About the Contributors of Undertow (Issue 1)
Miên Túc is a writer, translator, and editor from Vietnam. His works have appeared in The Margins, Public Seminar, and ZZZ Review. You can follow him at @mientuc.
Linda Collins is an essayist, poet, and memoirist whose books include Loss Adjustment (Ethos Books), and Sign Language for the Death of Reason (Math Paper Press). A New Zealander formerly based in Singapore, she has an MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia. She was runner-up in Mslexia’s single poem contest, shortlisted for the Bridport Prize, and a finalist in the Joy Harjo contest. You can follow her at @kindofbluegreen and find out more about her work at lindacollinswriter.com.
Loy Sye Yuet is a millennial woman, living in Singapore. She loves cooking/baking and food writing, and above all else, having a really good meal. You can follow her at @sye_caiyu.
Shradha Biyani is a book writing coach, editor and founder of Tashi Press, a boutique publishing company. A graduate of Harvard University, she has worked with publishing houses such as Pan Macmillan, Westland Books and Penguin Random House. She loves poetry, word play and learning new words that can’t be properly translated in other languages.
Lawrence Ypil is an award-winning poet and essayist whose work explores the intersection of text and image, and the role of material culture in the construction of cultural identity. You can find out more about his work at www.lawrenceypil.com.
Titles by these writers
About the Zine
We have always wanted to chronicle the creation and journeying of such portals through creative non-fiction narratives in our region, but with a specific focus on narratives that deal with the themes of history, memory and grief. Behold, this tiny but mighty zine, Undertow.
In this inaugural issue, five writers — Miên Túc, Linda Collins, Loy Sye Yuet, Shradha Biyani and Lawrence Ypil — ruminate on topics such as family and death; the evolution of self and belonging through physical departures, and, more importantly, how the great sweep of time sometimes forces people to reckon with the price of loving anything — be it a person, creature, place, memory, feeling, culture or language.