The list of Eastlit writers January 2014 is alphabetical by first name. This month we also include artists again.
Anna Yin
Anna Yin was born in China and immigrated to Canada in 1999. Anna won the 2005 Ted Plantos Memorial Award, the 2010 MARTY Award etc. Her poems written in English & Chinese, along with ten translations, were published in a Canadian Studies textbook used by Humber College. She has five poetry books. Collections of her poetry “Wings Toward Sunlight” was published by Mosaic Press in 2011 and “Inhaling the Silence” was published in 2013. She was interviewed by CBC Radio, Rogers TV, CCTV, China Daily etc. Her poem “Still Life” was selected to be displayed on buses across Canada from July 1, 2013 to July 1, 2014 for Poetry In Transit project. Anna is Ontario representative for the League of Canadian Poets. She was a finalist for Canada’s Top 25 Canadian Immigrants Awards in 2011 and 2012.She works and lives in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. Her website: Annapoetry.com
Bob D’Costa
Poet, author educationist, author of four books of poems, A Brutal Sunset, The Ten Commandments, Gods on Earth, Dark Roots writing on love, protest, social issues and quest into philosophy; one novel, Love and Life in a Changing City, on literary fiction, romance and paranormal and No New Mail but Mail from a New Girl in e-book from.
K. A. Abbas categorized Bob’s poems to those of Walt Whitman, Pablo Neruda, Majaz, Mayakovsky, Sardar Jaffri, Faiz Ahmed Faiz. Dr. Krishna Srinivas commented on Bob as Frederick Lorca of India. Rosemary C. Wilkinson, Secretary, World Academy of Arts and Culture, California categorized Bob’s poems to those of Bob Dylan. Bob gives poetry readings at gatherings and takes writers for retreats in the lap of nature.
Bob teaches English to students from Classes V-XII, English for SAT and is also a Counsellor to students going for higher studies to the US as well as being an affiliate to more than sixty US colleges/universities.
Bob has four more manuscripts of ready novels. His genres of stories are paranormal, love and romance, mystery and literary fiction. He resides in Calcutta with his wife Sucheta Ghose and their son, Pablo.
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.
David Wong
David Wong Hsien Ming was born in Singapore, discovered poetry as a child at a Sunday lunch and pursued honors in Philosophy at the University of Melbourne, reading poetry at Rutgers University New Brunswick along the way. His work has appeared in Quarterly Literary Review Singapore, Ceriph, Eye to the Telescope, Unshod Quills, Literary Orphans, and earned an Honorable Mention in Singapore’s Golden Point Award 2011.
H.C. Hsu
HC Hsu was born in Taipei. He is the author of the short story collection Love Is Sweeter (Lethe, May 2013). Finalist for the 2013 Wendell Mayo Award and The Austin Chronicle 21st Short Story Prize, First Place Winner of A Midsummer Tale 2013, Third Prize Winner of the 2013Memoir essay competition, and The Best American Essays 2014 Nominee, he has written for Words Without Borders, Two Lines, PRISM International, Renditions, Far Enough East, Cha, Pif Magazine, Big Bridge, nthposition, 100 Word Story, Louffa Press, Liberty Times, Epoch Times, and many others. He has served as translator for the US Congressional-Executive Commission on China and is currently a research fellow at the Europäische Universität für Interdisziplinäre Studien, Switzerland, where he is completing a commissioned translation of 2010 Nobel Peace Prize recipient Liu Xiaobo’s biography.
Jerrold Yam
Born in 1991, Jerrold Yam is a law undergraduate at University College London and the author of poetry collections Scattered Vertebrae (Math Paper Press, 2013) and Chasing Curtained Suns (Math Paper Press, 2012). His poems have been published in more than seventy literary journals and anthologies worldwide, including Antiphon, Counterexample Poetics, Mascara Literary Review, Prick of the Spindle, The New Poet, Third Coast and Washington Square Review. He has been awarded poetry prizes from the British Council and National University of Singapore, and is the youngest Singaporean to be nominated for the Pushcart Prize. He has been featured at the London Book Fair and Singapore Writers Festival. (http://jerroldyam.com/)
Jiawen P.
Jiawen P. is a high school student, photographer, and designer living in Singapore. She is passionate about literature, art, Japanese, culture, 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 http://pekjw.tumblr.com/.
John McMahon
John McMahon is a writer, motorcycle tour operator, antiques exporter and sometimes educator who lives on the banks of the River Kwai in Kanchanaburi, Thailand. He blogs at somchaisapprentice.
Lindsay Shen
Lindsay Shen was born in the United Kingdom, and worked in the museum field in the United States. She has lived in China since 2007. In addition to her publications on the arts, she is the author of the literary biography Knowledge is Pleasure: Florence Ayscough in Shanghai (Hong Kong University Press, 2012) and has appeared at the Hong Kong and Shanghai International Literary Festivals. She was the editor of the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society China, 2013 and 2010.
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.
Ronald Wong
Ronald JJ Wong is a lawyer who enjoys creative writing. He has written and staged plays and had his short story published in Singaporean literary journal, Ceriph.
Stefanie Field
Stefanie Field is a graduate student pursuing a Master’s Degree in International Relations in Bangkok, Thailand. She also works as an intern at Human Development Forum Foundation. She hopes to become fluent in Thai and Japanese to translate Asian literature in the future.
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.
Thomas Donaldson
Thomas is an English painter based in Asia. His visceral works address political,sexual and ethical values. The works utilize the human figure juxtaposed with abstract mark making, which question moral implications of a consumer and self-obsessed driven culture. www.thomasdonaldson.biz
Xenia Taiga
Xenia Taiga lives in southern China. Her work is in Crack the Spine, Industry Night Literary, Four Way Review, Pithead Chapel, The Molotov Cocktail, The Font, Storm Cellar Quarterly, and other beautiful places.
