Eliot Weinberger
Eliot Weinberger’s books of literary essays and poetry include An Elemental Thing, The Ghosts of Birds, Angels & Saints, and The Life of Tu Fu. His political writings are collected in What I Heard About Iraq and What Happened Here: Bush Chronicles.
Srikanth Reddy
Srikanth Reddy’s latest book of poetry, Underworld Lit, was a finalist for the Griffin International Poetry Prize, the T.S. Eliot Four Quartets Prize, and a TLS “Book of the Year” for 2020. He is also the author of Voyager, named one of the best books of poetry in 2011 by The New Yorker, The Believer, and National Public Radio.
Jeffrey Yang
Jeffrey Yang is the author of four poetry books: Line and Light; Hey, Marfa (winner of the Southwest Book Award and a 2014 New York Times Best Book of the Year); Vanishing-Line; and An Aquarium (winner of the PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award). He is the translator of Bei Dao’s Sidetracks (chosen as a 2024 Best Book of the Year by TIME, NPR, and The New Yorker) and his autobiography City Gate, Open Up.
María Negroni
María Negroni published numerous books, including: Arte y Fuga, Cantar la nada, Elegía Joseph Cornell, Interludio en Berlín, Exilium, Objeto Satie, Archivo Dickinson, and Oratorio (poetry); Ciudad Gótica, Museo Negro, El testigo lúcido, Galería Fantástica, Pequeño Mundo Ilustrado, El arte del error, La idea natural, and Colección permanente (essays); El sueño de Úrsula, La Anunciación, and El corazón del daño (fiction).
Hai-Sui Yu
Hai-Sui Yu, who writes under the pen-name Nan Xiangzi, was born in Huizhou, Anhui Province, China. He is a world-famous expert in geomechanics as well as a poet. He completed his DPhil at the University of Oxford, and he is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering.
Alvin Pang
Alvin Pang, PhD, is an internationally active poet, editor, photographer and translator from Singapore. Featured in the Oxford Companion to Modern Poetry in English and the Penguin Book of the Prose Poem, his writing has been translated into more than twenty languages, including volumes in Croatian, Chinese, French, German, Indonesian, Macedonian, Slovene, Spanish and Swedish.
Kulleh Grasi
Kulleh Grasi is a multidisciplinary artist who champions and fights for the arts and culture of the native people of Borneo, especially the Iban tribe. Being professionally involved in the performing arts with his band, Nading Rhapsody, since 2012 has opened up various opportunities for him to continue working in the arts scene.
You Yipiao
You Yipiao, is a pen name for Yow Cheun Hoe. Born in 1970 in Kampar, a town in Perak state of Malaysia, he is teaching at the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, where he serves as the Director of the Centre for Chinese Language and Centre and was the Head of the Chinese Program and the Director of the Chinese Heritage Centre.
Ōsaki Sayaka
Born in Kanagawa, Japan in 1982, Ōsaki self-published her debut poetry collection, The Ground (地面), in 2011. Second anthology Pointing Impossible (指差すことができない) was published from Seidosha and awarded Nakahara Chuya Prize in 2014, her fifth work Open Hands in the Dark (暗闇に手をひらく) from Little More was awarded Hagiwara Sakutaro Prize in 2025.
Jacky Man-leuk Yuen
Jacky Man-leuk Yuen received his PhD in Biochemistry from the Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is a part-time lecturer at the School of Biomedical Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, a newspaper columnist, and a tutor for creative writing classes.
Ye Hui
Ye Hui is an acclaimed Chinese metaphysical poet who lives in the countryside of Nanjing. He is the author of three poetry collections, At the Candy Shop (1999), The Correspondence (2009), and The Ruins (2019).
Zhu Yu
Zhu Yu, a poet, critic, and essayist, is currently an Associate Professor at Suzhou University. He has published many books, including most recently Tact. He has received many honors, including the Zijin Mountain Literary Award, the Yangtze River Poetry Award, and the Rougang Poetry Prize.
Jiang Libo
Jiang Libo (penname of Chen Jianong) is from Shengzhou, Zhejiang. Previously a teacher, he is the editor-in-chief of Poetry Engine and the founder of the Grindstone Bookstore. His publications include Folding Moon (1992), The Empire Teahouse (2017), Index and Miasma (2020), Hearing Exam (2022), The Archaeology of Shame (2023), and Breathing Exercises (2024).
Li Nan
Li Nan was born in Qinghai in 1964 and currently lives in Shijiazhuang, Hebei. He began writing poetry in 1983. His works have been included in numerous anthologies both in China and abroad.
Du Lülü
Du Lülü is a poet and critic. Her main poetry collections are Approximation, Adventure Island, She Has Not Met a Brown Horse, Let Us Talk About the Right Flame, and The Riddle of the City-State.