Frank Stewart is the editor of Manoa: A Pacific Journal of International Writing; author of four books of poetry, and one of nonfiction on environmental liteature; editor of dozens of anthologies in addition to fifty volumes of Manoa. Winner of a Whiting Writers' Award, he is the president of the Manoa Foundation. 

Jeremy Tiang's short fiction has appeared in Meanjin, Ambit, Esquire, the Istanbul Review, and Best New Singaporean Short Stories. He has also translated five books from Chinese, and was recently awarded a PEN/Heim Translation Fund grant. Jeremy trained as an actor, and he is also a playwright.

Jee Leong Koh is the author of four books of poems: Payday Loans, Equal to the Earth, Seven Studies for a Self Portrait, and The Pillow Book. The curator of the website Singapore Poetry, he is organizing the first Singapore Literature Festival in New York City in October 2014.

Amanda Lee Koe is the fiction editor of Esquire (Singapore), editor of the creative nonfiction online magazine POSKOD.SG, co-editor of Singaporean literary journal Ceriph, and a 2013 Honorary Fellow of the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa.

Jason Erik Lundberg is the author and editor of over a dozen books, including the collection Strange Mammals, and the anthology The Epigram Books Collection of Best New Singaporean Short Stories: Volume One. He is also a recipient of a 2013 Creation Grant from Singapore's National Arts Council.