The list of contributors is alphabetical by first name.

Chew Yi Wei

Chew Yi Wei is currently a PhD student with the Department of English Language and Literature (Theatre Studies) at the National University of Singapore. Her work has been published in Quarterly Literary Review Singapore, Transnational Literature and the Journal of Post-colonial Cultures and Societies.

Colin W. Campbell

Originally from Scotland, today Colin is ever-so-lucky to be able to divide his year between homes in Sarawak on the lovely green island of Borneo and faraway in Yunnan in southwest China. He writes short fiction and poetry and spends far too much time on www.colincampbell.org and www.shortstory.mob

Dan Asenlund

Dan Asenlund was born in Stockholm, Sweden, in 1981, but quickly dreamed himself away and longed for bigger adventures. He spent a year in Detroit, Michigan, in high school and later moved back to the United States to pursue a degree in Journalism at the University of Oregon. He ended up not only double-majoring in Japanese, but developed a life-long passion for all things Japanese. He first set foot in the land of the rising sun in 2004 as an exchange student in Tokyo and later came back to work as an English teacher in Saga, Kyushu, between 2007-09. He then tried his luck as an actor in Tokyo and spent three years in South Korea pursuing his other big passion: film-making  He is now back in Tokyo, writing screenplays and fiction.

Iain Maloney

Iain Maloney is a Scottish writer living in Japan. His fiction, poetry and journalism has been widely published around the world. His magical realist Japanese thriller Dog Mountain is available to a good home.

Matt Sipprell

Matt Sipprell (58), is a U.S. ex-pat attorney and composer/producer based in Saigon.

Rose Lu

Rose Lu (Binghua),  a famous Chinese Poetess,   is currently an accountant in Maryland. She is the author of This is Love, and Roses by the Stream. Her poems are beautiful, fluent and pure. The poet’s inspiration is clearly derived from nature. She always uses different natural elements in simple yet powerful images. Each poem is also a statement about her life, that has make readers nod, smile, or wipe away tears.

Ms. Lu’s  poetry has won several awards. Her poem  The  Heart Of A Lotus won the Gold Award in the world-wide Chinese poetry contest: “love story”  in 2010; Her poems It’s Neither Frivolous Nor Drifty and A Fan won the Award on  the theme of Belief in Love in XXXI World Congress of Poets in 2011.

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.

Tendai R. Mwanaka

Tendai R. Mwanaka was born in the remote eastern highlands district of Nyanga, in Mapfurira village, grew up there and did his primary, secondary, and high school in this area. He left Nyanga for Chitungwiza city in 1994, and started exploring writing that year, when he was barely twenty. He has also worked in the sales and marketing field for over 8 years, and has a graduate diploma in marketing (GradSaim). Tendai has stayed in South Africa for two and half years, but he is now back in Zimbabwe, where he stays in Chitungwiza city.

His first book to be published, Voices from Exile, a collection of poetry on Zimbabwe’s political situation and exile in South Africa was published by Lapwing publications, Northern Ireland in 2010. Keys in the River: Notes from a Modern Chimurenga, a novel of interlinked stories that deals with life in modern day Zimbabwe’s soul was published by Savant books and publications, USA in 2012. A book of creative non-fiction pieces, The Blame Game, will be published by Langaa RPCIG( Cameroon 2013). A follow up novel to Keys in the River, tentatively entitled, The River Runs Dry will be published by Savant books and publications USA (2013). A novel entitled, A Dark Energy will be published by Aignos publishing company, USA (2013). His Poetry books: Revolution, Logbook Written by a Drifter, and Voices from Exile, were all short listed for the Erbecce Press Poetry Prize in 2012, 2011, and 2009 respectively. Another poetry book entitled Pearls of Awareness was short listed for the Twoz Creations Chapbook Prize in 2012. Tendai was nominated for the Pushcart twice, in 2008 and 2010. He was commended for the Dalro Prize in 2008, and he was nominated for and attended the Caine African Writing Workshop in 2012. He has published over 200 pieces consisting of short stories, essays, memoirs, poems and visual art in over 100 magazines, journals, and anthologies in the following countries:  the USA , UK , Canada , South Africa, Zimbabwe, India , Mexico, Kenya, Cameroon, Italy , Ghana, Uganda, France , Zambia, Nigeria, Spain , Romania, Cyprus, Australia and New Zealand.

Xenia Taiga

Xenia Taiga lives in southern China. You can find her work in Asiancha, Eastlit and Gone Lawn Journal.