The list of contributors is alphabetical by first name.

Anna Yin

Anna Yin was born in china and immigrated to Canada in 1999. She won the 2005 Ted Plantos Memorial Award, 2010 MARTY Award for her poetry. Her poems in English & Chinese and ten translations by her were in a Canadian Studies textbook used by Humber College. Anna has a coll ection of poetry “Wings Toward Sunlight” and three chapbooks. In early 2013, Mosaic Press will publish another collection of her poetry “Inhaling the Silence.” www.annapoetry.com.

Ashutosh Ravikrishnan

Ashutosh Ravikrishnan is an aspiring Singaporean writer who enjoys politics, history and pop culture. He hopes to someday, somehow write a fictional tale of two ideologically different lovers, Margaret Thatcher and Indira Gandhi.

Charlie Canning

Charlie Canning taught English for ten years at three universities in Japan before enrolling in the PhD program in creative writing at the University of Adelaide. He has published a novel on Japan’s Shikoku Pilgrimage of 88 Temples (The 89TH Temple, 2012) and a three act play set in Australia called The Cranial Equity Loan. “The Cebuanos” is an early chapter from his second novel, The Sign of Jonah.

Chris Luppi

Christopher Luppi was born in New York. He graduated from The New School for Social Research where he majored in writing and literature and minored in education. He also did a lot of other stuff. He now lives in Thailand and has done for a lot of years. The story in this issue of Eastlit originally appeared at Elimae and was named one of the “Notable Stories of 2008” by storySouth’s annual Million Writers Award. His writing has also appeared at Asiancha, Pequin, and Bureau 39.

Dawnell Harrison

Dawnell Harrison has been published in over 70 magazines and journals including The Endicott Review, Fowl Feathered Review, The Bitchin’ Kitsch, Vox Poetica, Queen’s Quarterly, The Vein, Word Riot, Iconoclast, Puckerbrush Review, Nerve Cowboy, Mobius, Absinthe: A journal of poetry, and many others.

Also, she has had 3 books of poetry published through reputable publishers titled Voyager, The Maverick Posse, and The fire Behind my Eyes.

James Austin Farrell

James Austin Farrell is a 39 year old (UK) writer who has lived in Chiang Mai for 13 years. He currently works as editor for Chiang Mai City News, and before that he worked as deputy editor of Citylife magazine, Chiang Mai.

Most of his published work is journalism, though he has had fiction published, notably his last novella – The Drug Study. That was published as an audio book with Nil Desperandum, US. He is working on finishing a collection of stories and short novels. He has also a completed novel that he can’t bear the sight of…He’ll get back to it soon.

James Underwood

James Underwood is a poet and English teacher from the Great Lake State of Michigan. After graduating from UMBC in 1995 with a BA in English Literature, he moved to Southeast Asia, where he has lived and travelled since.

Nicholas Keys

Nichole Reber

After four years of living in China, Hong Kong, India, and Peru, Nichole L. Reber repatriated to the States in February. She’s often found discussing urban planning with architects, traveling through the Phoenix Valley via alternative transport, or sitting at the bar with a book and a coctalito. Nichole earned a master of arts in literary writing with honors from DePaul University. Her essay on the implications of gender rights by wearing chador in Mumbai and another on her indoctrination to the jazz world have been published in Recess Magazine and AllAboutJazz.

Richard Lutman

Richard Lutman has a MFA in Writing from Vermont College.  He currently teaches short story classes as part of Coastal Carolina University’s Lifelong Learning program.  His fiction has appeared in publications including Epiphany Magazine, The Prick of the Spindle and The Bethlehem Writers Roundtable.  Iron Butterfly was shortlisted in the 2012 Santa Fe Writers Project competition and has been published by thewritedeal. He was a 2008 Pushcart Nominee in fiction and the recipient of national awards for his non-fiction and short stories and screenplays.  This chapter is from the novella that morphed from a field journal he kept while spending summers in Hong Kong and southern China collecting butterflies.

Stefanie Field

Stefanie Field is a graduate student studying International Relations at Webster University in Bangkok, Thailand.  She is an avid reader who enjoys Asian studies and literature.

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.

Tom Sheehan

Sheehan served in the 31st Infantry Regiment, Korea 1951
and graduated from Boston College in 1956. His books are Epic Cures; Brief
Cases, Short Spans; A Collection of Friends; and From the Quickening. Recent
eBooks from Milspeak Publishers include Korean Echoes, 2011, nominated for a
Distinguished Military Award and The Westering, 2012, nominated for a
National Book Award. His newest eBook, from Danse Macabre-Lazarus-Anvil,
2013, is Murder at the Forum, an NHL mystery novel, with two more mysteries
due for 2013 publication, Death of a Lottery Foe and Death by Punishment.
His work is in many publications including Rosebud (6th issue), Ocean
Magazine (8th issue), and other global publications such as The Linnet’s
Wings in Ireland (6th issue), Nazar Look in Romania (7th issue)
MGVersion2Datura in France (3rd issue), Mythaxis in UK (2nd issues), In
Other Words – Merida in Mexico (4th issue), 3 AM Magazine in  France (9th
issue), etc. He has 8 western collections in a publishers queue with
fabulous covers by his sons.