Alfian Sa’at is a Resident Playwright with Wild Rice. His published works include three collections of poetry, ‘One Fierce Hour’, ‘A History of Amnesia’ and ‘The Invisible Manuscript’, a collection of short stories, ‘Corridor’, a collection of flash fiction, ‘Malay Sketches’, three collections of plays as well as the published plays ‘Cooling Off Day’ and ‘Hotel’. He has also translated the novels “The Tower” by Isa Kamari and “The Widower” by Mohamed Latiff Mohamed.

Brian Gothong Tan is a Singaporean creative director, filmmaker, and multimedia artist renowned for translating complex literary and historical narratives into striking visual languages. A six-time Life! Theatre Award winner—most recently for A Thousand Stitches (2026)—his eclectic work seamlessly bridges film, stage, and installation art. As the artistic director for T:>Atelier and the Creative Director for the 2024 and 2026 National Day Parades, he continually explores the dynamic intersection of text, culture, and visual storytelling.

Izyanti Asa’ari is a writer and co-founder of Fellow Design. Her works have appeared in anthologies This is Not a Safety Barrier (Ethos Books, 2016), to let the light in (SingLit Station, 2021), New Singapore Poetries (Gaudy Books, 2022), The Opening Act (Layl Ash-Shayr, 2024) and others. She is interested in studying the gestures the body makes against its own will, including that of cities.

Tse Hao Guang (謝皓光) is the author of The International Left-Hand Calligraphy Association and White Dust From Mongolia. He edited the new edition of Windham-Campbell prize-winning poet Wong May’s 1969 debut, A Bad Girl’s Book of Animals, and anthologies Food Republic and UnFree Verse. He co-edits lit journals AMOK (print) and OF ZOOS (online), and runs a tiny pamphlet press called Paper Jam. His poems and essays appear in Poetry, Poem-a-Day, The Yale Review, F I V E S and elsewhere.