Writer. Born 1972. B.A. English 1995, University of Alberta.

Publications
Short Fiction
Small Talk & Shock On The Metropolitan Transit System, 1991
Unpublished Magazine
Boxes, 1993
Dead Tree Product
Empty Interiors, 1996
On Spec Magazine

Novels
Shift,Tor Books, Tom Doherty Associates, LLC (publication pending 2003)
Broken Presences, Tor Books, Tom Doherty Associates, LLC (publication pending 2004)

Miscellaneous
Advertising & web copy writing
Magazine articles for FHM, I-S Magazine, ETC, Her World, Cleo and others
Scripts for corporate video
Planet Ex, NRG, Art Beat, Singapore Arts Fest, Whole New Game Plan, Peninsula Road Trip, Makansutra
Literary Agent
Sternig & Byrne Literary Agency http://www.sff.net/people/jackbyrne/


Peter Schoppert is a publisher, editor and writer based in Singapore since the mid-1980s when he arrived on a Fulbright to study Singapore politics. He has since turned his attention to more joy-filled subjects like art, design and landscape, and has contributed to local and regional publications, including Art and Asia-Pacific, and Vehicle. He is the author of Java Style, published in the UK by Thames & Hudson, in the USA by Tuttle and in France by Editions du Pacifique. He maintains a weblog and database on public art, in Singapore and around the world, which can be found at http://www.nusantara.com/pasta.


David Seow was born and raised in Singapore. He studied at Anglo-Chinese School, Oregon Episcopal School and the University of Portland, Oregon. After a stint as a sitcom writer with an award-winning television series, he embarked on a career in children’s literature.

David is the author of twenty-three well-received children’s books, including The Sam, Sebbie and Di-Di-Di Series (12 books), which feature his young niece and nephews as the main characters. Other titles written by David include Alexander's Adventure Machine and The Littlest Emperor. His latest books are "There's Soup on My Fly!" and "Blow A Kiss".


Sharifah Dora is currently undertaking her bachelor’s degree in Creative Writing at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia. She decided to pursue a degree in writing when she realised that she loved writing, especially writing for kids. Her first book The Boy with the Crumpled Tees is one of the 14 books under the First-Time Writers & Illustrators Publishing Initiative Jointly organised by the National Book Development Council of Singapore and the Media Development Authority.


Born in 1965
Sharma is Resident Playwright of The Necessary Stage (TNS), and co-Artistic Director of the M1 Singapore Fringe Festival. Sharma, who has a Masters degree in playwriting from the University of Birmingham, has written over 50 plays, including collaborations with others. Many were directed by or co-conceptualised with Alvin Tan, founder and co-Artistic Director of TNS. Still Building (1994), comprising three plays, secured the Merit Prize in the 1993 Singapore Literature Prize. The title play took the NBDCS Commendation Award in 1996. Sharma received the NAC s Young Artist Award in 1997. This Chord and Others (1999) collects six of his plays.

Sharma has always been interested in social issues. He has written about mental illness, homosexuality, AIDS, Malaysia-Singapore politics, and migrant workers. Fundamentally Happy (2006), about paedophilia, won two 2007 Life! Theatre awards. Sharma s plays have been performed in more than a dozen countries.


Journalist since 1967. Freelance writer since 1981. British-born, Chinese Studies honours degree, Leeds University, UK. Singapore resident 1968-98, now commuting Singapore-Perth, Western Australia. Married: Singaporean entertainer Siva Choy.
Former Council member Malaysian Nature Society; Committee member Nature Society (Singapore). Manager Public Relations & Marketing, Greening Australia (WA), native vegetation conservation NGO,1998-2000.

Former features editor, Business Times and Straits Times, Singapore. Magazine editor, Ministry of Education, Singapore. China correspondent, Far Eastern Economic Review, Hong Kong. Stringer, Financial Times UK, Melbourne Herald Australia, Daily Telegraph UK.

Published Commissioned Corporate/Family Histories:
2004 Pest Birds of Urban Southeast Asia, with Prof N. Sodhi, NUS, SNP International
2004 Nature Trails of Singapore, with Dr Wee Yeow Chin, former NUS, retd, SNP International.
1998 Just A Little Flutter, Singapore Pools, national lottery;
1997 A Tale of Two Lions, 10th Anniversary, The British Alumni, Singapore;
1994 The First 21 Years, Singapore Zoological Gardens;
1993 Wheels of Change, Borneo Motors, Singapore;
1992 Citizens of the World, the Zecha family (Indonesia/Europe);
1989 The History of Drew & Napier, 1889-1989, legal firm, Singapore;
1985 The Singapore Cricket Club, 1852;
1972 Solid As A Rock, co-author, the Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation, Singapore.


Published Commercial Publishing Titles:
2002 Singapore Dog - K9 Facts, Figures & Fancies, co-author, SNP International, Singapore;
1994 Green Indonesia, Oxford University Press, Kuala Lumpur;
1992 Culture Shock! Australia, Times Editions, Singapore;
1988 The Rhinoceros, co-author, Basilisk Press, London;
1981 There Is Only One Raffles, Raffles Hotel, Singapore, Souvenir Press, London.


Other Commissioned Titles:
2002 The Green Map of Singapore – co-author, Singapore Environment Council;
1996 Summit With A View, Bukit Timah Nature Reserve, co-author, NTU/NUS Singapore;
1995 Growing at your Doorstep, 35 native plants of Singapore, co-author, Singapore Environment Council;
1995 Greening the Bottom Line, Singapore Environment Council;
Windows on the Forest, co-author, Forest Research Institute of Malaysia; 1985 A Guide to Bukit Timah Nature Reserve, co-author, Singapore Science Centre/Nature Reserves Board;

Prizes and Awards:
1989 Australian Writers and Art Directors Award for Direct Mail Trade Products and Services (brochures), Client: Singapore Tourist Promotion Board;
1986 Festival of Books Singapore Certificate of Merit, Silver class, General Books, for ‘The Singapore Cricket Club’.


Rex Shelley was born in 1930. He currently has his own trading business, and has had a long term involvement with the Public Service and Education Service Commissions. He is a member of Singapore's 'Eurasian' community and his four novels centre on the experiences of that community. Shelley’s plots are also drawn principally from the years of his youth. The experiences of the Japanese occupation of Singapore from 1942-1945 are central in many of his novels, as are the years of the Malayan "Emergency" which saw racial and political tensions in Singapore out of which the modern independent states of Malaysia and Singapore ultimately grew.

His novels have been well received in Singapore, where most of them have won prestigious awards from the National Book Development Council of Singapore. The Shrimp People, his first novel, was awarded the top prize by the National Book Development Council of Singapore in 1993. People of the Pear Tree and Culture Shock Japan received NBDCS book awards in 1994. Island in the Centre was published in 1995.


Born in 1971
Shiau is a lawyer by profession. His novel Heartland (1999), which title evokes the name given to suburbs dominated by the public housing, won a Commendation Award in the 1998 Singapore Literature Prize. A consciously Singaporean novel, the narrative is interspersed with interludes on the social, political and cultural history of the island. Shiau s volume of poetry, Peninsular: Archipelagos and Other Islands (2000) shows a comparable interest in local and regional issues.

Shiau won the NAC s Young Artist Award in 2002 and was conferred the Foundation Education Award by the Japanese Chamber of Commerce and Industry in 2003. A Fulbright scholar and an alumnus of the East-West Center Honolulu/Washington D.C), Shiau was a Visiting Writer (Fall, 2003) at the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, University of California at Berkeley.


Playwright, poet and short story writer. Born 1961. Educ: NUS (MA Literature). Was with Singapore Airport Teminal Services; Writer-in-Residence, Theatreworks; Director, Desmond Sim & Co Pte Ltd.

Publications
Mistress and Other Creative Takeoffs, Landmark Books, 1990
Places Where I've Been 1993 (Merit Singapore Literature Prize for Poetry)

Prizes and awards
1989 Merit, Shell-NUS Short Play Competition, 1989
1989 2nd Prize, National short Story Writing Competition
1990 1st and 2nd prizes, Shell-NUS Short Play Competition
1993 1st Prize, Hewlett Packard/Action Theatre 10-minute Play Contest


Sim Kaywee is the senior Advisor to a Japanese Flight Attendant and Ground Service School in Japan, called TOP Airlines Business Institute. He writes children’s stories in his free time and has recently self-published and launched his first book “More than a Dog’s Life – Datin’s Own Story”. The book revolves around the adventures of Datin, a golden retriever as she observes and experiences life in Singapore. On 15 July 2006, the National Library Board and the Singapore Book Publisher's Association organised a book launch for eight of Sim’s works at the Ang Mo Kio Library.


Carol Sim has been a practising librarian since 1989 and has a passion for telling stories to children. In fact, Carol has been conducting storytelling sessions as part of her professional duties and freelancing in major bookstores in Singapore, as well as for children’s parties. Her first book Boing, Boing, Boing & Boing! is one of the 14 books under the First-Time Writers & Illustrators Publishing Initiative Jointly organised by the National Book Development Council of Singapore and the Media Development Authority.


(1956 - ) Chris Mooney Singh is an poet, writer, editor, Eastern musical heritage revivalist and now Singaporean PR. He has published 3 joint collections and an individual collection of poetry The House of Winter. He edited the Penguin Book of Christmas Poems in 1992.

Fish Factory, a libretto for contemporary opera was performed at the Adelaide Festival Theatre in 1996. He has also produced two CDs, one of which Indian City is a poetry/music fusion recorded in India and released in Singapore in 1997.


Kirpal Singh was the Head of the Division of Literature and Drama at the National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University (Singapore). He is currently with the newly established Singapore Management University as Head of Cultural Studies. Singh is also an internationally recognised scholar and creative writer. He edits the prestigious journal, World Literature Written in English and sits on the boards of numerous international journals and associations. He has published two collections of poetry, Psalm Readings in 1986 and Cat Walking and the Games We Play in 1998.


Writer. Born 21 May 1964. Educ: Catholic High School; Temasek Jr College; NUS BSc Computer and Information Sciences). Publications: Double on the Rocks: the Savant Bartender Story, Brit Aspen Publishing, 1991; Love, Sex and Understanding, Times Books International, 1994.


Writer. Was property officer with OCBC Property Services. Born 1945. A Son of a Mother, EPB, 1978, won the NBDCS Book Award for Fiction, 1976.


A storyteller and writer, Rosemarie Somaiah has taught, led workshops and told stories in local and international schools, over the radio, in the libraries, and on the MRT. She has performed at The Arts House, the Singapore History Museum, The Singapore Art Museum, the Asian Civilizations Museum, the Substation, and at festivals like the Singapore International Storytelling Festival, the Storytellers Showcase, Sayang Singapore, Kidsfest and The Asian Children’s Festival. She has also performed in Hungary, Hongkong and at the Scottish Storytelling Festival in Edinburgh, where apart from adult performances, she was also invited to tell stories in kindergartens, schools and libraries.

Rosemarie leads The Storytellers’ Circle of the Society for Reading and Literacy (SRL) and has produced Chapter One to Five of New and Old, Read and Told, a series of family-oriented public performances that include storytelling and reading aloud. She is Secretary of the Singapore Drama Educators Association (SDEA), and a member of the Storytelling Association (Singapore). Local books for children include a comic for the Singapore History Museum, Gateway to Singapore Culture (2004), Colours of Harmony (2005) and Colours of Love (2006). Her latest book for the international market is Indian Children’s Favourite Stories (2006) by Tuttle Publishing.


Born in 1949
Soon is an academic and writer. She is an Assistant Professor at the Asian Language and Cultural Department of the National Institute of Education. Her books include a short story collection, The Green Willow, an essay collection, Crystal Compilation and a collection of stories, Allegorical Tales. Her short stories, 17 and The Smell of Green Tea, won the Singapore Golden Lion Award and National Book Award respectively, and Song of Ban Bu won second prize in the first Taiwan Overseas Chinese Magazine Literature awards. Her novel Exquisite won the Shanghai Meng Ya magazine merit prize in the overseas writers category. She received the SEA Write Award in 2004.


Chitra Soundar is a writer whose work is enriched and inspired by the ethnic culture of India. Chitra has diverse professional experience in education, information systems and finance and has 14 books in print.

She continuously strives to write books that would inspire young readers to become trailblazers. She has worked with curriculum content creation and editing, test preparation, course planning and lesson plan preparation and writes for a variety of juvenile and educational magazines. Chitra Soundar has developed Creative Writing training for primary school children in Singapore. You can find out more at www.chitrasoundar.com


Suratman has been a member of ASAS ’50 since 1952. He was one of the judges for the First Asean Literary Award held in Bangkok in 1977, and was a committee member of World Congress of Poets for South East Asia in 1989. Some of the books that has been published under his name, Perempuan Kerudung Hitam (short stories, 1991); Potret Isteri Yang Hilang (poems, 1993); Penghulu Yang Hilang Segala-galanya (novels, 1998); Kembali Kepada Al-Quran (short stories, 2000) and Puisi Luka dan Puisi Duka (poems, 2004). He received South East Asian Writers Award in 1989; the Montblance-NUS Centre for the Arts Literary Awards in 1997; Nusantara Literary Award in 1999 and Tun Seri Lanang Literary Award in 1999.