Palanisamy Subramanian is known as Subra among the Tamil writers and readers. He has won prizes awarded by the Singapore Tamil Writers Association for his short stories. He is also a 2-time receiver of the Golden Pen Award. Subra has published two collections of short stories and one collection of poetry.

Pan Cheng Lui is the current Lianhe Zaobao Senior Executive Editor, Head of Fukan Section as well as the Editor of Zaobao Sunday. His works include poetry anthologies “Tell it to theSun”, “Ropedancing on the Equator”, “the Tree of Rebirth”, “I, a Poet at the Crack of Dawn”; collection of essays “Look”, “Alop”; and prose anthology, “The Hour of Exchange”. Pan is also the chief editor for “Writers and their Rooms” and literary anthology “Four Corners Eight Planes”. He planned and published an audio book “30 Voices”. Apart from having his poetic work “The Ballad of the Rock” exhibited at MRT stations, his poetries have also been adapted into dance and musical performances.


Wena Poon is a Singapore citizen living and working in the United States. Poon has written many novels, short stories, reviews, screenplays and poems ever since she was a child. At seventeen, she left Singapore to study in the United States and graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Harvard University in 1995, with a degree in English Literature.

She received a J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1998 and is a practising member of the New York and California State Bars. Prior to her legal career, she worked in television distribution and freelanced as a foreign correspondent for Singapore and Malaysia newspapers and magazines.


Born in 1932
(Pseudonym: Puthumaithasan).Krishnan is a playwright, writer and radio producer and presenter. Since 1950 he has written 500 short stories, poems, essays and plays for stage, radio, television and journals. He gained fame in the mid- 1960s with the 52-episode comic radio play Adukku Veettu Annasamy, about people in public high-rise housing. It was later published as a book. He has dramatized Tamil classics and translated Shakespeare, Byron, Keats and George Orwell into Tamil. Some of Krishnan’s short stories have also been translated into English. He received the Merit Award from the National Book Development Council of Singapore in 1994, the Thamizhavel award in 1998 and the SEA Write Award in 2005.


Rajeev Patke has published essays and reviews on English writing from Singapore locally and overseas, including a selective bibliography of criticism on the topic for Singapore Studies II (1999). He teaches English Literature at the National University of Singapore.


Seamus grew up in Taipei and Singapore. Seamus published his first book in 1994, titled "Service Quality - The Enlightened Approach", and has since published numerous e-books, with one reaching a recommended buy on Amazon.com, titled 'The Internet Webmaster Logbook". He published his second printed book in 2002, titled "This Body This Life", together with his younger brother Ching Jung, an international bodybuilding champion. "This Body This Life" has been featured in The Edge Singapore, Woman's World, New Man, American Writer and NewsRadio 93.8 FM.

Seamus is a contributing editor to CMP Media in Asia, and has co-hosted radio and live television segments on TechTV in the USA. He has published hundreds of technical and business articles, for media such as CMP Media, Business 2.0, Business Times, and others. He is an accredited journalist with the American Society of Business Publication Editors and National Writers Union (USA), being the first Singaporean admitted to these professional bodies.


Dr. Pranav S. Joshi is a multitalented novelist, poet and an award winning environmental professional. He holds a Ph.D. degree in Chemistry and an M.Sc. degree in Environmental Engineering. His literary, multicultural novel, "Behind a Cultural Cage" depicts the life of a Chinese Indian man (a Chindian), who possesses an Indian mind and a Chinese body. Salining across the heterogeneous landscapes of Singapore, India, Malaysia, USA and China, the storyline unfolds the realities of migration and globalization, prompting the protagonist to think whether he is culturally a guinea pig! Pranav has also written numerous poetry, and also technical papers and manuals during his professional career. He maintains his website at http://lifecageint.googlepages.com