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Anak
Sastra, Issue 6
Table of Contents
"The Bear, the Coconut Shell, and the
Buddhist Doctor" by Clifton Bates
"Children of Privilege" by M. Reza
Purbhai
"Thy Word Is a Lamp unto My Feet" by
Ling Tan
"Manila" by G.B. Miller
"Lost and Found" by Abidin Zainal
"On the Mekong" by Michael Shorb
Contributing Writer Bios
Clifton Bates has spent a good amount of time in Thailand and Hong Kong. For the past 35 years, he has lived in Alaska involved with Alaska Native education as a teacher, administrator, and university professor. Over the years he has published a variety of plays, poetry, fiction, journal articles on education, and one book entitled Conflicting Landscapes: American Schooling/Alaska Natives.
M. Reza Purbhai is a professor and author in the field of South
Asian history. He was born in Pakistan and lived in various parts of Asia,
Europe, and North America before coming to rest in Louisiana (USA).
Ling Tan
(nee Tan Lai Ling) wasborn and raised in a Hainanese coffee-shop in the Little India part of Kuala
Lumpur, Malaysia. At the age of 21, she
left on a scholarship to the East-West Center in Hawai'i and eventually found
her niche in the Lake Atitlan region of Guatemala, where she has been a
permanent resident for the last few decades and raised two children. A demographer turned public relations
consultant turned restaurateur, Ling moonlights
as a teacher, brews fruit wine, plays the dulcimer, writes, and is invested in
community-building. She is a founding parent of Panajachel Colegio
Internacional and is on the founding Board of Directors of Oxlajuj B'atz'
(Thirteen Threads), an NGO with the mission to empower indigenous women through
change.
G.B. Miller is a lecturer of
composition currently teaching at Qatar University in Doha, Qatar. His most recent publications include
"Motionless Movement" in Cha:
An Asian Literary Journal (November, 2011, Vol. 15) and "Istanbul"
in Quarterly Literary Review Singapore
(October, 2011, Vol. 10 No. 4).
San Francisco-based poet Michael Shorb's work reflects an
abiding interest in environmental issues, history, and the lyrical form. His
poems have appeared in over 100 magazines and anthologies, including the Nation, Sun, Michigan Quarterly
Review, Queen's Quarterly, Poetry Salzburg Review, Commonweal, Rattle, Urthona, Underground Voices, Great American Poetry Show, and European
Judaism. His collection, Whale
Walkers Morning, will be published in the winter of 2013 by Shabda Press.
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