NutMag 8: Harmony

Alif Zamri merupakan peminat dan penulis haiku. Kumpulan haiku pertamanya berjudul Langit Biru diterbit pada 2022. Melalui haiku, penulis gemar meneroka dan menulis tentang alam, manusia serta budaya.

Carolyn Khor is a pluviophile who loves contemplating life's philosophical dimensions and aligning herself with the universe. In addition to her writing, she has been in the teaching profession for three decades. Her varied career includes roles as a ministerial press secretary and a UN Volunteer. Currently, Carolyn serves as a council member for the Centre for Policy Initiatives (CPI) and is actively engaged in investigative journalism as well. She contributes to several online and print publications and is dedicated to activism, focusing on human rights, democracy and governance, gender equality, environmental issues, and the arts. She can be reached at [email protected].

Celine Wu is a reader first and foremost and a writer only when forced to admit to having published short stories. With editing as a job and the mismanagement of her life as a hobby, you'd think she spends her free time doing things other than reading and writing—but she doesn't.

Eileyn Chua is a lawyer, burn survivor, writer and motivational speaker. Having miraculously survived a gas explosion in 2016, her perception of life has changed. She plans to live this life to her fullest potential. Currently, she is writing her memoir about her life as a burn survivor in Malaysia.

Jenny Hor may be working 9 to 6 as a copywriter in Malaysia, but she still sticks to her long-time dream as a fiction writer. Her works appear in Asian Anthology: New Writing Vol 1 and Penang-based literary zine Nutmag Vol. 6 and 7. Aside from writing, she likes travelling and exploring interesting happenings on the island.​

Jinming Khor should be graduating from his university with a software engineering degree, if his pending exam results permit him to. He was born in Penang, Malaysia, which can be seen in his tendency to switch to Chinese mid-sentence after forgetting English words. His writing was born from cringey fanfiction.net shippings which explains his obsession with romance fics.

​JY Tan is a writer whose short stories have appeared in multiple NutMag volumes and hopes to get a novel published someday. She occasionally writes poetry when the poetry muse breaks into her house, and she was co-editor for the Best of Malaysian Short Fiction in English 2010–2020 reprint anthology (but talks about its cool tiger cover more than the 19 cooler stories within). When she isn’t selling her soul to pay for her cat son’s food (a.k.a. working a day job), she can be found on Twitter at @JYTan6 or her website at jytan.org.

Lauren Tan is a multi-passionate and untethered force of light. A mother of 2 boys (and an ardent fan of John Mayer’s artistry), she seamlessly wears different hats between lawyering in her day job, helping children with learning challenges learn how to read in her side passion project, and dabbling in the performing arts whenever time permits. She believes in the inherent goodness of people and is exploring the written word as another channel of creative self-expression.

Munira Noor Mazlan is currently reevaluating her relationship to literature and writing and doing it amongst new faces in her native Penang. She also is very enthusiastic about exploring about the unique narrative structure that can only be showcased in RPG games. She is currently in deep research and when she needs a break she goes to the beach. 

Wilson Khor W.H. is known for many things—zine poet and publisher; teacher, otaku, and an obvious oddball.

His hobbies include eating, being annoying, and fooling around in writers’ meetings. He has a bad habit of cracking the wrong jokes at the wrong time, as well as a notoriety for abusing long sentences, em dashes, and semi colons.

Anna Tan writes fantasy stories and fairy tales, and has short stories included in various anthologies. She helps people publish books at Teaspoon Publishing, which includes yelling at HTML for epub reasons. 

Wan Phing Lim was born to Malaysian parents in 1986 in Butterworth, Penang. Her short stories have appeared in literary magazines and anthologies in UK, USA, Canada, Japan, Singapore and Malaysia. She lives in Penang and Two Figures in a Car is her first short story collection.

Yee Heng Yeh is a writer and Mandarin-to-English translator. His poetry has been featured in The KITA! Podcast, adda, Malaysian Millennial Voices, and Strange Horizons, while his translations of poetry have been published in Mantis and Nashville Review. His story “Cockroach”, first published in Imprints: Chevening Writers Series 2021, also appeared in Guernica. You can find him on Twitter at @HengYeh42.