B.B.P. Hosmillo is the author of Breed Me: a sentence without a subject/ Phối giống tôi: một câu không chủ đề (Ajar Press, 2016) with Vietnamese translation by Hanoi-based poets Nhã Thuyên & Hải Yến. A Pushcart Prize and four-time Best of the Net nominee, his writing is anthologised in Bettering American Poetry (BlazeVOX, 2016) and forthcoming or has appeared in Apogee Journal, BOAAT Journal, Connotation Press, The Collapsar, Transnational Literature, and The Nottingham Review, among others. His interviews can be read in Misfits Magazine and VIDA: Women in Literary Arts. He is the founding co-editor of Queer Southeast Asia: A Literary Journal of Transgressive Art. Hosmillo helped select the poetry in Issue 39 of Cha. [Cha Profile]

Matt Turner's writings can be found in Seedings, Hyperallergic Weekend, Los Angeles Review of Books China Channel and Bookforum, and he has translated or co-translated Lu Xun, Chan Chi Tak, Yan Jun and Hu Jiujiu. He lives in New York City. Turner helped select the fiction and creative non-fiction in Issue 39 of Cha. [Cha Profile]

Tammy Ho Lai-Ming is a founding co-editor of Cha: An Asian Literary Journal and the academic journal Hong Kong Studies (Chinese University Press), English Editor of Voice & Verse Poetry Magazine, and a Vice President of PEN Hong Kong. She has co-edited several poetry anthologies, including Desde Hong Kong: Poets in Conversation with Octavio Paz, Quixotica: Poems East of La Mancha, and Twin Cities: An Anthology of Twin Cinema from Singapore and Hong Kong. Her first poetry collection is Hula Hooping and she is a recipient of the Hong Kong Arts Development Council's Young Artist Award in Literary Arts. She is a co-judge of the Auditory Cortex poetry contest. [Cha Profile]

Lian-Hee Wee became a phonologist when he failed as a syntactician, which followed his failure as comedian, and before that, musician. His latest failure is at veganism. However, his failures are categorically indistinct from current passions since he hasn’t given up trying, tinkering and finding solace that any non-success is material for humor. His political views are naïve because for him RIGHTS & RESPONSIBILITIES apply to all sentient beings, even if they have a predator-prey relationship. He was born and raised in Singapore. The tropical heat drove him north only to settle in Hong Kong where it turned out to be only cooler in certain months. Wee is a Professor teaching at Hong Kong Baptist University. He is a co-judge of the Auditory Cortex poetry contest. [Cha Profile]