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Natalie Wang (SingPoWriMo 2019 / Issues ①–③) stumbled into SingPoWriMo as a wide-eyed student back in 2014 who thought a ‘liwuli’ was an actual literary form and that the Serious Poets never trolled and has not looked back since. She has gone from writing angsty breakup poems to angsty mother issue poems and somehow managed to get her writing published in journals including Cordite Poetry Review, Corvid Queen, LONTAR, The Kindling, Rambutan Literary, Quarterly Literary Review Singapore and anthologies likeSingPoWriMo and My Lot is a Sky (both Math Paper Press). She released her debut collection of poetry The Woman Who Turned into a Vending Machine (Math Paper Press) in 2018. You can find her on www.nataliewang.me.

Stephanie Dogfoot (SingPoWriMo 2019 / Issues ①–③) is a poet and stand up comic who has won national slam championships in Singapore (2010) and the UK (2012). A SingPoWriMo moderator and editor since 2017, she has represented Singapore at the Indian Ocean Poetry Slam Championships and the UK at the Poetry World Cup in Paris. Her work has been featured at the Melbourne Spoken Word Festival, the Ubud Writers and Readers Festival, and the Glastonbury Festival. Stephanie is the founder of Spoke & Bird, a poetry night in Singapore which features local and international artists. Her first collection, Roadkill for Beginners was published by Math Paper Press in 2019.

An ardent believer of the power of storytelling and its unique ability to bring people and communities together, Hidhir Razak (SingPoWriMo 2019–2020 / Issues ①–④) is a reader, writer, and researcher by training. His writings have appeared on The Middle Ground, Yahoo Singapore, and Poetry.sg while his creative works have appeared in numerous anthologies and collections in Singapore. He holds a MA in English with a specialisation in Creative Writing from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He likes cats and mee rebus, just not when the two are together. Don’t ask him about the novel he’s writing. Just don’t.

Cheyenne Alexandria Phillips (SingPoWriMo 2020–2021 / Issues ④–⑨) is a writer, performer, educator, and Associate Artist with Checkpoint Theatre. Her writing and performance credits include Vulnerable (2021), A Grand Design – an audio experience (2020), In The Twine (Singapore Writers Festival commission, 2018) and For The Record (Centre 42’s Basement Workshop Residency 2017). She has hosted eco-literary walks around MacRitchie Reservoir in collaboration with the Public Utilities Board (PUB) as part of Singapore Water Month 2018. Cheyenne’s writings can be found in QLRS, Contour: A Lyrical Cartography of Singapore (2019) and Who are you my country? (2018). She is also a licensed Tourist Guide.

Harini V (SingPoWriMo 2021 / Issue ⑦) is a bilingual poet who was the lead coordinator for the Tamil Young Writers Circle at the National Library Board, kickstarter and organiser of the Tamil Charter of SingPoWriMo in 2018 till 2020. She has organised Tamil open mics and taught Tamil writing workshops called Pennachudar with the Arts House. For her community service within the Tamil community she was awarded Mediacorp Tamil Seithi's Young Role Model award in 2019. A global affairs undergraduate from Yale-NUS College who is passionate about peace building and social cohesion she is currently pursuing a Masters in Conflict Resolution at Georgetown University.

Daryl Lim Wei Jie (SingPoWriMo 2021 / Issue ⑧) is a poet, editor, translator and literary critic from Singapore. His first book of poetry is A Book of Changes (2016). He is the co-editor of Food Republic: A Singapore Literary Banquet (2020), the first definitive anthology of literary food writing from Singapore. His latest collection of poetry is Anything but Human (2021). His poems won him the Golden Point Award in English Poetry in 2015, awarded by the National Arts Council, Singapore.

Dr. Jenny Mak (SingPoWriMo 2021 / Issue ⑨) is a writer and educator. Her work has been published in Entropy, the Read Me anthology, and shortlisted in the 2012 InkTears Short Story Competition. She has taught English Literature and Creative Writing at LASALLE College of the Arts, Nanyang Technological University, and University of Warwick. www.jennywhmak.com

Ang Shuang's work has been published by the Asian-American Writers' Workshop, the Rumpus, and Quarterly Literary Review Singapore, and included in anthologies such as SingPoWriMo, Twin Cities, and Call and Response. She was a winner of the Breakout 8 Writers Prize and a runner-up in the Two Sylvias Press Chapbook Prize. Shuang is currently an MFA student at Sarah Lawrence College, where she writes about looking at home from 9,000 miles away.

William Beale is an Australian-ish spoken word poet, or “a boy howling his way into the world,” and the author of They Call Us Loud. As a community arts producer, he’s been the co-organiser of the Malaysia National Poetry Slam, Slamalamadingdong and If Walls Could Talk.

Jennifer Anne Champion is a writer, literary arts educator and textile artist. She has been a member of SingPoWriMo since 2014 and co-edited its print anthology in 2015. She is also a co-founder of poetry.sg. Jennifer authored two collections of poetry (A History of Clocks and Caterwaul). Her work has also appeared in QLRS, The Straits Times and Esquire Magazine amongst others.

Ally Chua is a Singaporean poet. She is the 2019 Singapore Unbound Fellow for New York City, and a member of local writing collective /s@ber. Ally has been published in Quarterly Literary Review Singapore, Cordite Poetry Review, and Lammergeier Magazine. She writes when she's not replying to emails within seven working days.

Shalani Devi is an English Major, as well as an avid lover of cartoons and everything horror. She currently works with Sing Lit Station, and writes whenever she can.

Deborah Emmanuel (b.1988) is a Singaporean artist, most recognised for her work as a poet, singer and theatre-maker. Deborah’s gifts have taken her across oceans, from the spiritual settings of Bali and Kathmandu to the vibrant cities of Berlin, London and New York. Her powerful performances have been at select events like TEDx Singapore and The Performance Theatre, and have toured alongside performance poetry sensation Sarah Kay. 

Joses Ho is a neuroscientist by training and is currently as data scientist tracking emergent covid19 mutations across the globe. As tech sorceror for SingPoWriMo (the largest online month-long poetry-writing activity in Asia), he archives, analyses, and visualizes the poetry posted. As performer, he has been featured in Sing Lit Body Slam (the world's first spoken-word / pro-wrestling show), Spoke and Bird, and the Singapore Writers' Festival (2015, 2016, 2019). His fiction can be found at Nature Futures and LabLit. His poetry is published in QLRS, LONTAR, and various SingPoWriMo anthologies.

Ho Zhi Hui is a translator, teacher and writer. Born and raised in Singapore, she did her undergraduate degree in Politics, Philosophy and Economics at Oxford University and her Masters in Translation and Interpretation at Nanyang Technological University. She is currently working on a book of short stories, 《邻人的运气》(Neighbour’s Luck).

The intimate works of visual and performance artist ila (b.1985, Singapore) incorporate objects, moving images and live performance. Through weaving imagined narratives into existing realities, she seeks to create alternative nodes of experience and entry points into the peripheries of the unspoken, the tacit and the silenced. Using her body as a space of tension, negotiation and confrontation, her works generate discussion about gender, history and identity in relation to pressing contemporary issues.

Joshua Ip is the multiple award-winning author of three collections of poetry from Math Paper Press and the editor of multiple anthologies of Sing Lit. He is also a director and co-founder of the literary non-profit Sing Lit Station.

irie aman (they/them) is a creative and community organiser. Currently, they are the Editor-in-chief of the local rebel, and an open mic night organiser at dink, and a member of the writing commune /s@ber. Find them at irieaman.com

Dhinesha Karthigesu is a multidisciplinary storyteller, host of The Creative Curry Podcast and is Malaysia's first and only National Poetry Slam Champion. His work has been featured at schools, universities, festivals and on platforms like HowlRound Theatre Commons, Vice India and Vice Asia. Dhinesha is currently one of the directors for Theatresauce's Emerging Directors Lab of 2020/2021. You can find him online at Dhinesha.com

As a university student, Eugene Koh participated in various projects under Centre 42’s umbrella of programmes. He is also a co-founder of new experimental theatre node, Spacebar Theatre, which presented The Utama Spaceship at the M1 Singapore Fringe Festival 2020. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (Distinction) in Theatre Studies from the National University of Singapore. Outside of theatre, Eugene’s interests are wide and varied, from collecting banknotes, to reading up about writing systems, to dabbling in film photography.

Sonia Kwek's practice is rooted in exploring the material/ity of the body. Her works often unfold through performance, live art, installation and experiential experiments. She also works as a performer, creative collaborator, dramaturge, life model, facilitator-educator, etc, morphing in roles across varying projects and spaces. Interested in corporeal sensualities and the potency of kinesics, Sonia seeks to make space-time for intimate encounters and visceral experiences to express the ineffable. Sonia is a graduate of the Intercultural Theatre Institute and holds a Bachelor of Creative Industries with Distinction from Queensland University of Technology. She is an associate artist with dance company P7:1SMA.

Charis Loke illustrates stories, issues, garments, and maps. Her work draws upon literature and visual culture, exploring both real and fictional worlds. She is the Comics & Illustrations Editor at New Naratif and a committee member of Arts-ED, where she works on community-engaged arts and culture education for youth. Along with Budjette Tan, Charis co-edited the recently-published SOUND: A Comics Anthology, featuring 13 comics by Southeast Asian creators.

Lune Loh is a core member of /S@BER, a Singaporean writing collective. Her works have been published in Cha: An Asian Literary Journal, Cordite Poetry Review, 聲韻詩刊 Voice & Verse Poetry Magazine, SOFTBLOW, Math Paper Press' SingPoWriMo 2017 & 2018 anthologies, and Squircle Line Press' Anima Methodi anthology.

Max Loh is a comics maker and voracious eater. He is a founding member of UNNAMED and the co-author of the graphic novel, We'll Eat When We're Done with Dave Chua. He has been published by The Nib, New Naratif, Image Comics, and Maplé Comics. His latest work is a feature piece in The Nib’s Pandemic issue, weaving his personal and professional challenges with Malaysia’s questionable handling of underserved communities in the face of COVID-19.

Dee May is the founder/director of Plates, a biannual print publication that uses food as a conversation starter for meatier issues. She seeks out underreported human stories—in everyday ingredients—that speak to a niche global audience, who crave alternative narratives and believe in the value of sharing our plates. You may find her on Instagram (@deemaytan / @platesmagazine) or on Facebook.

Marc Nair is a poet and photographer from Singapore. His works bear witness to beauty, truth and hope. He has published and edited twelve books of poetry and is the co-founder and principal photographer of Mackerel, an online culture magazine. He is a recipient of the 2016 Young Artist Award.

The fluffball of energy known as Max Pasakorn (he/she/they) is a queer, Thai-born, Singapore-based poet and spoken word artist. Max is the winner of the NUS Creative Writing Competition 2018, Champion of the Singapore Poetry Slam (September 2017), and first runner-up of Utterly Changed: the Substation Writing Competition 2019. By day, Max studies liberal arts at Yale-NUS College. By night, Max writes poetry, practices makeup artistry and reads academic papers for their degree. Follow Max on Instagram at @maxpasakorn.

Zedeck Siew is a writer, translator, and game designer based in Port Dickson. With visual artist Sharon Chin, he created "Creatures of Near Kingdoms", an illustrated guide to imaginary Malaysian animals and plants. With visual artist Munkao he creates "A Thousand Thousand Islands", a series of tabletop-roleplaying-game zines inspired by Southeast Asia. The first ATTI book, "Reach of the Roach God", was recently crowdfunded on Kickstarter: bit.ly/rotrg

Karen Tan is an actor who has worked with practically every theatre company in Singapore. She is also obsessed with yarn, fabric, homeware, and pretty much anything that collects dust.

Teo Xiao Ting (b. 1995) is a writer and editor based in Singapore, whose preoccupations surround alternate forms of book-making and publishing as manifestations of truths-telling. Her practice integrates various forms of intimacies and daily life through responding to the arts.