Malachi Edwin Vethamani is the Founding Editor of the journal and Poetry Editor who will manage the Poetry section. He has published five volumes of poetry and two volumes of short stories. As editor, he has several volumes of Malaysian and international collections of poetry and short stories. Ismail S. Talib in ‘The Journal of Commonwealth Literature’ (2023) stated that in 2022 ‘the most prominent figure in Malaysian poetry was Malachi Edwin Vethamani, who is, without doubt, one of the leading English-language poets in Malaysia’. The Malaysian Publishers Association awarded his edited volume, Malchin Testament: Malaysian Poems, the National Book Award 2020 for the English Language category. He is Emeritus Professor with the University of Nottingham.
Danton Remoto is Prose Editor and will manage the fiction section. He has published 40 books of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, anthologies, textbooks and translations in a long writing career. He was educated at Ateneo de Manila University (Legal Management), Miami University (Creative Writing), Rutgers University (Literature), University of the Philippines (English Studies) and University of Stirling (Publishing). He has worked as Dean and Interim President at The Manila Times College, Head of School of English at the University of Nottingham Malaysia, Head of Communications at the United Nations Development Programme, Head of Research at TV5, and Director of Publications at Ateneo de Manila University. He lives in the Philippines and the U.S.
Anitha Devi Pillai is Prose Editor who will manage the fiction section. Anitha Devi Pillai (Dr) is a fiction editor, poet, writer, translator whose work foregrounds nuance, voice, and the emotional interiors of everyday life. She writes with a particular love for emotionally precise, character-driven fiction rooted in everyday intimacy, food, memory, and cultural belonging. Her short stories and poems have been published in international literary journals, and she has been an invited speaker at literary festivals. She has edited five short story collections: A View of Stars (Marshall Cavendish, 2020), A Tapestry of Colours Vols. 1 & 2 (Marshall Cavendish, 2021), Unsaid (Penguin, 2022), and The Best Asian Short Story Collection (2023). Anitha has served as a judge for major literary prizes, including the Epigram Books Fiction Prize, the Singapore Book Awards, and the Dr Alan HJ Chan ‘Spirit of Singapore’ Book Prize. She was Co-Director of the 17th International Conference on the Short Story in English and is currently Fiction Editor of the PR&TA Journal. Her forthcoming short story collection, What the Tongue Remembers (2026, Penguin Random House), will be her eleventh book. She is also an academic in anthropological linguistics and creative writing at the National Institute of Education (NTU, Singapore).
Yee Heng Yeh is Prose Editor. Interviews, book reviews and creative non-fiction will be under his purview. He is also a poet, writer, and translator. His writing has appeared in adda, Strange Horizons, SUSPECT, Portside Review, This Is Southeast Asia, and Penang Monthly. In 2023, he was a resident artist at Rimbun Dahan and a Writing Fellow at A Public Space. He was also a Chevening Scholar 2024/2025 and won the Dream Foundry Contest for Emerging Writers in 2025, and is currently the poetry editor for NutMag. You can find him on Twitter and Bluesky @HengYeh42.
Jhilam Chattaraj is Poetry Editor. She is an academic, critic and poet. She has authored the books, Sudeep Sen: Reading, Writing, Teaching (2026), Noise Cancellation (2021), Corporate Fiction: Popular Culture and the New Writers (2018), and When Lovers Leave and Poetry Stays (2018). Her works have been published in Michigan Quarterly Review, Changing Skies (University of Colorado), Mekong Review, Ecocene, New Contrast Magazine, One Art Poetry Journal, Calyx, Ariel, Room, Porridge, Queen Mob’s Tea House, Colorado Review, World Literature Today and Asian Cha among others. She received the CTI Excellence Award in ‘Literature and Soft Skills Development’ (2019), from the Council for Transforming India and the Department of Language and Culture, Government of Telangana, India. Her poem, ‘Sari’ was nominated for the Nina Riggs Poetry Award (2023). Jhilam teaches at the Department of English and Foreign Languages, RBVRR Women’s College, Hyderabad.
Augustine Chay is Copy Editor. He is currently awaiting conferment for his Joint PhD in English Literature from the National University of Singapore (NUS) and King’s College London (KCL). His research interests lie at the intersections of (post)colonial trauma studies, memory studies, and Cold War decolonisation. His work has been published in the Journal of Postcolonial Writing.
Ivan Ling is Editorial Associate. He currently works as an editor at Sunway University Press, while also being an avid book reviewer, poet, and postgraduate student at Universiti Malaya. His works have been published in several journals, magazines, and prints, such as Men Matters Online, Southeast Asian Review of English, Eksentrika, Malaysian Places and Spaces: Poems (Maya Press: 2024) and Contours of Him (Hawakal Publishers: 2025). He was also recently awarded the Second Place Winner of the Best Manuscript Editor Award in the Social Sciences and Humanities Category by the Malaysian Scholarly Publishing Council (MAPIM) at the 16th MAPIM-KPT Award Ceremony.