NutMag Volume 4: Transitions

Anna Tan grew up in Malaysia, the country that is not Singapore. In 2015, she traded in a life of annoying other bean counters for one of annoying the online world with questions about life and death and everything in between. The answer is sometimes 42. Sometimes they try to eat you.

When she’s not writing or dreaming, Aathhini Adithan is always curled up at home binge-watching her favourite TV series or K-pop music videos. She also loves sunrises, sunsets, and midnight drives on empty roads.

Newly unemployed or just graduated university (depending on how you want to look at it), Celine Wu now has too much free time on her hands. She is currently wondering what to do with her life and which of her hobbies she would like to pick back up. Celine should stop being lazy and yet probably won't. Don't be like Celine.

Diyaa Mani is based in Penang Island. Her works are usually found under her pseudonyms, Serendipity and NightShade. She writes about fantasy, feminism, human rights, the environment, and poetry. She is currently dreaming about completing her novel while running the rat race to sustain a living.

Farouk Gulsara is a daytime healer and a writer by night. After developing the left side of his brain almost half his lifetime, this Johnny-come-lately decided to stimulate the non-dominant part of his remaining half. An author of two non-fiction books, ‘Inside the Twisted Mind of Rifle Range Boy’ and ‘Real Lessons from Reel Life’, he now ventures into the genre of fiction. He writes regularly on his blog, ‘Rifle Range Boy’.

Jackie Ashkin is an author and anthropologist-in-progress. Half-Malaysian and half-American, her writing incorporates two decades of life lived between and across cultures.

Originally from Scotland, Mark Walker now spends most of his time in Malaysia and East Africa.

A travel consultant by profession, he has a voracious curiosity about all aspects of life in all the places he has visited. This deep engagement is reflected in his output as a teller of stories, a blogger, a poet, writer, and photographer. He tells stories through all of the media he uses, sometimes hitting hard and to the point, to give voice to issues he is passionate about.

Mathijs Nanne is a chef who has been working in Penang for a number of years now. Writing is a hobby that allows him to express thoughts and share views on his daily goings-on. He currently does some limited work for blogs, including www.penang-insider.com but aims to progress to more.

JY Tan was born in 2000 and raised in Penang, where she learned to love the food but hate the traffic. She briefly moved to Semenyih, Selangor for her Foundation studies at Nottingham Malaysia, where she learned to tolerate the traffic but reject the food.

Currently, she is spending her semester break in Penang but plans to pursue a degree in Creative Writing after returning to Nottingham. Char kuey teow and nasi kandar may or may not be on the packing list.

Wan Phing Lim was born to Malaysian parents in 1986 in Butterworth, Penang. Her short stories have appeared in Catapult (USA), Ricepaper Magazine (Canada), Kyoto Journal (Japan) and anthologies by Monsoon Books (UK), Ethos Books (Singapore), Fixi Novo (Malaysia), and Gerakbudaya (Malaysia). Her story 'Snake Bridge Temple' was selected for Kitaab's Best Asian Short Stories 2017 and Buku Fixi's New Malaysian Writing 2017.

Author of Tan Sri Loh Boon Siew: The Life and Times of a Fire Dragon, Car, Castello & Quill, as well as Billy and The Cloud Fife, Winston Lim has been an author and ghostwriter of both fiction as well as non-fiction for the last twenty years.

Winnie AKA ERYN is a visual artist who plays primarily with surreal and dreamlike imagery in her work. She enjoys reading fiction and is especially fond of horror stories that chill the soul. Winnie is our resident artist who designed the covers for NutMag Volume 2 to 4, as well as the banners on this website.