Biodata of some of the writers who participated in the Malaysian Writers and Readers Get Together on 14 May 2023.
Anuradha
Chelliah berasal dari Banting,
Selangor. Beliau mendapat pendidikan rendah dan menengah di Banting. Beliau
meneruskan pengajian dalam jurusan Sarjana Muda Pembangunan Manusia dan
seterusnya Pengajaran Bahasa Inggeris Sebagai Bahasa Kedua (TESL) di Universiti
Putra Malaysia (UPM). Anuradha aktif menulis sejak 2016 dalam Bahasa Malaysia
dan Bahasa Inggeris. Karya beliau boleh dibaca di The Star, Iris Magazine, Anak Sastra, Shakti – The Epitome of Power, dan ALS 2021: Anthology of Poems (2021). Karya Anuradha juga termuat
dalam antologi Busana Bahasa (2019),
Landasan Hidup (2020), dan Peluru Aksara (2020).
Cerpen beliau turut termuat dalam Meredah
Kabus (2021), Serpihan Memorabilia 2020
- Suara (2021), Patah Tumbuh
(2021), Kisah Musim Wabak (2021), dan
Anekdot Peribahasa Yang Tersurat Yang
Tersirat (2022). Puisi beliau boleh dibaca dalam Antologi 3S Hari Guru Hatiki Terharu (2021), Antologi Sajak Momen, Antologi
Sajak Siluet Cinta Ayah Bonda (2022), dan Siri Warisan Budaya - Teluk Belanga dan Periuk Belanga (2023).
Cheryl Lim has been creating her own stories since she was old
enough to read Enid Blyton books. She now creates stories to help brands sell
their products via radio advertisements. Literary genres that she enjoys
include literary fiction, fantasy, travel, and spirituality. Cheryl is also a
cat hu-mom, choir singer, yoga instructor, DIYer, cook/baker, tuak maker and food lover (but, of
course!) with a penchant for super dark chocolate.
Daphne Lee is the consulting editor of
Scholastic Asia, a division of Scholastic Press, where she champions the
creation of Asian content by Asians. To this end, she helped develop and is an
advisor to the ongoing Scholastic Asian Scholastic Asian Book Award and
Scholastic Picture Book Award, which have their home at the annual Asian
Festival of Children’s Content in Singapore. Daphne is also a writer with a
particular interest in Malaysian myths, legends, and supernatural beliefs. She
is the author of Bright Landscapes: A
Short Story Collection (2019); and the curator and editor of Malaysian Tales: Retold & Remixed (2011),
and Remang: An Anthology of Ghostly Tales
(2017). Daphne is currently working on her second collection of short
stories as well as her first novel, which is inspired by Daoist mythology and
ancestral worship.
Jaymee Goh is a Malaysian-Chinese writer,
reviewer, editor, and essayist of speculative fiction. Her work has been published
in a number of magazines and anthologies, such as Lightspeed Magazine, Beneath
Ceaseless Skies, and New Suns:
Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color, and reprinted in LeVar Burton Reads and Best American Science Fiction & Fantasy.
Her reviews and nonfiction have appeared on Tor.com,
The Los Angeles Review of Books, and Strange Horizons. She co-edited The Sea Is Ours: Tales of Steampunk
Southeast Asia (2015), and edited The
WisCon Chronicles Vol. 11: Trials by Whiteness (2017). A graduate from the
Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Workshop in 2016, Jaymee received
her PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of California, Riverside,
where she dissertated in science fiction studies and critical race theory. She
is an editor for Tachyon Publications.
Koh Yok Hwa berketurunan Teochew dan
dilahirkan di Yong Peng, Johor pada tahun 1963. Beliau mendapat pendidikan
rendah di SJKC Yong Peng 1 dan pendidikan menengah di SMK Yong Peng, SM Teknik
Johor Bahru serta Sekolah Tinggi Kluang. Pada tahun 1984, Koh Yok Hwa melanjutkan
pengajian di Fakulti Ekonomi dan Pentadbiran, Universiti Malaya (UM). Beliau
menetap di Kepong mulai 1991 dan memulakan kerjaya sebagai penerbit buku
menerusi Gemilang Publishing Sdn Bhd. Koh Yok Hwa memperolehi ijazah sarjana
pentadbiran perniagaan (MBA) dari Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) pada
2021. Pada 2022, beliau menerima ijazah sarjana pengajian media dari UM. Beliau
aktif menyumbangkan rencana untuk Utusan
Malaysia.
Malini Lakshmi Bai is an author, English
language teacher, and yoga enthusiast based in Cheras, Kuala Lumpur. Having
been intrigued by literature since she was a child, Malini was exposed to some
reading as an early reader due to her interest in stories about culture and tradition.
Through writing short stories and poems in school, she became familiar with the
world of writing. In 2009, Malini represented the school and district in
several youth forums, debate and public speaking competitions due to her penchant
for writing in Bahasa Malaysia and English. Eksentrika
has published English poems by Malini, and Sastera
Kavyan published her Bahasa Malaysia short stories. Her fiction also
appears in Lakaran Diri (2022).
K. Pragalath is a writer who works
as an editor at a Malaysian news website, Harapan
Daily. Previously he was a journalist with several news portals including Malaysiakini, Free Malaysia Today, Berita
Daily, and The Leaders Online. Pragalath
is also involved in digital marketing, especially content marketing, for a
variety of sectors through Elyown Solutions & Consulting. He has also been
involved in fiction writing and has authored two short stories in Bahasa
Malaysia.
Thanusya Shanmuganathan merupakan graduan
sarjana muda sastera dari Universiti Malaya (UM). Beliau sudah menghasilkan
novel berjudul Tak Sengaja Cinta
(2014), Cik Cemerkap vs Encik Selfie
(2016), Savithri (2021) dan Hanya Kau Untukku (2022) menggunakan nama
pena Meera Natasya. Beliau juga aktif menulis skrip, cerpen, esei, dan sajak.
Beliau aktif dalam Koperasi Penulis Nasional (KOPENA) dan Pertubuhan Sasterawan
Kaum India (Kavyan).
Uthaya Sankar SB is arguably the most hated Malaysian writer. He
has been a prolific writer in Bahasa Malaysia since 1992 and some of his
writings have been transcreated into English, Tamil, Mandarin, and German. He is the author of over twenty
books and has written extensively on topics including language, culture,
literature, politics, and religion. In 1999, Uthaya founded Kavyan
Writers Group and since 2009, he has been a columnist for various newspapers
and online news portals. With
numerous literary awards under his belt, Uthaya has also been presented the Ambassador for Peace Award by the Universal
Peace Federation in 2008. In 2023, The Hindusthan Art & Music Society
(India) conferred him the Saraswati Samman
Award. Uthaya lives in Shah Alam, Selangor and enjoys being a
full-time activist, researcher, writer, and publisher.
