The last  Board Meeting of the Asia-Pacific Writing Partnership (the forerunner of AP Writers) was held in December 2011 in Perth. The caption for this picture of those present at themeeting, together with the meeting’s mintues, can be read by clicking on the picture. 

Chair 2010/2012 - Isagani Cruz

Vice Chair – Xu Xi

GM – Jane Camens

Click names below to see longer bios of the outgoing Board. The new AP Writers’ Board will be elected on 6 November 2012.

	Rukmini Bhaya Nair is professor of Linguistics and English at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.
	Brian Castro is Chair of Creative Writing at the University of Adelaide. He is a multi-award winning author with more than nine novels and a volume of essays.
	Jane Camens founded the forerunner of AP Writers, the Asia-Pacific Writing Partnership. She is a writer/journalist and now sole director of Literary Events Asia Pacific Plus.
	Catherine Cole is Deputy Dean and Professor of Creative Writing in the Faculty of Creative Arts,  University of Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia.
	Jon Cook is the Director of the Centre for Creative and Performing Arts and Emeritus Professor at the University of East Anglia in the UK, Chair of the Art Council East of England and a member of the Board of the British Arts Council.
	Isagani Cruz is the Former Philippine Undersecretary of Education, Professor Emeritus at De La Salle University, currently Director of the Teachers Academy of Far Eastern University, and a Visiting Lecturer at the Ateneo de Manila University and the University of Santo Tomas.
	Jose Dalisay – Director of the Institute of Creative Writing, University of the Philippines.
	Dai Fan – Chair of the Department of English, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China.
	Robin Hemley is a writer and Director of Creative Nonfiction at the University of Iowa. He also teaches at Vermont College of Fine Art and is partner in Authors at Large.
	Ray Hsu is a postdoctoral teaching fellow with the creative writing program at the University of British Columbia.
	Ha-yun Jung is a professor in the Graduate School of Translation & Interpretation, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Korea.
	Satendra Nandan is Foundation Professor and Dean, School of Humanities and Arts, University of Fiji. He is also Foundation Director, Gandhi-Tappoo Centre for Writing, Ethics and Peace Studies.
	R Ramachandran is the Executive Director of the National Book Development Council of Singapore.
	Iwan Sulistiawan (pen name: Iwan “Bung Kelinci”) – Lecturer/writer in the English Dept. Sekolah Tinggi Bahasa Asing LIA Jakarta, a Jakarta-based college of foreign languages, Indonesia.
	Surapeepan Chatraporn is Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Associate Professor of English, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand. She is a former Fulbright scholar and Vice President of PEN International, Thailand Centre.
	Nury Vittachi co-founded with Jane Camens the Hong Kong International Literary Festival and initiated the Man Asia Literary Prize. He teaches at Hong Kong’s Polytechnic University.
	Xu Xi is faculty chair at Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Writing and Writer-In-Residence at City University of Hong Kong’s Department of English where she is overseeing a low-residency MFA specializing in Asian writing in English.
	Kyoko Yoshida – Associate Professor in English at Keio University, Tokyo, Japan.