Archives: Authors

Ploy Kingchatchaval graduated with a BA in English Literature from the University of Cambridge in 2016 and an MA in Issues in Modern Culture from University College London in 2017. She translated the English screenplay for Puangsoi Aksornsawang’s second feature film I open a curtain to see a dead bird and Jirassaya Wongsutin’s debut feature film Flat Girls, both in development. She currently lives in Bangkok, Thailand with her dog Tofu.

Saurabh Mukherjea, a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and an alumnus of the London School of Economics, is the author of four best-selling books on subjects including investing, business strategy and self-improvement. Prior to Marcellus, he was the CEO of Ambit Capital and before that, the co-founder of Clear Capital (UK). Saurabh manages Marcellus Investment Managers.

ANA LUENEBURGER has had a global career with organizations such as INSEAD, Danone and the Boston Consulting Group. Following a decade and a half of coaching and advisory work, Ana is a Master Certified Coach (MCC) with the International Coaching Federation, has a PhD in business from the University of St Gallen, Switzerland, was a postdoctoral research fellow in change management at INSEAD, France, and a founding fellow of the Institute of Coaching at Harvard Medical School, USA. Ana is also a fully licensed and accredited integrative psychotherapist in the UK.

Anita Othman is a born and bred Malay Singaporean who grew up with a love of reading at a young age. Second-hand book stores became her second home for many years. She graduated from the National University of Singapore with a degree in Literature and English Language. She was a civil servant for more than a decade until her husband was posted to Germany. As a result, she stopped working and joined him together with their daughter. With time on her hands, she focused on her love of creative writing. After Germany, the family moved to Jakarta where she became a regular columnist for the Jakarta Globe and Jakarta Post. On her return to Singapore, she started on her debut novel while pursuing a Diploma in Sports
Science. Her novel Still Waters was published in 2021.

Uthis Haemamool was born in 1975 in Kaeng Khoi district, Saraburi province in central Thailand. Among his seven published novels and four short stories collection, he became widely known for the Kaeng Khoi Trilogy containing the novels The Brotherhood of Kaeng Khoi, which won him the Seven Book Awards and the S.E.A. Write Award in 2009; The Elegy, and The Fabulist. In 2017, his novel Silhouette of Desire was translated and published in Japanese, followed by an art exhibition of the same name that showcases his drawings and paintings. The novel was then adapted for the stage under the direction of Toshiki Okada, which premiered in Bangkok and staged at Centre Pompidou Paris in 2018 and Tokyo in 2019.

Palin Ansusinha graduated with a BA in English Language and Literature from King’s College London in 2017. She translated several Thai short stories into English, including ‘The World Shattered Yesterday’, ‘Tender Mercies’, and ‘The Weretiger Tale’ by Phu Kradat. In 2020, she co-founded soi literary, a literary agency to promote contemporary Thai literature to an international audience. She currently lives in Bangkok, Thailand with her cat Jamu.

Ploy Kingchatchaval graduated with a BA in English Literature from the University of Cambridge in 2016 and an MA in Issues in Modern Culture from University College London in 2017. She translated the English screenplay for Puangsoi Aksornsawang’s second feature film I open a curtain to see a dead bird and Jirassaya Wongsutin’s debut feature film Flat Girls, both in development. She currently lives in Bangkok, Thailand with her dog Tofu.

Aishwariyaa Ramakanthan’s writing is a fusion of flavours. It is reflective of the multi-cultural ethos of her birthplace, Singapore; of the languid grace of Malaysia where she was raised; of the eclectic lifestyles of the United States where she now lives; and of the rich cultural heritage of India, where she engages in her other passion, Indian Classical music. Ramakanthan is a graduate of the National University of Singapore and the University of San Diego, California. She travels to Singapore frequently to reconnect with family and friends and to energize her bond with the city. Typically a night owl, Aishwariyaa writes best when the rest of the world is asleep. Her first novel, Beyond the Shores of Home, is available on Amazon.

Leila S. Chudori is an Indonesian author and female journalist. She worked at TEMPO news magazine from 1989 to 2017. Leila is the author of several anthologies of short stories, two novels, TV and film scripts. Her novel Pulang (Home), also translated into English by John H. McGlynn, won the Khatulistiwa Literary Award in 2013 and was included as one of the 75 Notable Translations of 2015 by World Literature Today. Pulang was also translated into French, German, Dutch and Italian.

Daryl Lim was born in Kuala Lumpur in 1984. He migrated to Sydney as a young child and grew up surreptitiously imbibing stories of his parents’ homeland. His writing has appeared in Peril Magazine, been short-listed for a Varuna House Fellowship and is a recipient of a Writing NSW Mentorship. He loves all kinds of fiction but novels like The Quiet American, On the Beach, The Sheltering Sky, or anything by Kazuo Ishiguro, Cormac McCarthy and Annie Proulx (among others) seem to be the ones that linger in his psyche. The Snow in Kuala Lumpur is his first novel.
He currently lives in Sydney with his wife and son (in an apartment run by two sleepy cats).

Dawn is a feminist academic researcher and writer who strives to bring the stories of erased or forgotten women and their role in history to centre stage. She called Singapore home for twelve years during which time she made lasting friendships, was a volunteer guide for the city’s museums, began her fiction-writing career and found publication. She has a PhD in Creative Writing from Edith Cowan University in Western Australia and now lives in Perth. She misses many things about the vibrancy of multicultural Singapore, especially the food.
She has published five novels, including The Straits Quartet, four novels set in nineteenth century colonial Singapore (2007-2013); and Finding Maria, a mystery set during Singapore’s post-war race riots (2017) which was shortlisted for the Penang Monthly Literary Prize (2018). Her short stories have featured in anthologies in Southeast Asia and Australia. In 2013 she won the Melbourne Athenaeum Library Short Story Prize. She also writes for stage and screen and won the NexGen Short Film Festival Prize in Perth for her screenplay The Wallpaper.
Amongst other things, she is currently writing a crime/detective series set during the Japanese Occupation of Singapore. She is passionate about history and heritage conservation and volunteers with the National Trust of WA.