Christina Ng is a Singaporean writer, journalist and translator based in Berlin. Working between English and Chinese, she has interpreted for film and theatre productions, as well as written and translated essays, interviews and features on art, travel, and culture. Her Chinese to English literary translations include poetry by Singaporean poets Dan Ying, Pan Shou and Liang Wern Fook.

Gene Png is an award-winning literary translator based in Singapore. She was awarded the Grand Prize in Poetry at the 53rd The Korea Times’ Translation Awards, and was the National Centre for Writing’s Korean Prose Mentee in 2023 Her full-length book translations include Kim Hana and Hwang Sunwoo’s bestselling memoir, Two Women Living Together, Esther Park’s romantasy The Legend of Lady Byeoksa and Park Seolyeon’s STEMinist mecha fantasy Project V. She is interested in books that champion girl power, empathy, and whimsy.

Shanna Tan is a Singaporean literary translator working from Korean, Mandarin Chinese, Japanese, and occasionally, Thai, into English. She has translated more than ten Korean bestselling titles, including Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop by Hwang Bo-reum and the feminist thriller Plant Lady by Minyoung Kang. This year, she’s thrilled to be putting out translations from three languages, including the English edition of her all-time favourite novel: Café. Waiting. Love by Giddens Ko (九把刀) from Taiwan. She enjoys self-learning languages.

Dr Anitha Devi Pillai is an applied linguist, author, translator, and Assistant Dean at the National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. She translated Sembawang: A Novel from Tamil into English, which was shortlisted for the NUS Singapore History Prize and the Best Literary Work Prize. Her new short story collection, What the Tongue Remembers, published by Penguin, explores language, migration, memory, food, and the lives of Malayalee women in Singapore.