The list of contributors June 2013 is alphabetical by first name.

A.T. Payne

A. T. Payne is a writer an English language teacher in China. She lives on and off in Dalian, China and Oakland, California.

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. 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.

Carol Colborn

After stints as CEO of Philippine pioneers in information technology, Carol migrated to the US to take care of grandkids. She also served as a business counselor in SCORE and adjunct professor in three schools of higher learning in Seattle. Soon after she married Bill in 2008, they started and recently completed a 4-year cruise of North America in an RV. She maintains a blog about their travels, rvcruisinglifestyle.blogspot.com, portions of which have been republished in Philippine press. Carol has a BS in Math, an MBA, and a DPA abd from the University of the Philippines.

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/

Lucy Howson

Michele Alice

Nick M. 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.

Papimol

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.

Vasan Sithiket

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.

Xenia Taiga

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

Zara Adcock

Zara lives in Thailand where she is constantly inspired by her surrounds, the people she has met, the earth sites she regularly visits and all her experiences. Zara loves writing poetry and fiction and also enjoys experimenting with other writing forms. You can read the beginning of her first published piece, (children’s fiction), The Sword of Stars, in Approach Hua Hin magazine, issue 4, May 2013.