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Alvin PANG (Dr) is a poet, writer, editor and translator whose broad creative practice spans over two decades of literary and related activities in Singapore and elsewhere. Featured in the Oxford Companion to Modern Poetry in English, his writing has been translated into more than twenty languages, including Swedish, Croatian and Macedonian. His latest titles include WHAT HAPPENED: Poems 1997-2017 (2017) and UNINTERRUPTED TIME (2019). For his contributions to the literary arts, he has received Singapore's Young Artist of the Year Award, the Singapore Youth Award and the JCCI Education Award, among other accolades. The Editor-in-Chief of the public policy journal ETHOS, he also serves on several advisory boards, including the International Poetry Studies Institute at the University of Canberra and Rabbit: Journal of non-fiction poetry. In 2020, he completed a PhD in writing with RMIT University, in which he explored the possibilities of literary practice conducted across multiple languages, genres, careers and communities.

Priya Sarukkai Chabria is an award-winning poet, writer, translator and curator of eleven books, including four poetry collections, two SF novels, translations from Classical Tamil, literary nonfiction, a novel, and two poetry anthologies. Winner, Muse India Translation Prize, Kitaab Experimental Story Award, Best Reads from Feminist Press. Awarded by the Indian government for Outstanding Contribution to Literature. Appearances include Writer’s Centre, Norwich, Sun Yat-sen International Writers Program, Guangzhou, Commonwealth Literature Conference, Innsbruck, UCLA, JLF, etc. Priya collaborates with artists and channels Sanskrit aesthetics and Tamil Sangam poetics into her work. Anthologies publications include Another English Poems from Around the World, Asymptote, Avatar, Kenyon Review, MAI: Feminism, PEN International, Post Road, PR & TA, Reliquiae, South Asian Review, British Journal of Literary Translation, Literary Review(USA), Gollancz Book of South Asian Science Fiction I &II, etc. Founding Editor, Poetry at Sangam. She’s on the Advisory Council of G100, India, and WrICE, Australia. www.priyasarukkaichabria.com

MARJORIE EVASCO is a SEAWRITE 2010 and National Commission for Culture and the Arts Ani ng Dangal awardee, whose books have won the National Book Awards for poetry, oral history, biography, and art. She received the Writers’ Union of the Philippines (UMPIL) Pambansang Alagad Balagtas award for poetry in 2004; the Patnubay ng Sining at Kalinangan for literature from the City of Manila in 2005; the Outstanding Silliman University alumna award for creative writing in 2008; and the 2011 Carlos P. Garcia award for literature from Bohol, her home-island. She is a University Fellow and Professor Emeritus of Literature of De La Salle University, Manila. Her poems are published in Language for a New Century: Contemporary Voices from the Middle East, Asia and Beyond (2008), The World Record: International Voices from the Southbank Centre’s Poetry Parnassus (2012), AGAM: Filipino Narratives of Uncertainty in Climate Change (2014), Sustaining the Archipelago: Anthology of Philippine Ecopoetry (2017), and Harvest Moon: Poems and Stories from the Edge of the Climate Crisis (2021).

Dr Eugenia Flynn is Vice Chancellor’s Indigenous Postdoctoral Fellow in Writing and Publishing at the School of Media and Communication, RMIT University. Eugenia’s research has a primary focus on Indigenous literature and sits at the intersection between literary studies, creative writing, and critical Indigenous studies. Eugenia’s creative practice explores narratives of truth, grief, and devastation, interwoven with explorations of race and gender. Her essays, short stories and poems have been published in  NITV, Peril magazine, IndigenousX, The Lifted Brow, Borderless: A Transnational Anthology of Feminist Poetry and #MeToo: Stories From the Australian Movement. Her text work has appeared in exhibitions such as Waqt al-tagheer: Time of Change at ACE Open, Enough خلص Khalas: Contemporary Australian Muslim Artists at UNSW Galleries, and SOULfury at Bendigo Art Gallery.  Eugenia is an Aboriginal (Larrakia and Tiwi), Chinese Malaysian and Muslim woman who grew up on Kaurna land in Adelaide and now lives and works on Kulin country in Melbourne.

Roanna Gonsalves is the author of The Permanent Resident (UWAP) published in India and South Asia as Sunita De Souza Goes To Sydney (Speaking Tiger).  The book won the NSW Premier’s Literary Award Multicultural Prize 2018 and was longlisted for the Dobbie Literary Award 2018. Her four-part radio series On the tip of a billion tongues, commissioned and broadcast by ABC RN’s Earshot program, is a portrayal of contemporary India through its multilingual writers. Roanna holds a PHD and has been teaching and mentoring writers of all ages within communities as well as at schools and at New York University Sydney, UNSW, AFTRS, Western Sydney University and Macquarie University. She is a recipient of the Prime Minister’s Australia Asia Endeavour Award and is co-founder co-editor of Southern Crossings. She has been an invited keynote speaker and panellist at numerous literary events. She is a recipient of The Bridge Awards’ inaugural Varuna – Cove Park Writing Residency 2019 in Scotland, and was part of the Australia Council for the Arts’ India Literature Exploratory delegation 2020. She works as a Lecturer in Creative Writing at UNSW Sydney. Roanna can be found at roannagonsalves.com.au and @roannagonsalves. 

Hsu-Ming Teo is the Head of the Department of Media, Communications, Creative Arts, Language, and Literature at Macquarie University, Australia, where she teaches literature and creative writing. Her academic publications include Desert Passions: Orientalism and Romance Novels  (2012), the edited volume, The Popular Culture of Romantic Love in Australia  (ASP 2017), and the co-edited volumes Cultural History in Australia (UNSW 2003), and The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction (2020). She has published widely on Orientalism, imperialism, fiction, popular culture, love and popular romance studies. Her first novel, Love and Vertigo (2000), won The Australian/Vogel Literary Award and was shortlisted for several other awards. Her second novel Behind the Moon (2005) was shortlisted for the New South Wales Premier’s Literary Awards.