The Second Link: An Anthology of Malaysian & Singaporean Writing

Daryl Lim Wei Jie is a poet, translator and literary critic from Singapore. His poetry collection, Anything but Human, was shortlisted for the 2022 Singapore Literature Prize. He won the Golden Point Award for English Poetry in 2015. Daryl co-edited Food Republic: A Singapore Literary Banquet, an anthology of literary food writing from Singapore, which received a Special Award at the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards 2023.

Hamid Roslan is the author of parsetreeforestfire, a finalist for the Singapore Literature Prize 2020. His prose and poetry have been published in Violent Phenomena: 21 Essays on Translation, New Singapore Poetries, and numerous literary journals.

Melizarani T. Selva is a Malaysian writer and spoken word poet. Her first book, Taboo, is a poetic interrogation of the Malaysian Indian identity. She co-published an anthology of 100 poems by 61 poets from Malaysia titled When I Say Spoken, You Say Word! Her play Kudumbam was staged as part of the 24-Hour Playwriting Competition 2021 winners’ showcase.

William Tham is a researcher and academic editor with a background in English from Universiti Malaya. He has been published in NANG, PR&TA, The Best of World SF: Volume 2, and the Southeast Asian Review of English.