Adam Aitken is the author of three major collections of poetry and a scholar/practitioner of Asian-Australian literature. He lectures in Creative Writing at the University of Technology, Sydney.
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Agnes Lam is an Associate Professor at the University of Hong Kong. Her research interests include: multilingualism, language education in China and Asian poetry in English. She has published two poetry collections. Her work has also been published in journals and anthologies in several countries.
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Alexandra Pearson has been living and working in Beijing since 1992. In 2003 she established The Bookworm Group, a bookshop/library/café/event space, which she now runs in three cities in China - Beijing, Chengdu and Suzhou.
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Alvin Pang is a Singaporean poet and editor, whose works include Testing the Silence, City of Rain, and several anthologies and websites. He has been featured in major festivals and publications around the world. His latest project is an anthology of poems from Singapore and Australia, in collaboration with John Kinsella.
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Bernabe ("Abe") Barreto Soares is a poet currently working as an interpreter/ translator for the UN Peacekeeping Mission, UNMIT, in Timor-Leste. He has published two collections of poetry, Menari Menggelilingi Planet Bumi ("Dancing around the Planet Earth") and Come With Me Singing in a Choir.
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berni m janssen is a writer/performer and convenor of the Asia and Pacific Writers Network. She is also a committee member of Melbourne PEN.
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Bruce Pascoe is a writer and publisher who produced the quarterly Australian Short Stories for 16 years. He has published over 20 novels, histories, children's books and indigenous language dictionaries. His most recent book, Convincing Ground, has been received with great enthusiasm. He lives at Gipsy Point and has a Bunurong heritage.
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Christopher (Kit) Kelen is an Associate Professor at the University of Macau where he teaches Literature and Creative Writing. He has published eight volumes of poetry.
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David Whish-Wilson is a novelist who teaches creative writing, currently returning from lecturing at the University of the South Pacific, Fiji, to teach at the Centre for Aboriginal Studies, Curtin University, Western Australia.
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Deepika Shetty is an avid reader and blogger (readatpeace.blogspot.com). For many years she produced a weekly book segment, Off The Shelf for Channel NewsAsia, a TV station. She is presently a journalist for the Straits Times in Singapore. She is a popular moderator at literary festivals throughout Asia.
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Eddin Khoo is a poet, writer, journalist and translator. He is Founder and Director of the cultural organisation Pusaka and Principal Editor of Kala – a publishing house in Malaysia dedicated to literary translation.
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Frank Stewart is a writer, translator, editor, and educator. He is a professor of English at the University of Hawaii, president of The Manoa Foundation, and editor of Manoa: A Pacific Journal of International Writing, published since 1989 by the University of Hawai'i Press.
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Harry Aveling is currently Extra Ordinary Professor of Translation Studies in the Faculty of Humanities, University of Indonesia. He has translated extensively from Indonesian and Malay for over three decades.
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Isagani R. Cruz is a Filipino playwright, critic, biographer, short story writer, and columnist. His plays, essays, and short stories in Filipino and English have won numerous awards, including the Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards in Literature Hall of Fame and the SEAWRITE.
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Jeni Caffin is Director of the Byron Bay Writers Festival and Northern Rivers Writers Centre, in northern New South Wales.
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Jose Dalisay Jr teaches English and Creative Writing at the University of the Philippines, where is has also served as chair of the Department of English and Comparative Literature and Vice President for Public Affairs. His second novel, Soledad's Sister, was shortlisted for the 2007 Man Asian Literary Prize.
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Julianne Schultz is the founding editor of Griffith REVIEW, an Australian quarterly of ideas and fine writing, and a professor at Griffith University’s Centre for Public Culture and Ideas. Among her published works are: Reviving the Fourth Estate (CUP) and Steel City Blues (Penguin). She has written librettos for two operas, Black River and Going into Shadows.
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Kunal Basu is the author of three novels, The Opium Clerk, The Miniaturist, and Racists, and a collection of short stories, The Japanese Wife, the lead story of which is being made into a film by India's leading director, Aparna Sen. He teaches at Oxford University.
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Lawrence Gray is chairman of the Hong Kong Writers’ Circle. He is a screenwriter with credits in the UK and Asian TV and films. He short stories have been published widely in South East Asia.
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Leung Ping-kwan writes fiction and has published a novel and four collections of stories, among them Islands and Continents has English and French translation. He has published over ten volumes of poems, including bilingual editions such as City at the End of Time and Travelling with a Bitter Melon. He teaches literature and film at Lingnan University and has published critical works on Hong Kong culture and cinema.
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Libby Southwell is the Director of Sri Lanka’s new Galle Literary Festival. She moved to Sri Lanka in 2003 after a successful career in advertising. Her first book was Monsoon Rains and Icicle Drops, written with Josephine Brouard.
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Malashri Lal is Professor in the Department of English, University of Delhi, India. She has authored two books and edited eight books in the area of Women’s Writing, and has served on the international jury of the Commonwealth Writers Prize, London.
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Ponglada K. Ittimakin ("Panwadee") is a novelist, writer, columnist, translator, publisher, director of the Writers' Association of Thailand, and co-chairman (2005-2007) of the sub-committee dealing with copyright in Thailand. Her novel Winter Rose won seven book awards in Thailand in 2004 and has been translated into English.
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Raman Krishnan opened Silverfish Books, a bookshop in Kuala Lumpur. In 2000, Silverfish Books started publishing and in 2004 and 2007 organised the Kuala Lumpur International Literary Festival.
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Robin Hemley is a writer and Director of Creative Nonfiction at the University of Iowa. He also teaches at Vermont College and is partner in Authors at Large.
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Rosario Cruz-Lucero sets her fiction in the sugar plantations of Negros island in central Philippines. She has won national awards for her short stories and essays. Her major publications are Feast and Famine, Herstory, and The Nation Outside Manila.
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Shelley Kenigsberg is an editor, writer and trainer and the current Chair of the Australian Institute of Professional Editors Accreditation Board.
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Stephen Muecke is a writer, editor, ex-publisher and Professor of Cultural Studies at the University of Technology, Sydney. He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities.
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Vicente Garcia Groyon teaches with the Department of Communication at De La Salle University-Manila. His novel, The Sky over Dimas, and a collection of stories, On Cursed Ground and Other Stories, both received the Manila Critics Circle National Book Award.
