Farah Abdessamad is a French-Tunisian writer who has worked and lived in Cambodia in 2008-2009 and in 2019. She is currently writing a literary fiction set in Japanese-occupied Cambodia, and is based in New York City.
Farida Ali @farida_art is an art historian and writer. Her work has appeared in Scroll and elsewhere.
Adolfo Arranz is Deputy Head of infographics and illustration at the South China Morning Post.
Salvatore Babones (@sbabones) is an American sociologist at the University of Sydney. His research takes a long-term approach to interpreting the structure of the global economy, with a particular focus on China. He is the author of American Tianxia: Chinese money, American power and the end of history (Policy 2017).
Jill Baker is an Adjunct Fellow at the Asia Business Council in Hong Kong and a contributor to Forbes.com.
David Bellis is the founder of gwulo.com, a Hong Kong history website.
Andrea Bettinelli Dal Cin is co-founder of Solomusica, which coordinates classical music relations between Asia and Europe.
Frank Beyer's writing has appeared in the LA Review of Books, Anak Sastra and Headland Journal.
Kiran Bhat is a writer currently living in Melbourne.
Jenny Bhatt is a writer, literary translator and book critic.
Shahbano Bilgrami is the author of Those Children (HarperCollins, 2017) and the Man Asian Literary Prize-longlisted Without Dreams (HarperCollins, 2007).
Dr Joshua Bird is an international development professional working across the Asia-Pacific and the author of Economic Development in China's Northwest: Entrepreneurship and identity along China’s multi-ethnic borderlands (Routledge, July 2017).
Susan Blumberg-Kason is the author of Good Chinese Wife: A Love Affair with China Gone Wrong.
Paul Bromberg is the author of Thai Silver and Nielloware, a contributing editor of Arts of Asia magazine, and the editor of The Journal of the Siam Society.
Kerry Brown is Professor of Chinese Politics and Director of the Lau China Institute at King's College, London. His most recent book is Hu Jintao: China's Silent Ruler. For more writings see kerry-brown.co.uk.
Will Buckingham is a writer of fiction and non-fiction for adults and children. He is currently a reader in Writing and Creativity at the Faculty of Humanities at De Montfort University in the UK. He is the author of Sixty-Four Chance Pieces and Lucy and the Rocket Dog.
Now based in Washington, DC, Agnès Bun is a French reporter who has previously worked out of New Delhi and Hong Kong. She won the Daniel Pearl Award in 2010 and is the author of There’s No Poetry in a Typhoon: Vignettes from Journalism’s Front Lines (Abbreviated Press).
John Butler recently retired as Associate Professor of Humanities at the University College of the North in The Pas, Manitoba, Canada, and has taught at universities in Canada, Nigeria and Japan. He specializes in early modern travel-literature (especially Asian travel) and seventeenth-century intellectual history. His books include an edition of Sir Thomas Herbert’s Travels in Africa, Persia and Asia the Great (2012) and most recently an edition of Sir Paul Rycaut's Present State of the Ottoman Empire (1667) and a book of essays, Off the Beaten Track: Essays on Unknown Travel Writers.
Aoife Cantrill is a PhD student at the University of Oxford. She is currently working on a history of translation in 20th century Taiwan.
Arvyn Cerézo is a Manila-based writer/journalist covering arts, culture, books, and technology.
David Chaffetz is the author of Three Asian Divas: Women, Art and Culture in Shiraz, Delhi and Yangzhou (Abbreviated Press, November 2019). His forthcoming book Horse Power will be published by WW Norton in 2023.
Dorothy Chan is the author of Chinatown Sonnets, winner of New Delta Review’s 6th Annual Chapbook Contest. She is the Assistant Editor of The Southeast Review.
Jonathan Chatwin is the author of The Southern Tour: Deng Xiaoping and the Fight for China’s Future, travelogue Long Peace Street: A walk in modern China and Anywhere Out of the World, a literary biography of the traveler and writer Bruce Chatwin. He holds a PhD in English Literature.
Rajat Chaudhuri is an Indian novelist and short story writer.
Choo Waihong was a corporate lawyer with top law firms in Singapore and California before she took early retirement in 2006 and began writing travel pieces for publications such as China Daily. She lived for seven years with the Mosuo tribe and now spends half the year with them in Yunnan, China. She is the author of The Kingdom of Women: Life, Love and Death in China's Hidden Mountains.
Mark Clifford is Executive Director of the Asia Business Council.
Nigel Collett won the 2017 Hong Kong History Book Prize for A Death in Hong Kong. His other books include The Butcher of Amritsar: Brigadier-General Reginald Dyer and Firelight of a Different Colour, a biography of Hong Kong actor Leslie Cheung.
Fiona Collins is a Japanese print cataloguer and researcher at the Worcester Art Museum. She holds an MA in Japanese Studies from SOAS, University of London, and her research interests include premodern Japanese design and material culture studies.
Chris Corker is a PhD candidate at York University and a published translator of Japanese literature.
Scott Crawford is a writer and historian based in Beijing.
Richard Cullen is a Visiting Professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Hong Kong. He is co-author of No Third Person: Rewriting the Hong Kong Story (Abbreviated Press).
Serena De Marchi is a postdoctoral researcher of Chinese and Sinophone literature currently based in Taipei.
Gayatri Devi is Professor of English at the Savannah College of Art and Design in Savannah, Georgia.
Mahika Dhar is a writer, essayist, and book reviewer based in New Delhi. She is the creator of bookcrumbs and her short stories have appeared in Seaglass Literary, Through Lines and Minimag among others.
Jame DiBiasio is the author of The Story of Angkor (Silkworm Books, 2014).
Ashley Galina Dudarenok is the founder of several startups, including social media agency Alarice and resources platform ChoZan. She is the author of Unlocking the World’s Largest E-market: A Guide To Selling on Chinese Social Media
Modern Ink series editor and co-author of Modern Ink: The Art of Qi Baishi Britta Erickson, PhD, is an independent scholar and curator. She now serves as artistic director at INK Studio, a Beijing gallery devoted to contemporary ink artists. Her current projects include the production of a film series, The Enduring Passion for Ink.
Amelia Ashley Fang is a university student in Canada, studying literature.
Jason Keith Fernandes is a post-doctoral researcher at the Centro de Estudos Internacionais – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa.
Alison Fincher (@FincherAlison) is a student of Japanese and an independent researcher of contemporary Japanese fiction. Read Japanese Literature is her podcast about Japanese literature and some of its best works.
Alessandro Ford is a freelance journalist. He was the first UK student to attend Kim Il Sung University in North Korea and now writes about the country and its greater role in East Asia
Glyn Ford is a former Euro-MP and author of North Korea on the Brink. His Talking to North Korea: Ending the Nuclear Standoff was published by Pluto in September.
Angus Forsyth is an internationally respected collector of, and authority on, Chinese jade. Former president of the Oriental Ceramics Society of Hong Kong, he is author of Ships of the Silk Road: The Bactrian Camel in Chinese Jade (Bloomsbury 2019).
Nashua Gallagher is the founding director of Peel Street Poetry, a literary arts collective that have run spoken word sessions and other events in Hong Kong since 2005. Her debut poetry collection is All the Words a Stage.
Michael Goebel is Professor of Global and Latin American History at the Freie Universität Berlin. He is the author of Anti-Imperial Metropolis: Interwar Paris and the Seeds of Third World Nationalism (Cambridge University Press, 2015) and Argentina’s Partisan Past: Nationalism and the Politics of History (Liverpool University Press, 2011).
Formerly editor heading the English-language list at Penguin Random House North Asia, Anya Goncharova is a Literary Agent at Peony Literary Agency and Tender Leaves Translations.
Nicholas Gordon has an MPhil from Oxford in International Relations and a BA from Harvard. He is a writer, editor and occasional radio host based in Hong Kong.
Peter Gordon is editor of the Asian Review of Books.
Elizabeth T Gray, Jr is a poet, and a translator of Persian and Tibetan literature. Her most recent book is Salient (New Directions, May 2020).
Guo Xiaolu is the author of, most recently, A Lover’s Discourse and Once Upon a Time in the East.
A journalist by training, Mariyam Haider is a writer, poet and communications consultant in Singapore . She is the researcher of the book The Billionaire Raj: A Journey Through India's New Gilded Age written by James Crabtree. Her writing has appeared in Hindustan Times, Livemint, Feminism In India, New Asian Writing and Kitaab.
Brian Haman is the Book Review Editor of The Shanghai Literary Review. A former Fulbright Scholar, he holds a PhD and an MA from the University of Warwick in the UK and splits his time between China and Europe.
Hammond writes the Amgalant series, historical fiction based on the Secret History of the Mongols.
Tim Hannigan is the author of Murder in the Hindu Kush, shortlisted for the Boardman Tasker Prize; Raffles and the British Invasion of Java which won the 2013 John Brooks Award; A Brief History of Indonesia; and Travel Writing Tribe: Journeys in Search of a Genre.
Zeina Hashem Beck is a Lebanese poet who lives in Dubai. Her most recent collection, Louder than Hearts, won the 2016 May Sarton New Hampshire Poetry Prize. Her chapbook, There Was and How Much There Was, is a 2016 Laureate’s Choice, selected by Carol Ann Duffy. Her work has also appeared in Ploughshares, Poetry, Poetry Northwest, Ambit, and The Rialto, among others.
Humphrey Hawksley is a journalist, an author and foreign correspondent for the BBC.
Jenny He is a freelance writer and translator, reading for a PhD at the University of Warwick. She is a trustee for Charity Translators @LanguageVoices
Rick Henry was a Professor of English at SUNY—Potsdam where he directed the BFA in Creative Writing.
A former US Marine and Iraq war veteran, Dr James Herndon worked in Udaipur, India while completing his PhD in Economics. He currently works as a consultant in Birmingham, Alabama.
Mary Hillis (@mhillis) is a teacher and writer based in Japan.
Melanie Ho is the author of Journey to the West: He Hui, a Chinese Soprano in the World of Italian Opera.
Tammy Ho Lai-Ming teaches at Hong Kong Baptist University and is co-editor of the journal Cha. Her latest poetry collection is Hula Hooping.
Poet Viki Holmes has been living and writing in Hong Kong since 2005. She is author of miss moon’s class (Chameleon Press, 2008) and Girls’ Adventure Stories of Long Ago (Chameleon Press, 2017) and co-editor of Not A Muse (Haven Books, 2009).
Farrukh Husain is a lawyer as well as author of Afghanistan in the Age of Empires (2018) covering the first Anglo-Afghan war; he has worked as a history researcher for academics and William Dalrymple.
Kyle Hutzler is an MBA candidate at Stanford, previously with the consultancy McKinsey & Company.
BVE Hyde is a Researcher in Philosophy at Durham University.
Dragoș Ilca was born and raised in Romania. He studied literature in Amsterdam and Hong Kong. He taught creative writing and literature at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, among other places and is the author of HK Hollow.
Niranjana Iyer is a writer, editor, and college admissions essay consultant based in the San Francisco Bay Area. She tweets @ninaiyer.
Grace Jackson is a British writer and translator based in New York. She lived in Taiwan for two years before gaining a master's degree in East Asian Studies at Harvard University, where she was a Frank Knox Fellow. She is on Twitter @gracejackson
Chiu-Ti Jansen is a writer, TV host and founder of <a href="China Happenings, a multimedia platform about contemporary Chinese culture. She is a columnist for the FInancial Times's Chinese edition.
Travis Jeppesen is an Assistant Professor at the Institute for Cultural and Creative Industry at Shanghai Jiaotong University. His latest books are Bad Writing (Sternberg/MIT Press, 2019) and See You Again in Pyongyang (Hachette, 2018).
Kavita A Jindal is the author of the novel Manual For A Decent Life, winner of the Brighthorse Prize. She has published three poetry books: Patina,Raincheck Renewed and Raincheck Accepted.
Stephen Joyce is a marketing consultant and copywriter who moved to Asia from Scotland in early 2010. He has lived in Hong Kong and Singapore and is now in the UK.
Nicholas Jubber is the author of Epic Continent: Adventures in the Great Stories of Europe (John Murray, 2019)
Chad Kohalyk divides his time between Canada and Japan.
Dmitry Kosyrev is known in Russia for his spy trilogy set in the world of the 8th century, starting from The Pet Hawk of the House of Abbas.
Theophilus Kwek is the author of three collections, They Speak Only Our Mother Tongue, Circle Line and, most recently, Giving Ground.
Neville Lai is an independent researcher on global affairs.
Elizabeth Lawrence is Assistant Professor of History at Augustana College.
Jacqueline Leung is a writer and translator from Hong Kong. She's an Editor-at-Large for Asymptote and also writes for ArtAsiaPacific, Voice & Verse and others publications.
A poet, actress and travel writer on the side, Zabrina Lo is Associate Features Editor at Tatler Hong Kong.
Christine Loh Kung-wai has served Hong Kong in the public, NGO and educational sectors for more than three decades, most recently as Hong Kong Undersecretary for the Environment. She is co-author of No Third Person: Rewriting the Hong Kong Story (Abbreviated Press).
Namrata Madhira is a writer in Mumbai.
Stephen Maire retired in 2020 after a long career in the garment business in Asia.
Shyamasri Maji teaches English at Durgapur Women’s College, West Bengal.
Erich Mayer is a retired company director and former organic walnut farmer. He now edits the blog humblecomment.info.
Patrick McShane is the Editor-in-Chief of the online literary journal Hwæl-Weġ.
Stephen Mercado, a retired officer of the CIA’s Open Source Enterprise (previously known as the Foreign Broadcast Information Service), is a freelance translator and writer. He is the author of The Shadow Warriors of Nakano: A History of the Imperial Japanese Army’s Elite Intelligence School.
Hannah Michell is the author of The Defections.
Tony Michell is a business consultant and visiting Professor at KDI School of Policy and Management in Korea and formerly taught Economic History in the UK.
Rosie Milne runs Asian Books Blog twitter@asianbooksblog. She lives in Singapore.
Reid Mitchell is a New Orleanian teaching in China. More specifically, he is a Scholar in Jiangsu Province’s 100 Foreign Talents Program, and a Professor of English at Yancheng Teachers University.
Juan José Morales is the co-author of Painter and Patron: The Maritime Silk Road in the Códice Casanatense (Abbreviated Books, 2020) and The Silver Way: China, Spanish America and the Birth of Globalisation, 1565–1815 (Penguin, 2017).
Maximillian Morch is a researcher and author of Plains of Discontent: A Political History of Nepal’s Tarai (1743-2019) (2023)
Astrid Møller-Olsen is a doctoral candidate at the Centre for Languages and Literature, Lund University, Sweden. She has published on literary drinking cultures, allegorical cannibalism, fictional dictionaries and Daoist commensality in Chinese fiction. Current research focuses on the spatiotemporal relation between cityscape and memory in contemporary urban fiction in Chinese.
Swati Nair is a writer, editor and reviewer based in Dublin.
Tsering Namgyal is a journalist and novelist based in Hong Kong.
Archit Nanda is a PhD scholar at Queen Mary University of London.
Saima Nasar is a Teaching Fellow at the University of Birmingham. Her research is concerned with the transnational history of race, empire, and diaspora.
Author Ivy Ngeow was born and raised in Johor Bahru, Malaysia and now lives in London
Lily Nilipour is Digital Marketing Assistant at Harvard University Press and an Associate Poetry Editor for Narrative.
Rachel Love Nuwer is a science journalist whose writing has appeared in The New York Times, National Geographic, Scientific American, BBC Future, and elsewhere. She is the author of Poached: Inside the Dark World of Wildlife Trafficking.
Leanne Ogasawara has worked as a translator from the Japanese for over twenty years. Her translation work has included academic translation, poetry, philosophy, and documentary film. Her book reviews have appeared in Kyoto Journal, the Dublin Review of Books, the New Rambler, and 3 Quarks Daily.
The Noble Silver Collection, assembled by David C Owens and his wife Kathleen over eight years, is the largest-known single collection of work from the Burmese Silver Age. He is the author of Burmese Silver Art (Marshall Cavendish).
Tim O’Connell is a China trader turned writer and historian who has lived in Hong Kong and Beijing since 1981.
Jen Paolini is a Hong Kong-born lifestyle writer and editor who grew up between Europe and East Asia. She covers travel, culture, and dining and has a background in art direction, illustration, and visual design.
Derek Parker is a freelance reviewer based in South Korea.
Suhasini Patni is a freelance writer based in Jaipur and Delhi. Her story was short-listed for the Toto Funds the Arts, Creative Writing in English Award 2021. Her work has appeared in Asymptote, Scroll, Cha, and elsewhere.
Lawrence Pettener is a poet and editor living in Subang Jaya, Malaysia.
Phuong Phan is an art and architectural historian based in Berlin.
Olivia Porter is a PhD candidate at King's College London. Her research focuses on Theravada Buddhism in Myanmar.
Gayathri Prabhu and Nikhil Govind
Gayathri Prabhu and Nikhil Govind are authors of Shadow Craft: Visual Aesthetics of Black and White Hindi Cinema
Bill Purves is a Hong Kong-based writer. He is the author of several books, including A Sea of Green: A Voyage Around the World of Ocean Shipping and China on the Lam: On Foot Across the People’s Republic.
Qiu Xiaolong is an award-winning novelist and poet.
Ian Rapley is Senior Lecturer in modern Japanese history at Cardiff University and author of Green Star Japan: Esperanto and the International Language Question, 1880–1945 (Hawaii University Press, October 2024)
Pamela Recinella is an Italian stage and opera director.
T F Rhoden, PhD, has been a resident of Southeast Asia for fifteen years and currently works in international aid and relief. His most recent book is Karen Language Phrasebook: Basics of Sgaw Dialect (White Lotus Press, 2015).
John A Riley is a writer and university lecturer based in Daejeon, South Korea.
Elvira Roca Barea is an award-winning Spanish academic and writer.
John Ross is publisher at Camphor Press.
Bruce Rusk is associate professor in the Department of Asian Studies at the University of British Columbia (UBC) in Vancouver. He is co-translator with Christopher Rea are co-translators of The Book of Swindles by Yingyu Zhang (Columbia University Press, 2017).
Evan Ryser is a resident of Washington, DC, and holds a master's degree from Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.
Marli Cristina Scomazzon and Jeff Franco