The list of Eastlit writers August 2013 is alphabetical by first name.

Andrew J. West

Andrew J. West is a Bangkok-based art critic who has written extensively about Thai art. He is author of the forthcoming works Contemporary Thai Directory of Artists and Prateep Kochabua: Destiny to Imagination and his art fiction novel Silpa: the Art of Love (Ruk Nai Roy Silp) was published in the Thai language in 2008. His short story “The Mansion” appeared in the June edition of Eastlit. West was born in 1967 in Armidale, Australia, and studied writing and journalism at the University of Western Sydney (UWS), graduating with an MA (Writing), and has been living in Thailand since 2003. West is currently teaching at the National Institute of Development Administration (NIDA) and has guest lectured in art criticism at Silpakorn University.

Anita Gill

Anita Gill studied at New York University and American University. Her work has appeared in FortyOunceBachelors and The Swirl Blog. She currently teaches at Santa Monica College and UCLA.

Armin Tanovic

Armin Tanovic was born in Royal Oak Michigan and grew up there until the age of ten when he moved back to Bosnia and Herzegovina.

D.M. Aderibigbe

D.M Aderibigbe was born in 1989, in Lagos, Nigeria. He is an undergraduate of History and Strategic Studies of the University of Lagos. His work has appeared or will soon appear in journals across 12 countries around the world, including; Poetry Kanto, Cannon’s Mouth, WordRiot, Ditch among others. He lives in Lagos.

Károly Sándor Pallai

Károly Sándor Pallai is a PhD student specializing in the contemporary francophone literatures of the Caribbean, the Indian Ocean, and the Pacific. He’s the conceptor, founder and editor in chief of the international electronic review of literary creation and theory Vents Alizés and also the creator and founding director of the electronic publishing house Edisyon Losean Endyen. He’s a member of the editorial board of the Seychellois literary review Sipay. His poetry has been published in online and paper magazines and reviews in France, in the Seychelles, in Canada, in Hungary, in the Philippines, in the United States, in Denmark and in Northern Ireland. His collection of poems, Soleils invincibles, was published in 2012, his play, Mangeurs d’anémones in 2013 (Éditions Arthée). In acknowledgement of his theoretical, poetical and editorial work, he has been chosen among the ”50 Young Hungarian Talents” by the La femme magazine. website: http://pallaikaroly.com/

Nick Aarons

Nick Aarons was born and grew up in Cape Town, South Africa. After graduating from university there, he moved initially to Malaysia and then to Jakarta, Indonesia where he taught English for several years. Later, he and a colleague opened their own company, providing various language services to clients in many fields. More recently he has moved to Bali, where he has embarked on a new career in property development. His overriding passions, however, are for travel and writing, both of which he could happily indulge in all of the time, given the chance.

Preeyakit Buranasin

Writer on weekdays and English teacher on weekends, Preeyakit has a bachelor’s in English and a master’s in English Literature. During his studies, he started writing both in prose and poetry, resulting in works in various genres. He’s an Ananchanok Poetry Award recipient. In addition, he’s a member of Bangkok Community Theatre.

Robert Wexelblatt

Robert Wexelblatt is professor of humanities at Boston University’s College of General Studies.  He has published essays, stories, and poems in a wide variety of journals, two story collections, Life in the Temperate Zone and The Decline of Our Neighborhood, a book of essays, Professors at Play; his novel, Zublinka Among Women, won the Indie Book Awards First Prize for Fiction.  His most recent book is a short novel, Losses.

Steve Rosse

In 1988 Steve Rosse took a break from a career in the New York City film and television industry for a three-month holiday on Phuket, an island off the Western coast of Thailand in the Andaman Sea.
He decided he liked Phuket more than he liked New York, and without any idea of what he’d do for a living, he took up residence on the island. He supported himself, and eventually his wife and children, for most of the next decade as a freelance journalist and columnist.
His column, “The Rock”, appeared in The Nation, Thailand’s Independent Newspaper, every Sunday for five years.
In 1997 he moved to Iowa for the surfing.

Steve Tait

After twenty years as an EFL teacher, teacher trainer, and supervisor in Bangkok, Thailand, Steve decided it was time for a change. With his precious Romanian partner by his side, he has spent the last few years drifting through South-East Asia, hanging out in the Romanian countryside, and doing some teacher training in Korea, Thailand, and Malaysia. Steve is currently working with local English teachers in Kelantan, Malaysia.

He has one ebook to his name, a novel which is available as a free download from Lulu.

Vasan Sitthiket

Vasan Sitthiket has built his artistic career on confronting the establishment and addressing taboo social and political issues—both national and international. Vasan, who has become known as the country’s enfant terrible, was presented the Silpathorn Award (Thailand’s highest art award) in 2007 from Ministry of Culture’s Office of Contemporary Art and Culture.

William Marr

Born in Taiwan and spent his childhood in mainland China, Chinese-American poet William Marr (Fei Ma)  has published 21 books of poetry ( 2 in English, the rest in his native Chinese language) and is considered one of the world’s leading contemporary poets writing in Chinese.  Hailed as one of the collectable Chicago poets, his English poetry is also highly regarded.  His poems appear in over one hundred anthologies, ranging from literary textbooks to special collections and have been translated into more than ten languages.  In addition to writing poetry, he has also engaged in translating Western modern poetry into Chinese and has edited several anthologies of Chinese and Taiwanese modern poetry.   A research scientist at Argonne National Laboratory near Chicago and a former president of the Illinois State Poetry Society, he has also pursued other artistic interests including painting and sculpting in recent years.

Xenia Taiga

Xenia Taiga lives in southern China. Her work is in Asiancha, Fourway Review, Pithead Chapel and Gone Lawn Journal.