Neo Choon Hong (梁钺) who adopted the pseudonym Liang Yue (梁钺), was an Assistant Director with the Ministry of Education and a senior lecturer with the National Institute of Education. His first poetry collection, So Says Tea, published in 1984, was awarded a book prize by the Singapore Book Development Council. He went on to publish four other poetry collections: Three Vicissitudes in Life, Beyond Poems, etc. His research work entitled The Direction and Footsteps of Literature was published in 2009. His poems can be widely found in both local and international anthologies.

Grace Chia is a writer and editor from Singapore who has published several books including the novel The Wanderlusters, the short story collection Every Moving Thing That Lives Shall Be Food and the poetry collections Womango and Cordelia. She is also editor of the prose anthology We R Family and founder of Singapore’s first women’s online literary journal, Junoesque. She participated in the first national Writer-in-Residence programme at Nanyang Technological University in conjunction with the National Arts Council from 2011–2012, during which she authored The Cuckoo Conundrum. Grace Chia has lectured at both NTU and DigiPen, mentored emerging writers, and judged poetry competitions in Singapore.