Editors-At-Large

Nazry Bahrawi is an assistant professor of Southeast Asian literature and culture at University of Washington in Seattle. He specialises in the decolonial work of articulating Malay-Indonesian vernacular knowledge in cultural studies expressed through literature, film, and art.

Teresa Cherukara is a writer based in Dubai. She has been published by London Library Magazine, Taleem, and the Oxford University Press. Teresa was an India Scholar at King’s College London, where she graduated with a MA in Comparative Literature.

Gopika Jadeja is a bilingual poet and translator, writing in English and Gujarati. Her literary writing and translations have been published widely. She is committed to translating writing from marginalised communities. Gopika is working on a project of English translations of poetry from Gujarat.

Yaser Hassan Ali is from the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. He works as a lecturer at the College of Languages at the University of Duhok and as a visiting lecturer at Nawroz University.

Şermin Sezer-Toraman is an assistant professor in the department of Foreign Language Education at Sinop University, Türkiye. She holds an M.A. and a Ph.D. in English Literature from Middle East Technical University, Türkiye. Her main research interests include postcolonial literatures, diaspora literature, and gender studies.

William Tham Wai Liang, based in Petaling Jaya, Malaysia, was formerly Senior Editor at Vancouver’s Ricepaper magazine. His newest novel, The Last Days , is set in 1981 and covers the continuing legacy of the Malayan Emergency.