. He is based aboard his floating home near Hebden Bridge and his latest collection, Tales from the Tachograph was published jointly with Gaia Holmes in 2018 by Calder Valley Poetry. He receives regular advice from his friends and spiritual advisers, the Canada geese he calls Ringo and Maureen.