APWP Board Members (2010-2012)

Chair – Isagani Cruz

Vice Chairs – Xu Xi & Catherine Cole

Founder/Executive Director – Jane Camens

See photo and minutes of the Board’s 2010 AGM by clicking here. Longer bios of the Board Members can be accessed by clicking on their names below.

	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 is the founder and Executive Director of the Asia-Pacific Writing Partnership.
	Catherine Cole is Professor of Creative Writing at RMIT, Melbourne.
	Jon Cook holds the Chair of Literature, is Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities and is the Director of the Centre for Creative and Performing Arts the University of East Anglia in the UK.
	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.
	Nicholas Jose currently holds the Chair of Creative Writing at the University of Western Sydney and is Chair of Australian Studies at Harvard University for 2009.
	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.
	Kirpal Singh is Associate Professor of English Literature & Creative Thinking at Singapore Management University. He has authored or edited 16 books.
	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.
	Saneh Thongrin is on the editorial board of Journal of English Studies, English Department, Thammasat University, Bangkok, Thailand.
	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.

Advisors

Advisors have the right of audience and debate at APWP meetings. The current advisory committee (and Board) will be rationalised into working subcommittees following the Partnership’s next meeting.

• Adam Aitken is the author of three major collections of poetry and a scholar/practitioner of Asian-Australian literature. He lectures in Creative Writing at the University of Technology, Sydney.
• Harry Aveling is currently Extra Ordinary Professor of Translation Studies in the Faculty of Humanities, University of Indonesia. He has translated extensively from Indonesian and Malay for over three decades.
• Kunal Basu is a writer whose novels include The Opium Clerk, The Miniaturist, and Racists, and a collection of short stories, The Japanese Wife, the lead story of which is being made into a film by Indian director Aparna Sen. He teaches at Oxford University.
• Alison Broinowski, formerly an Australian diplomat, has written extensively about the interface between Australia and Asia. She is co-leader of a research team on Australian-Asian fiction at the University of Wollongong.
• Martha P.Y. Cheung is Chair Professor in Translation, Head of the Translation Programme (BA Hons), and Director of the Centre for Translation at Hong Kong Baptist University. She is also Associate Vice-President of Hong Kong Baptist University.
• Jill Dawson has written six acclaimed novels and edited six other books. She is a member of the Board of the New Writing Partnership in Britain.
• Robert Dixon is Chair of Australian Literature at the University of Sydney.
• Howard Goldblatt has been acclaimed by some as the most important translator of modern and contemporary Chinese literature.
• Kaiser Haq is a poet, essayist, translator and Professor of English at Dhaka University.
• Ivor Indyk is the founding editor of the Australian international literary magazine HEAT and publisher of the Giramondo book imprint, housed within the Writing and Society Research Group at the University of Western Sydney. Giramondo’s lists include a large number of books by Asian-Australian writers. Professor Indyk supervises postgraduate research in Australian literature and literary publishing.
• Ponglada K. Ittimakin (“Panwadee”) is a novelist, writer, columnist, translator, editor, publisher, Director of the Writers’ Association of Thailand, and a member of a sub-committee dealing with copyright in Thailand.
• Leung Ping-Kwan is a poet and novelist. He teaches literature and film at Lingnan University and has published critical works on Hong Kong culture and cinema.
• Eddin Khoo is a poet, writer, journalist and translator. He is Founder and Director of the cultural organisation Pusaka and Principal Editor of Kala – a publishing house in Malaysia dedicated to literary translation.
• Tseen Khoo is the Convenor of the Asian Australian Studies Research Network, and a Monash University Research Fellow. She has published on Asian Australian and Asian Canadian literature, as well as representations of Australian cultural community heritage.
• Christopher (‘Kit’) Kelen is an Associate Professor at the University of Macau where he teaches Literature and Creative Writing.
• Malashri Lal is Professor in the Department of English, University of Delhi, India. She has authored two books and edited eight books in the area of Women’s Writing, and has served on the international jury of the Commonwealth Writers Prize, London.
• Jacqueline Lo is Reader in English and Heads the School of Humanities at the Australian National University. Jacquie is Chair of the Asian Australian Studies Research Network.
• Chandani Lokuge is the Founder Director of the Centre for Postcolonial Writing, Coordinator of the Creative Writing programme, and a Senior Lecturer in English at Monash University. She is the author of nine books, including two novels and a book of short fiction.
• Philip Mead holds the new Chair of Australian Literature at the University of Western Australia.
• Stephen Muecke is a writer and Professor of Writing at the University of New South Wales, Sydney. He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities.
• Wenche Ommundsen is Professor of English and Associate Dean for Research at the University of Wollongong. She has published widely on multicultural writing, and particularly on writers from Asian diasporas. She is currently co-ordinating an ARC-funded project entitled ‘Globalising Australian literature: Asian-Australian writing, Asian perspectives on Australian literature.’
• Laksmi Pamuntjak is a poet, fiction writer, translator, essayist and a publisher and co-founder of Aksara Bookstore in Jakarta.
• Alvin Pang is a Singaporean poet and editor, whose works include Testing the Silence, City of Rain, and several anthologies and websites. His latest project is an anthology of poems from Singapore and Australia, in collaboration with John Kinsella.
• Bruce Pascoe is a writer and publisher who produced the quarterly Australian Short Stories for 16 years. He has published over 20 novels, histories, children’s books and indigenous language dictionaries. He lives at Gipsy Point and is of Bunurong heritage.
• Alexandra Pearson has been living and working in Beijing since 1992. In 2003 she established The Bookworm Group, a bookshop/library/café/event space, which she now runs in three cities in China – Beijing, Chengdu and Suzhou.
• Mohit Prasad teaches Pacific Literature, Diaspora and Postcolonial Studies at the University of the South Pacific (USP) in Fiji. He is the Director of the Pacific Writing Forum and Divisional Head of Literature.
• Julianne Schultz is the founding editor of Griffith REVIEW, an Australian quarterly of ideas and fine writing, and a professor at Griffith University’s Centre for Public Culture and Ideas.
• Ketut Seken is currently a Vice Rector at Universitas Pendidikan Ganesha in Bali.
• Ravi Shankar is Associate Professor at Central Connecticut State University, author of five books or chapbooks of poetry, founding editor of the online journal of the arts, Drunken Boat, and co-editor of Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from Asia, the Middle East & Beyond (W.W. Norton & Co.)
• Bernabe (‘Abe’) Barreto Soares is a poet from East Timor and works as an interpreter/ translator for the UN Peacekeeping Mission, UNMIT.
• Keshab Sigdel is an Executive Committee Member of Literary Association of Nepal, a professional organization of university teachers. Additionally, he is the secretary of Society of Nepali Writing in English (N/WEN) and one of the editors of Of Nepalese Clay, a biannual literary publication of N/WEN. He is also National Vice President and Regional Action Network Coordinator of Amnesty International, Nepal. Samaya Bighatan, his first collection of poems, was published in 2008.
• Sitok Srengenge is a poet, writer, translator and editor. He is also Director of the Utan Kayu International Literary Biennale, Indonesia.
• Regis Stella is Associate Professor of Literature and English at the University of Papua New Guinea and also the Head of the Literature and English Communication Department. His area of specialisation is in Postcolonial Studies and Creative Writing. He is a writer of both fiction and non-fiction. He holds a PhD in English from the University of New South Wales and an Honorary Fellowship in Writing from Iowa.
• Frank Stewart is a writer, translator, editor, and educator. He is a professor of English at the University of Hawaii, president of The Manoa Foundation, and editor of Manoa: A Pacific Journal of International Writing, published since 1989 by the University of Hawai’i Press.
• David Whish-Wilson is a novelist who teaches creative writing, currently returning from lecturing at the University of the South Pacific, Fiji, to teach at the Centre for Aboriginal Studies, Curtin University, Western Australia.
• Ouyang Yu is a poet, novelist, literary translator and critic. He has published 44 books in English and Chinese and is now based in Melbourne.