Contributor and Guest Editor Lawrence Lacambra Ypil is a poet and essayist from Cebu, Philippines. He recently received an MFA in Nonfiction Writing from the University of Iowa and an MFA in Poetry from Washington University in St Louis on a Fulbright Scholarship. His first book of poems, The Highest Hiding Place (2009) was given the […]Read Post ›

Contributor and Guest Editor Joshua Ip is a poet, editor, and literary organiser. He has published four poetry collections with Math Paper Press, won the Singapore Literature Prize for his debut, sonnets from the singlish, and placed in three different categories of the Golden Point Award. He has edited seven anthologies, including the A Luxury We Cannot Afford and SingPoWriMo series […]Read Post ›

Contributor and Guest Editor Wawa is a Hong Kong poet. She received her degrees in Philosophy in Hong Kong and the Netherlands. She has been a soprano, a philosophical counselling assistant, and a cowherd. Some of her work can be found in Cha, Guernica Daily, The Margins, Hawai’i Review, Apogee Journal, and the anthology Hong Kong 20/20: Reflections on […]Read Post ›

Contributor and Guest Editor Kyoko Yoshida has a collection of short stories Disorientalism from Vagabond Press in Sydney, and her short story is included in the inaugural issue of Singapore’s Books Actually Gold Standard 2016 anthology. She was born and raised in Fukuoka, studied in Kyoto and Milwaukee, and after 13 years of teaching English […]Read Post ›

Contest Judge and Guest Editor Ricardo M. de Ungria has published eight books of poetry and edited a number of anthologies, for which he has won eight National Book Awards. Through a Fulbright Grant, he received his MFA in Creative Writing from Washington University in St. Louis in 1989. He has received writing grants from […]Read Post ›

Contributor and Guest Editor Sreedhevi Iyer‘s book Jungle Without Water was shortlisted for the Penang Monthly Book Prize 2017. She has also been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Her research monograph comes out through John Benjamins’ Linguistic Approaches to Literature series. She was also Writer-In-Residence at Lingnan University of Liberal Arts, and currently resides in Melbourne. . Contributions: Issue #44 […]Read Post ›

Contributor and Guest Editor B.B.P. Hosmillo, author of The Essential Ruin (forthcoming), is a Southeast Asianist queer poet. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in SOFTBLOW, OCHO: A Journal for Queer Arts, The Ilanot Review, Kenning Journal, Toe Good Poetry, Kritika Kultura, The Missing Slate, Nude Bruce Review, Sundog Lit, Alice Blue Review, and many others. […]Read Post ›

Contributor and Guest Editor James Shea received an MFA in poetry from the University of Iowa and a BA (summa cum laude) in philosophy and English from Loyola University Chicago. He is the author of Star in the Eye and The Lost Novel, both from Fence Books. His poems have appeared in various publications, including […]Read Post ›

Tea Taster Tea is not really Zabrina Lo‘s ‘cup of tea’, but watching films and stage productions, and reading and writing definitely are. Zabrina graduated from Sacred Heart Canossian College, where she was an editor and writer of Concord, the school magazine, for three years. In 2008 and 2009, she was invited to be the […]Read Post ›

Contributor and Contest Judge Vinita Agrawal, author of Words Not Spoken, is a Mumbai-based, award-winning poet and writer. Her poems have appeared in Cha, Constellations, The Fox Chase Review, Pea River Journal, Open Road Review, Stockholm Literary Review, Poetry Pacific, Spark, The Brown Critique, Mandala, among others. She was nominated for the Best of the Net […]Read Post ›

Contributor and Guest Editor  David William Hill served as assistant editor for two oral history books from Voice of Witness, Invisible Hands: Voices from the Global Economy (McSweeney’s, 2014) and Underground America: Narratives of Undocumented Lives (McSweeney’s, 2008.) His fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in [PANK], Cha, Chicago Quarterly Review, Arroyo Literary Review, Hobart, […]Read Post ›

Contributor, Guest Editor and Workshop Mentor Jason S Polley is Associate Professor of contemporary fiction at Hong Kong Baptist University. He completed his PhD at McGill University, Montreal, in 2007. His research interests include Irish fiction, postmodern literature, comix and graphic novels, post-structuralism, and contemporary Indian fiction. He has published articles on women and property […]Read Post ›

Contributor, Guest Editor and Workshop Mentor Kate Rogers is originally from Canada and she currently teaches at City University Hong Kong. Her first poetry collection, Painting the Borrowed House (Proverse), appeared in 2008 and her second, City of Stairs (Proverse), debuted in Toronto and Hong Kong in 2012. She is a co-editor of the women’s poetry anthology, Not A […]Read Post ›

Contributor and Guest Editor  Originally from Ireland, Michael O’Sullivan is an Associate Professor teaching literature in Chinese University Hong Kong. He writes short stories, poems and essays and he has published a book on James Joyce and Marcel Proust and a book on Michel Henry. His essays appear in such journals as Mosaic and Parallax. His most […]Read Post ›

Contributor, Contest Judge and Guest Editor Daryl Qilin Yam is an aspiring Singaporean writer of prose and poetry, currently reading English Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Warwick. He is also the editorial intern at studioKALEIDO and for literary journal Ceriph, while also managing the non-profit theatre production group Take Off Productions in […]Read Post ›

Contributor and Guest Editor Jenna Le was born and raised in Minneapolis, Minnesota, a daughter of Vietnamese immigrants, but now lives in New York City. She holds a degree in mathematics from Harvard University and has worked as a physician in Queens and the Bronx, New York. She is the author of Six Rivers (NYQ […]Read Post ›

Contributor and Guest Editor Born in California in 1956, David Raphael Israel was educated at a Quaker school. He’s written poetry from a young age. After studying classical Chinese at UC Berkeley, he dabbled in arts journalism, focusing on music. He wrote and edited at EAR Magazine (NYC), then moved to Washington, DC. Shifting to […]Read Post ›

Contributor and Guest Editor Rheea Mukherjee received her MFA in creative writing from California College of the Arts in San Francisco. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Ultra Violet, Southern Humanities Review, Cha, Out-Of-Print, Bengal Lights, Every Day Fiction, and A Gathering of Tribes. Her previous fiction has been a Top 25 finalist […]Read Post ›

Contributor and Guest Editor Dorothy Chan was a 2014 finalist for the Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Blackbird, Plume, and Spillway. In 2012, The Writing Disorder nominated her poem “Ikebukuro Train Rides” for a Pushcart. Contributions: Issue #38 (December 2017): Ode to Hong Kong Noodle […]Read Post ›

Contributor and Guest Editor Michael Gray won a 2012 AWP Intro Journals Project Award and the 2013 Hot Street Emerging Writers Contest, was nominated for Best New Poets 2014, and named a finalist in The Lit Pub’s 1st Annual Poetry Contest and the SpringGun Press 2014 Open Reading Period. His translations of Yau Ching appear in Shadow […]Read Post ›

Contributor and Contest Judge Andrew Barker operates the free online poetry lectures website mycroftlectures – YouTube and is the author of the poetry collection Snowblind from My Protective Colouring (Chameleon Press). He holds a PhD in American Literature and an MA in Anglo-Irish Literature and he is currently teaching at Hong Kong Baptist University. Contributions: […]Read Post ›

Guest Tea Taster Benjamin Huang lives in Pasadena, California, on the easternmost border of the Pacific Rim. He is a graduate of Yale (BA), the Iowa Writers’ Workshop (MFA) and the University of California, Irvine (PhD) and has taught at a number of West Coast colleges and universities, most recently the University of Southern California. He has published his work […]Read Post ›

Contributor and Guest Editor Although raised in New England, Kaitlin Solimine [website] has considered China a second home since 1996. Graduated from the MFA program in writing at UC-San Diego in 2011, she was previously a Harvard-Yenching scholar at Beijing University (2000) and a U.S. Department of State Fulbright Creative Arts Fellow in China (2006-2007) […]Read Post ›

Guest Tea Taster Stefani Kuo is a senior at Deerfield Academy, and is currently the editor-in-chief for the art and literary magazine Albany Road, the editor for the humor magazine Slightly Ajar, and journalist and book reviewer for the newspaper Scroll. Her prose and poetry has been published in all three publications as well as […]Read Post ›

Guest Tea Taster Matt Shoard won the Poetry Society’s Young Poet of the Year Award and a Frogmore Press Short Shorts Fiction Prize. He edits Fleeting Magazine and writes about books and culture for The Guardian. He is currently teaching creative writing, working on a PhD and writing his first novel The Space. Contributions: A […]Read Post ›

Contributor, Guest Editor and Staff Reviewer Michael Tsang is a native of Hong Kong, and holds a PhD from the University of Warwick, researching on Hong Kong English writing. His broader research interests are on postcolonial and world literature with an Asian focus. He writes stories and poems in his spare time, and is always interested in […]Read Post ›

Contributor and Guest Editor Berit Ellingsen [website] was born in South-Korea, grew up in Norway and has lived in Portugal, Sweden and the US. Her fiction and non-fiction has appeared in various literary journals and anthologies, including Bluestem, Cha, Thunderclap, SmokeLong Quarterly, Metazen and decomP magazinE (More stories here). She received an honorable mention in the 2011 Glass Woman Ghost Story Competition. […]Read Post ›

Contributor, Guest Editor and Contest Judge Marc Vincenz reads “Unfathomable Mammals”, first published in PIF Magazine and reprinted in October Babies: Marc Vincenz was born in Hong Kong during the height of the Cultural Revolution to Swiss-British parents. His poems and translations have appeared extensively online and in print, including Washington Square Review, The Bitter Oleander, Canary, […]Read Post ›

Contributor and Guest Editor Lucas Klein — a former radio DJ and union organizer — is a writer, translator, and editor of Cipher Journal. His translations, essays and poems have appeared or are forthcoming at Two Lines, Jacket, and Drunken Boat, and he has regularly reviewed books for Rain Taxi and other venues. A graduate […]Read Post ›

Contributor and Guest Tea Taster  Sumana Roy teaches at the Department of Humanities, Jalpaiguri Government Engineering College. An early draft of her first novel, Love in the Chicken’s Neck, was long listed for the Man Asian Literary Prize 2008. Her poems, fiction and essays have appeared in 21 Under 40 (Zubaan), The New Anthem (Westland), […]Read Post ›

Contributor and Guest Tea Taster  Droning in the aesthetic purgatory between consciousness and seizure, Troubadour walks the thin line between what could be as much of an Ah-hah moment as a Blah-Blah experience. His visions are single-minded soliloquies of a triumph, usually about or over nothing. Always scavenging for the granular visions trapped between volition […]Read Post ›

Guest Tea Taster  Daniel A. Nicholls lives above a traffic circle in Keene, NH, and writes as a part of the Starving Artist Collective. He tweets about art and literature @nomopoetry. . Contributions: A Cup of Fine Tea: Ji Shengli’s “Policemen” [Read] – –

Contributor and Guest Tea Taster  W.F. Lantry [website], a native of San Diego, received his Maîtrise from L’Université de Nice, M.A. in English from Boston University and PhD in Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Houston. In 2010 he won the Lindberg Foundation International Poetry for Peace Prize (in Israel), the Crucible Editors’ […]Read Post ›

Guest Tea Taster  Marybeth Rua-Larsen lives on the south coast of Massachusetts in the USA and teaches basic composition and ESL at Bristol Community College. Her poems, essays, flash fiction and reviews have appeared or are forthcoming in The Raintown Review, Lilt, The Shit Creek Review, The Flea, Measure, Verse Wisconsin, The Nervous Breakdown and Newport […]Read Post ›

Contributor and Guest Tea Taster  Rumjhum Biswas [blog] has been published in India and abroad, in online and print journals and anthologies. One of her poems was long listed in the Bridport Poetry Prize 2006 and was also a finalist in the 2010 Aesthetica Creative Arts Contest. She has won prizes in poetry contests in India. Her poem “March” […]Read Post ›

Contributor and Guest Editor  Ivy reads “Fossil”: Ivy Alvarez is the author of Mortal (Washington, DC: Red Morning Press, 2006). A recipient of writing residencies from MacDowell Colony (USA), Hawthornden Castle (UK) and Fundacion Valparaiso (Spain), her poetry is published in journals and anthologies in many countries and online. Visit her website for more details. […]Read Post ›

Contributor, Guest Editor and Contest Judge Jason Eng Hun Lee is a co-ordinator and member of the OutLoud and Joyce is not Here poetry groups in Hong Kong and has featured regularly in the Man Hong Kong International Literary Festival. He has been published in the U.K., Singapore and Hong Kong, and was nominated by […]Read Post ›

Contributor, Guest Tea Taster and Public Relations Manager Yip Wai Shan Marie is a Hong Kong-based photographer who enjoys discovering the unusuals in the usuals through photography. While discovering, she may forget to walk or talk to people around her and they may regard her as either lunatic or rude. Her photograph entitled “Girlfriends, please […]Read Post ›

Contributor and Staff Reviewer Alice Tsay urrently resides in Michigan. A native of California, she has taught English in Hong Kong and Taiwan and holds degrees from Amherst College and Oxford University. In December 2010, Tsay joined Cha’s editorial team as Staff Reviewer. Contributions: Issue #7 (May 2009): The Ventriloquist: Andy Barker’s Snowblind from my Protective […]Read Post ›

Contributor and Guest Tea Taster Originally from China, Vivian Ding Xiaoyu [blog] is an MPhil student at the University of Hong Kong. She loves reading and writing poetry and enjoys spending her day-offs on high terraces, near the waters, and in the dark corner of the theater. Her poem “Lesen” and play “Shackle and Shelter” […]Read Post ›

Contributor and Guest Editor Mag Tan Yee Mei received her B.A. in History of Art and English Literature from the University of East Anglia. She was the Heritage Open Days 2012 Assistant at Norwich HEART and is currently working on a second collection of short stories in Singapore. Her first collection The Eyesmith and Other […]Read Post ›

Contributor and Guest Editor Divya Rajan‘s work has appeared extensively in literary journals, the most recent being an anthology titled Contemporary Indian English Poetry, edited by Dr Paula Hayes, Strayer University, Memphis. She has served on the editorial boards of The Furnace Review (Poetry) and the Best of the Net anthologies, 2010 and 2011 (Non- fiction). Originally […]Read Post ›

Contributor and Guest Editor Robert E. Wood teaches in the School of Literature, Communication, and Culture at Georgia Tech. His film studies include essays on Fosse, DePalma, and Verhoeven, as well as The Rocky Horror Picture Show. He is the author of Some Necessary Questions of the Play, a study of Hamlet. His poetry has […]Read Post ›

Contributor and Guest Editor Mai Mang (Yibing Huang) was born in Changde, Hunan, China and inherited Tujia ethnic minority blood from his mother. After receiving his B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. in Chinese Literature from Beijing University, he moved to the U.S. in 1993. He holds a second Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of […]Read Post ›

Webmaster and Tea Taster Jarno Jakonen is from Finland. He is ‘criminally underappreciated’ (read more about this here). He currently lives in America.  Contributions: All Issues: Webmaster A Cup of Fine Tea [Read] A Cup of Fine Tea: Gillian Sze’s “Sonnet II” [Read] A Cup of Fine Tea: Aryanil Mukherjee’s “Hand Movements of a Puppeteer” [Read] A […]Read Post ›

Contributor and Guest Editor Ankur reads his “The Lamplighter”, published in Barnwood International Poetry Magazine in 2008: Ankur Agarwal is from India. His poetry has been published before (or due to be published) in Paper Wall, Barnwood Poetry Magazine, Other Poetry, Ink Sweat & Tears, and Halfway Down the Stairs, among others, and his haiku in […]Read Post ›

Contributor and Guest Editor E.K. Entrada‘s [website] fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in several print journals, including Kyoto, Story Philippines, The Philippines Free Press,Keyhole, Monkeybicycle, Asians in America Magazine, Audience Literary Journal, and elsewhere. Her fiction often features young protagonists like Manuel Santo. She is currently working on a young adult novel. She lives […]Read Post ›

Contributor and Guest Editor Born in 1981, Sam Byfield is the author of From the Middle Kingdom (Pudding House Press). Recent publication credits include Heat, Cordite, Famous Reporter and the Poetry Without Borders anthology (Australia), The National Poetry Review and The Cream City Review (USA), Nimesis and The Warwick Review (UK) and The Asia Literary […]Read Post ›

Contributor and Guest Editor Jonathan Mendelsohn [website], an instructor of English at the University of Toronto, is currently working on his first novel. The book, which might just be a love story, is set in Japan, where he lived for five years. He has previously published in newspapers in Canada and magazines in Japan, including areviewof […]Read Post ›