Aaron Maniam's debut poetry collection Morning at Memory's Border was shortlisted for the 2007 Singapore Literature Prize. Maniam’s "Second Persons" was published in 2018. He has mentored younger writers under the Creative Arts Programme since 2004 and the National Arts Council's Mentor Access Project, and has twice judged manuscripts for SingLit Station's Poetry Bootcamp. He is a civil servant by profession.

As an artist and musician, bani haykal considers music as material and his projects revolve around human-machine intimacies through various forms of interfacing and interaction.

ila is an artist whose research centres on peripheral narratives surrounding identity, space, and histories that lie hidden, particularly looking at kinships with land and water bodies.

Jason Wee is an artist and a writer working between contemporary art, architecture, poetry and photography. Wee is the co-editor of SOFTBLOW poetry journal. His recent art projects include the Asia Society Triennial, the 2019 Singapore Biennale, and 'Curtains', by Para Site Hong Kong and Rockbund Art Museum. He has published three books of poetry, most recently In Short Future Now and An Epic of Durable Departures. The latter was shortlisted for the Singapore Literature Prize for Poetry in 2020.

Stephanie is a Singaporean writer, performer, and producer. In 2020, she co-created a short film based on poems from the collection called An Intermediate Guide to Roadkill. She has won national poetry slams in Singapore and the UK and has been invited to perform her work in thirteen countries. Chan founded Spoke & Bird poetry night and co-founded a comedy night called Siao Char Bors Comedy. She is inspired by mud and Southeast Asian wildlife.