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L. Acadia is an assistant professor at National Taiwan University, Taiwan Literature Base 2024–2025 Writer-in-Residence, and best-of-the-net-nominated member of the Taipei Poetry Collective with poetry in JMWW, New Orleans Review, Strange Horizons, trampset, and elsewhere. Connect on Twitter and Instagram: @acadialogue

Prarthana Aggarwal (she/her) is a writer from various cities in India, including New Delhi where she was born and Pune where she grew up in two boarding schools. Her work explores the itch of religion, consumption and love, the heirloom pain of accents and superstitions using fruit imagery, Hindi incantations, idioms, and dream journal excerpts. Her debut chapbook let sleeping dogs lie was published by Sunset Press in 2025. She shares personal essays, poetry, and everything in between on her Substack page.

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Danny Bellinger is a poet, writer, and Assistant Professor at Georgia Highlands College in Atlanta, GA. He was a Summer Poetry Fellow at the Community of Writers in both 2021 and 2024, where he also received the C.D. Wright Memorial Scholarship. His most recent work has appeared in Community of Writers Poetry Review, Black Sunflowers Poetry, Obsidian, Callaloo, and others. His chapbook, More Beautiful Than the Dead, was recently published by Black Sunflower Poetry Press out of London.

Lucienne Bestall is a writer and curatorial researcher based in Cape Town, South Africa. She has contributed to several art surveys from Phaidon and her essay All The Dead is included in the anthology Our Ghosts Were Once People (Jonathan Ball, 2022). Another essay, A History of Fire, was published by Raritan (Rutgers University, 2021) and is listed among the notable essays and literary non-fiction in The Best American Essays anthology (HarperCollins Publishers, 2022). Her debut collection of essays, Except for Breath: Reflections on Image and Memory, is forthcoming from Karavan Press (2024).

Brooke Bianchi-Pennington (she/her) is a writer and educator from the Tennessee foothills currently working in international education in Taipei, Taiwan. Her writing explores the ways in which language and the material world shape identity and connection. Brooke has published poetry in the Journal of Language and Literacy Education, Thorn & Bloom, Moss Puppy, and Arkana, and was recently Pushcart nominated for a publication in Sundial Magazine. You can find her literary and academic work at brookebianchipennington.com.

Alex O. Bleecker is a high school English teacher living & working in Hsinchu, Taiwan. A member of the Seattle-based RE DRUM poetry collective and co-founder of the Breadline performance series, his work has appeared in various print and online journals, including his poetry blog Hypothetical Miracles. His first full-length collection of poems entitled Cleave (Cyberwit) was published in 2022. His new collection, When Light Exits a Medium: Responding to Neruda (Carbonation Press), is due out later this year.

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Alexandre U. Cabilte is a writer from Cebu, Philippines. When she has free time, she loves dabbling in poetry and photography. Her work has not been previously published.

Germain Canon (b.1989, Belgium) is an artist based in Taipei. Originally trained as an architect in Brussels, he has since developed a creative career beyond architecture, using writing, painting, and installations as medium. He has been a member of the Taipei Poetry Collective since 2018. He was shortlisted for the 2021 Neilma Short Story Prize (Australia), and in 2022 was runner up for The Phare Winter Prize for Poetry (UK). His last solo exhibitions were in Taipei (Venue 溼地 – 2021) and Kaoshiung (Pier 2 駁二漾藝廊 – 2023).

Piera Chen is a writer and translator from Hong Kong. She has (co-)authored some 20 travel guides for Lonely Planet, and published poems in Sky Island Journal, Anthropocene, Cha: An Asian Literary Journal, Voice & Verse, Canto Cutie, and elsewhere. Piera is also one of two co-translators of the Thames & Hudson-published Chinese Art Since 1970: The M+ Sigg Collection, a catalogue to a world-class collection of contemporary Chinese art. She believes that if writing is the most disembodied of the arts, travel writing and poetry are the genres that make it less so. This is why she loves both. www.pierachen.com @pierachen

Aurora Chang 張瓊方 is an activist and organiser from Taoyuan, Taiwan. She is a member of New Bloom and has been active in the Tibetan, Ukrainian, and Palestinian solidarity movements in Taipei. Currently she’s pursuing a Master’s in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies at the University of Glasgow. She is interested in neography and is working on the fourth iteration of her constructed writing system that follows the transliteration logic of Bopomofo. She is also occasionally an artist and bartender.

Keziah Cho, born and raised in Hong Kong, is currently completing a master’s degree in English literature at the University of Cambridge. Her poems can be found on Voice & Verse, Emerge Literary Journal, Pi Magazine, The Foundationalist, and The Crank. When she’s not writing, she’s probably eating bread, baking bread, or thinking about where to get the best bread.

Taiwanese by nature, New Yorker by nurture, C.K. Hugo Chung is a bi-cultural poet whose previous publications include Red Envelope (Spotlight Entertainment, 2022), Self-Writeous (TWG 2018), Taiwan First Hand: An Expatology (2017), and several chapbooks (Writeous, 2008-12). In addition to reading and writing poetry, Chung enjoys red wine and Real Housewives franchises. A proud member of Taipei Poetry Collective since its inception.

Valerie Coulton is the author of still life with elegy, small bed & field guide (above/ground press), open book, The Cellar Dreamer, and passing world pictures (Apogee Press). She holds an MFA from San Francisco State University. She curates palabrosa, an online chapbook and interview series, and she lives in Barcelona with the poet Edward Smallfield.

Cory Crouser is a writer and photographer based in Virginia’s Blue Ridge. He holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Hollins University. His work frequently explores questions of place. Cory shares a small cabin on a modest number of forested acres with his partner, Emily, and their two cats, Kisa and Toaster.

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Having grown up in California, Washington, and Tennessee, Lyle Daniel now collects truths and errors in New York City. He also teaches high school English, and some of his students know him by the name of the Scooby Doo character, Shaggy.

Ruby Davis is an undergraduate student in creative writing and anthropology. She is usually with her cat, Babushka. You can find her other writing in Scribbled Online, Ninth Heaven, Grain of Salt, and others, or you can find her on Substack @evenmolluskshaveweddings.

Karen Dellinger is a productive procrastinator currently wrangling a PhD degree in English Studies at Durham University, UK. Every night (regardless of which shape the moon gives or takes) the Taiwanese in her rears its head and yearns for the kaleidoscopic flânerie afforded to those fortunate enough to inhabit Taipei. In her free time she enjoys soliciting attention from cats, bombarding Instagram followers with rambling stream of consciousness stories, and springing horror film recommendations on unsuspecting friends. Her poetry has previously found a home (after forceful eviction from the drafts folder) in Runestone Literary Journal.

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Kurtis Ebeling is a writer and educator living in Spokane, Washington. He’s an MA in English and MFA in Creative writing graduate from EWU, a founding coeditor for Croak—a themed lit mag that publishes frog inspired works—and a previous poetry editor for Willow Springs. His poetry has been published with a number of journals, including Art of Nothing Press, Pictura Journal, The Dewdrop, and Wild Roof Journal. He also has work forthcoming at Crab Creek Review.

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Alexandra Gilliam (she/her) is the author of Lightsheen (sub-sea sheen), Finishing Line Press, 2020 and the chapbook, Femmesturary, dancing girl press, 2016. Find her work in LIT Magazine, Second Stutter, In Parenthesis, Taipei Poetry Collective (TPC Review), and others. Alexandra is a bi-poet who lives in San Antonio, TX and works in video production. Find some of her photography on Instagram @poetsforsound

Ewen Glass (he/him) is a screenwriter and poet from Northern Ireland who lives with two dogs, a tortoise and a body of self-doubt; his poetry has appeared in the likes of Okay Donkey, Abridged, HAD, Poetry Scotland and One Art Poetry. Bluesky/X/IG: @ewenglass

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Troels Steenholdt Heiredal, 何卓思 (b. 1984) is an Autistic / neuroqueer artist and architect examining the differences between explaining and exploring disability. He grew up in Toftlund, Denmark, and currently lives and works in Taipei, Taiwan. In 2019, Troels learned he is Autistic. Since coming-aut, he has been developing new languages that better represent his Autistic perception, expressed through poetry, prose, lens works, drawings, and constructions. His writing has appeared in Star 82 Review, Ranger Magazine, On:Site review, and is forthcoming in arq: Architectural Research Quarterly, and PLAT 13 . www.troelsheiredal.com | IG: t.heiredal

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Annie Johnson is a British poet and prose writer based in Glasgow, Scotland.

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Victoria Kao is a recent high school graduate and plans to further her studies in Australia. Outside of her studies, when she tries to have a life, she likes to read, write poetry, go on a walk with her film camera, and spend time with her family.

Ellie Kerry is an until-recently-Taipei-based poet and essayist. Her poetry is concerned with banality and its others. Her essays are concerned with music theories and histories.

Cindy Ko calls both Portland, OR and Taipei home. She’s currently studying to be a professional licensed counselor and is interested in exploring linguistics, generational trauma, and metaphors.

Jeanilyn Kwan is a Nigeria-born writer of Singaporean and Filipino heritage. Her work tends to meditate on the malleability of language, memory, and identity, drawing from a life across distinct urban landscapes: Lagos, Manila, Beijing, Dallas, and Singapore. Her recent and forthcoming writing can be found in Voice & Verse Poetry Magazine, 异典 Oddilogues, Pandan Weekly, and Atelier Arcadia’s What We Burn For anthology. She is currently pursuing postgraduate studies in psychology after over a decade of working as a copy editor.

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Katie Liao was born and raised in Hsinchu, Taiwan. She earned her BA in Computer Science from New York University, where she first began writing poems. Her work has appeared in West 10th, Spires, The Weasel, and elsewhere. She is pursuing an LLM at National Taiwan University.

Zoe Morana Liao is a professional witch and occasional exorcist who guides beginner witches into unlocking and training their magic. She is passionate about demystifying the esoteric and teaches classes on Taiwanese folk magic and all topics covered in her debut book & podcast, Magic Theory 101. She has previously been published in Arcana Poetry Press and Silk & Ink Magazine, with pieces drawing heavily on elements of Taiwanese folklore.

Chloe Lin is a Taiwanese-American student based in Pennsylvania. She is recognized by the Alliance for Young Artists & Writers, Young Writers Journal, and JUST POETRY!!! The National Poetry Quarterly and is also a Kenyon Young Writers Alum. Her work can be found or is forthcoming in Under the Madness Magazine, The Odyssey Youth Literary Magazine, Bridge Ink, Gaia Lit, Eunoia Review, Vellichor Literary, Youth of Letters, Paper Lanterns, and Hikari Zine. She is also the founder of Bubble Tea Literary.

Xuan Liu (b.1997, China) is a performance artist and poet based in Bangkok, Thailand. She employs mindful improvisation as the main practice in approaching her subjects, considering both performance art and writing to be inquiries into physical objects and meandering approaches to the ultimate essence of things. Through improvisation, she sees relations and kinship being formed and revealed.

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Ariadna (Arina) Maksin is a poet and neurobiology researcher. She is the founding editor of Stemlit, a literary journal at the intersection of creative writing and science. An alumna of the Iowa Young Writers Studio and three-time Scholastic Art and Writing Awards Gold Key awardee, her work is published or forthcoming in Scapegoat Review, Garden Wall Magazine, and Eunoia Review. She received a 2026 Laidlaw Scholarship for her research on opioid addiction. She splits her life between the West and East Coast, and her time dissecting either diction or brains.

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Yvon Pan is a queer Pilipino Taiwanese teacher and a graduate of NTU Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures. They are greatly invested in topics such as queerness, migration/diaspora, Indigeneity, (post)colonialism, animals/nature, language, arts, education (TESOL), and other human rights issues. Their poems reflect these interests and aim to feel like a gut punch.

Raised in Northern Virginia, Amanda Meimei Peren, made her way up the coast and graduated from Long Island University Brooklyn, securing a dual bachelor’s degree in both Urban Adolescent Education and English Literature, with a focus in BIPOC Young Adult Fiction. She continued her studies at Virginia Tech, where she received a MA in English Education, before finally embarking on her teaching career. Since 2023, Amanda has been living in Taiwan as a Bilingual Home Economics teacher at the Middle School level. In her free time, she continues to create various works of Creative Non-Fiction and Poetry. She has been a member of the Taipei Poetry Collective since early 2025. As an emerging writer, her works can be found in Off Season Magazine and now presently, the second issue of TPC Review.

Yong-Chen Perng is a student at National Taiwan University, where they are studying Foreign Languages and Literatures. They like poetry almost as much as they like cats. You can chat to them about either on Instagram (@whatthefrillyhell) or Facebook (@yongchen.perng).

Raised in Napa, California, Jonathan Pyner graduated from University of California, Berkeley, where he was a student-teacher poet in June Jordan’s Poetry for the People. He earned his MFA in creative writing with a focus in poetry from the Jackson Center for Creative Writing at Hollins University. He has been a member of the Taipei Poetry Collective since its earliest workshops in 2017. His work can be found in About Place Journal, Fourth River Journal, Pacific International Poetry Festival 2022 Anthology, and Taipei Poetry Collective’s Versify. Since 2015, he has lived in Taipei, where he studies, teaches, translates, and writes.

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Megan Ross is the author of Milk Fever (uHlanga Press, 2018) and several short stories and essays. She runs Stoep Collective, a spirited studio crafting connections between writers, artists, and the world. A recipient of the Brittle Paper Award for Fiction (2017) and an Alumni Award from the Iceland Writers Retreat (2016), Megan has been a finalist for the Gerald Kraak, Miles Morland, Short Story Day Africa, and Short Sharp Awards. Megan lives in London with her family and is working on her memoir.

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Claudio Sansone is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English Literature at NCU. His work centers on ancient poetry and its receptions in antiquity and in the present. He is currently trying to learn Classical Chinese and is haphazardly chronicling his few successes and many spectacular failures through a series of creative translations of anonymous poems from the Han period. He has been chief editor of two Irish poetry magazines (Icarus and The Attic) and the founding editor of the Trinity Journal of Literary Translation. He also served on the staff of the Chicago Review. His most recent published translation, a creative rendering of a Tocharian B love poem, appeared in Ancient Exchanges.

Kevin Song is a senior at the University of Minnesota – Twin Cities. He has one published work in the Blue Marble Review. He loves poetry for its ability to make strangers’ feelings our own. In his free time, he enjoys being outdoors, lifting weights, and learning TouchDesigner.

Soumitra Somendra (he/him) is the author of the online zine The Phantom of Fast Fashion: A Flâneur’s Sketches of a City Clothed in Mass Consumerism. His poems have appeared in Gulmohur Quarterly, Prosetrics, and the zine Between What Should and Should Not Be. He is a poet from Jaipur, India.

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Philip Tetley-Jones is a writer who has lived and worked in New Zealand, Britain, and Mexico. His work has appeared in the Mexican magazine Puente MID.

k tiao is an artist and shape-shifter freshly graduated from UCSD’s MFA. they are working on a manuscript about transpacific yearning. you can find their work in Washington Square Review, Soap Ear, Impossible Archetype, Molecule, bitter melon poetry, AAWW Transpacific Literary Project, and CHIME zine.

Hannah Tool is an educator, parent, and poet living in Santa Cruz, CA with her husband, a small garden, and a ferocious five-year-old. She seeks to bring joy, care and a critical lens into her high school classroom and a love of writing to her campus community, where she advises the Creative Writing Club. She is a member of the Hive Poetry Collective and her poems have been published in multiple print and online literary journals. Her debut poetry chapbook, Allegory of a Caved in Woman (Finishing Line Press) is forthcoming in 2027.

Hannah Treasure is a Lecturer in the Department of English at Clemson University. She received her MFA in Poetry from Brooklyn College. Her chapbook, Written in the Stars, was selected as the Editor’s Choice for the 2025 Tomaž Šalamun Prize, and her work appears in The Greensboro Review, The Brooklyn Rail, Sugar House Review, Annulet, Afternoon Visitor, No Dear, Volume Poetry, and elsewhere.

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Laura Wang is a writer and public school teacher based in New York and, when the stars align, Taipei.

Noel Wang is a writer and recent college graduate. Raised in Minnesota, Noel is a Chinese adoptee with Midwestern and Taiwanese-American heritage. She currently studies Mandarin Chinese and teaches math, physics, and English in Taipei.

Allison Wei is a Chinese-American poet from Michigan, now based in NYC. She writes about lichen, lineage, food, and divinity. A former baker, she’s made 1000+ milk bread buns.

Leonore Wilson is a retired college English and creative writing from Northern California. Her two poetry books are Western Solstice (Hireath Press) and Tremendum, Augustum (Kelsey Press). She is on the MFA Board at St Mary’s College of California. Her work has been in such magazines as The Iowa Review, Third Coast, Prairie Schooner, Quarterly West, Upstreet, Madison Review, Laurel Review, Pif, etc. Her historic 100 year old cattle ranch in the eastern hills of the Napa Valley was recently destroyed in the LNU fire of Napa Valley.

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Born in China, Youkun Zhou 周幼昆 is a linguist, educator, and translator based in the U.S.