Preeta Samarasan is a writer of Malaysian Tamil origin. Her first novel, Evening is the Whole Day, won awards in several countries and was longlisted for the Orange and Commonwealth Prizes. Her short fiction and essays have been widely published in literary journals. Her second novel, Tale of the Dreamer's Son, which explores the changing political climate in Malaysia after the Sino-Malay sectarian violence of 1969, was published in 2022. Other than literature, her interests include global food history, Japanese art, and European classical music. She is an enthusiastic but not yet virtuosic harpsichordist. She currently lives in France.

Zen Cho is the author of historical fantasies Sorcerer to the Crown, The True Queen and The Order of the Pure Moon Reflected in Water, as well as a short story collection, Spirits Abroad. Her newest novel, Black Water Sister, is a contemporary fantasy set in Malaysia. Cho is a winner of the Hugo, Crawford and British Fantasy Awards and the LA Times Book Prize/Ray Bradbury Prize, as well as a finalist for the World Fantasy, Ignyte, Lambda, Locus and Astounding Awards. She was born and raised in Malaysia, resides in the UK, and lives in a notional space between the two.

Karina Robles Bahrin was born and raised in Malaysia. She worked in public relations in Kuala Lumpur and was a columnist with The Heat, a weekly by Focus Malaysia, before she moved to Langkawi to set up a resort and restaurant. Her first novel, The Accidental Malay, which examines the human cost of a country's racial policies, was published in August 2022 and won the Epigram Books Fiction Prize the same year. Her short fiction has been published in venues such as Urban Odysseys: KL Stories, KL Noir: Blue, A Subtle Degree of Restraint & Other Stories and Malaysian Tales: Retold & Remixed.

Daphne Lee is the consulting editor at Scholastic Asia, a division of Scholastic Press, where she champions the creation of Asian content by Asians. She helped develop and is an advisor to the ongoing Scholastic Asian Book Award and Scholastic Picture Book Award. Lee is also a writer with a particular interest in Asian folklore. She is the curator and editor of Malaysian Tales: Retold & Remixed and Remang: An Anthology of Ghostly Tales. She is also the author of Bright Landscapes: A Short Story Collection, which contains ten stories that move between our world and the worlds of myth, legend and supernatural fantasy.