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Yu-Mei Balasingamchow is a writer and editor. Her scholarly work Singapore: A Biography, co-authored with Mark Ravinder Frost, received a gold prize at the 2010 Asia Pacific Publishers Association Awards and was named a 2010 Choice Outstanding Academic Title. Her short fiction was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize 2014. She is compiling In Transit, an anthology of Singaporean writing on airports and air travel, and completing her first novel, with funding from Singapore’s National Arts Council.
Kim Cheng Boey was born in Singapore and now teaches creative writing at the University of Newcastle in Australia. In 1989, his debut collection of poetry, Some where-Bound, won the National Book Development Council of Singapore Book Award. His collection Another Place received a Commendation Award, and Days of No Name a Merit Award in the Singapore Literature Prize competition. His other books include Between Stations, a collection of personal essays.
Shelly Bryant is a teacher, writer, researcher, and translator. She is the author of four volumes of poetry and two travel guides; the translator of Sheng Keyi’s novel Northern Girls and Chew Kok Chang’s short-story collection Other Cities, Other Lives; and the editor of a collection of speculative poetry, A Demon in My View.
Grace Chua is a journalist with the Straits Times. Her poems have been published in such journals as Quarterly Literary Review Singapore and Softblow, and anthologized in From Boys To Men. Her first collection of poetry, The Stamp Collector’s Wife, was published in 2010.
Dan Ying was born in Perak and educated in Malaysia, Taiwan, and the United States; she has lived in Singapore since the seventies. She is the author of five volumes of poetry, including Poems of Taiji and Time Passing Through My Hair. Her literary prizes include two National Book Development Council of Singapore Awards for poetry, the 1995 Southeast Asian Write Award, and the 1996 Cultural Medallion. She is a founding member of the May Poetry Society.
Jeffrey Greene is the author of four poetry collections, a memoir, and two nature books. A collection of his poems, dialogues, and prose pieces, Shades of the Other Shore, was published in 2013. A third nature book, on wild edibles, is forthcoming in 2015. He directs creative writing at the American University of Paris and teaches in the Pan-European MFA program. [End Page 220]
Philip Jeyaretnam is a fiction writer and a lawyer. His novel First Loves, published in Singapore in 1987, was a bestseller on Singapore’s Sunday Times book list. His other books include Raffles Place Ragtime, Abraham’s Promise, and Tigers in Paradise. He received Young Artist of the Year and Southeast Asian Write awards and was a fellow at the Iowa International Writers’ Program.
Khoo Seok Wan (1874–1941) was a literary scholar, poet, education reformist, political activist in revolutionary China, and community leader in Singapore. He produced over a thousand poems, as well as articles about Chinese literature and politics. The poems in this issue of Mänoa are from “Khoo Seok Wan: Poet and Reformist,” an exhibition organized by the Singapore National Library Board.
Amanda Lee Koe is a fiction writer, co-editor of Eastern Heathens, and author of a forthcoming collection of short stories, Ministry of Moral Panic. She is the fiction editor of Esquire Singapore, communications director at studio KALEIDO, editor of the creative nonfiction online magazine POSKOD, and co-editor of the literary journal Ceriph.
Jee Leong Koh is the author of four books of poems, including Seven Studies for a Self Portrait. His poetry has appeared in such journals as PN Review, Drunken Boat, Axon, and Quarterly Literary Review Singapore, and has been anthologized in New Poetries V and Villanelles. Born in Singapore, he lives in New York City, where he writes a blog and curates the website Singapore Poetry.
Desmond Kon is a former journalist who has traveled to Australia, France, Hong Kong, and Spain to research his fiction. His books include The Arbitrary Sign, I Didn’t Know Mani Was a Conceptualist, and Top Ten TCS Stars. The founding editor of Squircle Line Press, he has edited over ten books, co-produced...
