The list of contributors is alphabetical by first name.
Afzal Moolla
Afzal Moolla was born in Delhi, India while his parents were in exile, working as anti-Apartheid activists for the African National Congress. Afzal subsequently travelled wherever his parent’s work took them. He still feels that he hasn’t stopped travelling. Afzal currently works and lives in Johannesburg, South Africa and shares his literary musings with his most strident critic – his 12 year old cat.
Brenton Rossow
Gale Acuff
Jiawen P.
Jiawen P. is a high school student, photographer, and occasional writer living in Singapore. She believes in reading, art, the Japanese language, freedom, rights, and education reform, and her favorite literary genre is Asian-American Literature with a focus on the Asian Diaspora. Her work can be found at tumblr
John McMahon
John McMahon is a freelance writer, part time antiques exporter and occasional educator who lives on the banks of the River Kwai. His work both fiction and reportage can be read in many publications, his novel The Black Gentlemen Of Trong Suan is available at Amazon.
John Pickavance
As a child, it was John’s ambition to become a doctor. A late developer, it
wasn’t until as a medical student that he realised he was a child no longer.
And so it was he moved to China, to be a child again, only his ambition was
now to write. He’s currently working on his first novel and, if history is
anything to go by, it will probably be his last. Though he is submitting
work to an “Eastern” literature blog, he leaves it to others more qualified
to write about the East. Rather, the subject of his nonsensificating, and
his own area of expertise, is the metaphysics of mental illness. He does,
however, draw on themes from his China experience,’Beaten to death’ being
one such example. And so, though it was written with the UK in mind, themes
of consensus, plagarism, creativity and madness, he hopes, go someway to
bridging the enormous gap.
John majored in Medical Sciences and the Philosophy of Science, graduating
in 2009 from Selwyn College, Cambridge University. He currently teaches
creative writing at Sichuan University, Chengdu.
Kalpana Negi
Lynda Majarian
Lynda Majarian grew up in Vermont and New Hampshire and has been writing since childhood. She taught English Composition for a year in Shenyang, China, and for several years taught English Composition, Introduction to Literature, and Creative Writing at Community College of Vermont. She currently is a professor of oral and written English for graduate students at Fudan University in Shanghai, China. Her work has been published in Narrative, PIF, Marco Polo, Superstition Review, Thin Air Review, and Spelunker Flophousemagazines.
Richard Lutman
Richard Lutman has a MFA in Writing from Vermont College. He teaches a short fiction class as part of Coastal Carolina University’s Lifelong Learning Program. He has also won local and national awards for his short stories, nonfiction, and screenplays. He was a 2008 Pushcart nominee in fiction.
Tom Sheehan
Tom Sheehan served in 31st Regt., Korea, 1951-52 and graduated from Boston
College in 1956. Books are This Rare Earth & Other Flights; Epic Cures, and
Brief Cases, Short Spans; A Collection of Friends and From the Quickening.
He has 20 Pushcart nominations, 320 stories on Rope and Wire Magazine, work
in Rosebud Magazine (5), The Linnet’s Wings (6) and Ocean Magazine (8), and
many sites, including Nervous Breakdown, Faith-Hope-Fiction, Subtle Tea,
Danse Macabre, Deep South Magazine, Best of Sand Hill Review, Wilderness
House Literary Review, Dew on the Kudzu, MGVersion2datura, 3 A.M. Magazine,
Literary Orphans, and Nazar Look, etc. His newest eBooks are Korean Echoes
and The Westering, 2012, the latter nominated for a National Book Award by
Milspeak Publishers.
Tony Concannon
I grew up in Massachusetts. After graduating from college with a B.A. in English and American Literature, I taught in Japan for the next 18 years. Since returning to the United States, I have been working in human services. Stories of mine have appeared in Thought Magazine, The Taproot Literary Review, Down in the Dirt and Litro.
Valentina Cano
Valentina Cano is a student of classical singing who spends whatever free time either writing or reading. Her works have appeared in Exercise Bowler, Blinking Cursor, Theory Train, Cartier Street Press, Berg Gasse 19, Precious Metals, A Handful of Dust, The Scarlet Sound, The Adroit Journal, Perceptions Literary Magazine, Welcome to Wherever, The Corner Club Press, Death Rattle, Danse Macabre, Subliminal Interiors, Generations Literary Journal, A Narrow Fellow, Super Poetry Highway, Stream Press, Stone Telling, Popshot, Golden Sparrow Literary Review, Rem Magazine, Structo, The 22 Magazine, The Black Fox Literary Magazine, Niteblade, Tuck Magazine, Ontologica, Congruent Spaces Magazine, Pipe Dream, Decades Review, Anatomy, Lowestof Chronicle, Muddy River Poetry Review, Lady Ink Magazine, Spark Anthology, Awaken Consciousness Magazine, Vine Leaves Literary Magazine, Avalon Literary Review, Caduceus,White Masquerade Anthology and Perhaps I’m Wrong About the World. Her poetry has been nominated for Best of the Web and the Pushcart Prize.You can find her here.
Valerie Wong
Valerie Wong was born in Toronto, grew up in Hong Kong and is currently studying international business at New York University. A self-proclaimed Third Culture Kid (TCK), she is at once a local and a foreigner wherever she goes.
Xenia Taiga
Xenia Taiga lives in southern China. A previous short story portfolio of hers came second in a competition run by UK publishers Biscuit. She also has a story that is forthcoming in AsianCha. She’s almost finished her novel, Chinglish. (Man, man lai) Xenia doesn’t live on the 32nd floor. She lives with a cockatiel called Farkel–or as all her Chinese friends say, “Fucko”–and an Englishman.
Zach Wilson
Zach Wilson is a junior at Ohio University. He is passionate about philosophy and literature, and holds caffeine in high esteem as well. His musings on politics and other topics can be found at his blog, or on Twitter.
Zack Lyon
