Erlinda Enriquez Panlilio grew up surrounded by food, her parents being in the foodservice business—the D & E, then the Sulo Restaurant in the Makati Commercial (now Ayala) Center, later the Sulo Hotel, and other hotels and a resort (Puerto Azul),  including an in-flight kitchen

Menchu Aquino Sarmiento trained as a visual artist and runs a non-profit charity in Manila.  Her essays and fiction have won Philippine awards.  Her short stories are collected in Daisy Nueve [Anvil Publishing, Manila, 2003). Filipino readers have accused her of being cruel to her

Zafar Anjum was born in India. He studied at Aligarh Muslim University, Jawaharlal Nehru University, and the Indian Institute of Mass Communications, Delhi. Of Seminal Fluids is his first novel. He is the translator of an anthology of poems, My Silence Speaks. He is the author of

Sta. Maria is an essayist born in 1950.  Some of her solo-authored books have garnered awards from Book Development Association of the Philippines, Ceres Alabado Award for Outstanding Literature for Children, Manila Critics Circle, Public Relations Society of the Philippines, and

ELANGOVAN, bilingual poet, playwright-director, screenwriter, literary
editor, transcreator, and pioneer of modern Tamil poetry and Tamil
experimental theatre in Singapore, obtained a BA (Western Australian Academy
of Performing Arts) and a MA (Middlesex University, UK) in