Alvin Pang Editor & Author

Lucija Stupica is a Slovene poet and interior designer currently living in Sweden. Having studied architecture in Ljubljana, she wrote articles on interior deign and architecture, and designed public and private interiors. She co-founded the Pranger Festival in Slovenia, an annual gathering of poets, literary critics and poetry translators and was its co-organiser from 2004-2010. From 2007 to 2009, she was also Vice -President of the Slovene Writers’ Association. Stupica started publishing her poems in literary journals in 1997 and her debut collection, Cello in the Sun (2000) won her both the Golden Bird Award for an outstanding artistic achievement and the Slovene Book Fair Award for the best first collection of the year. It was followed by three more poetry collections, The Windcatcher (2004), The Island, the City, and Others (2008) and Vanishing Points (2019), all of which have been translated into several languages. She is the recipient of several writer’s scholarships and has been writer-in-residence in Berlin, New York City, Krems an der Donau and Visby, Gotland. Andrej Peric (formerly Pleterski) is an award-winning literary translator from English, French, and Slovak into Slovenian, and of Slovenian poetry into English and Slovak. He holds an M.A. in Translation Studies (Slovenian-English-French combination) and in addition to numerous poetry and prose translations in all of the leading Slovenian literary journals and on national radio, he has published (in Slovenia and the US) more than twenty book-format translations (British, Australian, French, Slovak, Maltese, Icelandic and Slovenian authors) and compiled five anthologies (poetry, prose, folk tales). In He has translated an anthology of Slovak short stories (2016) and co-translated an anthology of contemporary Maltese literature (2018), an anthology of contemporary Icelandic literature (2020) and an anthology of Estonian literature (2022). Most recently, he has published (in one book) four integral collections by the renowned Slovak poet Mila Haugová at the prestigious Slovenian publishing house Cankarjeva založba. Alvin Pang (冯啟明) is a poet, writer, editor, anthologist and translator. He was Singapore’s Young Artist of the Year for Literature in 2005 and received the Singapore Youth Award for Arts and Culture in 2007, and the JCCI Foundation Education Award in 2008. His poems have been translated into over fifteen languages, and he has appeared in major festivals and publications worldwide. He is among only a handful of poets from Singapore to be listed in the Oxford Companion to Modern Poetry in English (2nd Edition, 2013). His books include City of Rain (2003), Other Things and Other Poems (Croatia, 2012) and When the Barbarians Arrive, published in the UK in 2012 by Arc. Most recently, he published a collection of selected and new works, What Happened: Poems 1997-2017 (2017). His collection of short prose, What Gives Us Our Names (2011), has sold more than 10,000 copies to date. A Fellow of the University of Iowa’s International Writing Program (2002), he is a Board Member of the International Poetry Studies Institute, based in the University of Canberra. He is also a founding director of The Literary Centre – a non-profit initiative dedicated to interdisciplinary capacity, multilingual communication, and positive social change.