Sandra previously wrote for Female Magazine and later worked as a consultant before becoming a magazine editor. A retiree and mother of three millennials, she spends her time painting watercolours, battling an overgrown garden, critiquing Korean dramas and experimenting with traditional recipes in the kitchen.

Glenn’s first novel The Quiet Ones, about the call centre industry in the Philippines, won the Palanca Grand Prize and the Philippine National Book Award. His other work, including short fiction, poetry, and criticism, has been published internationally. He is currently pursuing doctoral studies at the University of Adelaide in South Australia.

Kathrina is an academic based in Brunei Darussalam, who teaches at Universiti Brunei Darussalam. She has published academic works on Bruneian literature, popular fiction and the representation of religion in literature. She is a co-founder of all-female theatre group Salted Egg Theatre, and was the director of the literary festival, Tiny Lit Fest, in 2019. Her first novel, The Fisherman King, was shortlisted for the 2020 Epigram Books Fiction Prize.

Muthu was born in Klang, Selangor, and began writing short stories and poetry after he read some stories in a cinema magazine. A former senior technician in Malaysia’s National Power Company, he started writing stories again after he retired. A grandfather of five, his short stories were published online and in the collection, Unmasked: Reflections on Virus-time.

Born in Phatthalung, Thailand, Wipas had several of his short stories published during his last year of medical studies at university. It was the final impetus he needed to become a full-time writer. He has since published four novels—the first of which, Khon Khrae (“The Dwarf”) won the S.E.A. Write Award in 2012. He has also published collections of short stories and poetry. Wipas also has a passion for the cinema, running and getting lost in nature.

Andre is the news editor at The New Paper and has been a journalist for 24 years. A father of four, he has written two books: the self-published collection Home: 50 50-word Stories To Celebrate Singapore's 50th Birthday, and the novel 9th of August, which was shortlisted for the 2017 Epigram Books Fiction Prize. Other than books, he is an ardent Lego fan and enjoys cooking.