The Liminal team acknowledges the traditional custodians of the lands on which we work and live—the Wurundjeri and Boon Wurrung peoples of the Kulin nation.
We pay our respects to Elders past and present. This land was never ceded. It always was, and always will be, Aboriginal land.
Liminal Team
Leah Jing McIntosh
Founder & Editor
@l___j___m___
Leah Jing McIntosh is a critic, researcher and the founding editor of Liminal. She is a graduate researcher at the University of Melbourne. Her writing work has appeared in places like The Age, Kill Your Darlings and Meanjin.
Read Leah in conversation with Lee Lai, Julie Koh, or her introduction to the Liminal Review of Books. Leah’s film portraiture appears through the Liminal interview archive.
Cher Tan
Editor
@mxcreant
Cher Tan is an essayist and critic. Her work has appeared in Sydney Review of Books, The Saturday Paper, SBS, Runway Journal and The Lifted Brow, among others. She is the reviews editor at Meanjin.
Read Cher in conversation with Eugenia Flynn, John Young Zerunge, Sonia Nair, or Eugenia Lim, or her review of Tao Lin’s Taipei for the Liminal Review of Books.
Hasib Hourani
Creative Producer, Liminal Festival
hourani.glitch.me
Hasib Hourani lives and works on unceded Wangal Country. You can find his work in Meanjin, Overland, and Going Down Swinging, among others. His debut book of poetry will be released with Giramondo in 2024 and New Directions in 2025.
Read Hasib in conversation with Lara Chamas, Mohamed Chamas, and Jeanine Hourani.
Adolfo Aranjuez
Publication Editor
adolfoaranjuez.com
Adolfo Aranjuez is an editor, writer, speaker and dancer. He has held editorial tenures for Metro, Archer and the Melbourne International Film Festival, and his essays, criticism and poetry have been published widely, including in Meanjin, Right Now, Screen Education, The Manila Review and Cordite.
Read Adolfo in conversation with Tony Ayres, Benjamin Law, Mama Alto, Raina Peterson, Elizabeth Flux or Alan Weedon.
Elizabeth Flux
Associate Editor, Haunt Chapbook
@ElizabethFlux
Elizabeth Flux is an award-winning writer, editor-at-large for the Melbourne City of Literature office, and the editor of The Victorian Writer. In 2019 and 2020 she was a convening judge for the VPLAs. Her fiction and nonfiction work has been widely published.
Read Elizabeth in conversation with Mindy Gill, Melanie Cheng or Lawrence Leung, or her reviews for the Liminal Review of Books.
Annie Luo
Designer
annieluo.xyz
Annie Luo is a designer and art director based in Narrm, with a predominant focus on visual identity, digital design and print media.
View Annie’s work on our chapbook series here; or buy Liminal Volume II.
Lisa Divissi
Podcast Producer
@lisadivissi
Lisa Divissi has worked across radio, podcasts, television and digital at the ABC. Her work can be found at Radio National's Earshot, Blueprint for Living, RN Drive, The Hook Up on Triple J and ABC 7.30.
Columnists
Sumarlinah Raden Winoto
Boundless Curator
@SMRW
Sumarlinah is a dancer, activist and organiser. They co-host the podcast Condemned to the Labyrinth, which investigates the violence of Australian immigration politics, and shifting understanding of “borders”. Their fascination with understanding multiplex and intricate identities through fractals and Venn diagrams spills into curating Boundless.
Read Boundless.
Mike Eleven
Spotlights Curator
@mike.eleven
Mike Eleven is a designer, street painter and fine artist. Working with global clients such as Nike and Google, Mike has also been titled one of the 40 most iconic Melbourne street artists in the Thames & Hudson book, Melbourne Street Art Guide. He is also a big fan of comedy, soup noodles and small birds.
Visit Spotlights, or pick up a copy of Liminal Volume I, designed by Mike.
Non Chalant
Playlist Curator 2018—2019
@fl_owerboy
Born in Sydney to Chinese and Lebanese parents, Non Chalant is a classically-trained musician turned producer. Under the name of Flower Boy 卓颖贤, she has performed in Sydney, as well as in Beijing and Shanghai.
Read Non Chalant in conversation with Yeo or Mari Stuart; or, read her playlists.
Colin Shon Yao Ho
Playlist Curator 2023
@colindigs
Colin Shon Yao Ho loves music, throwing parties, and playing records for people. He’s a former journalist and once helped produce the ABC TV show Rage. He lives and works on unceded Gadigal, Darug, and Wallumettagal lands.
Read Colin in conversation with Lee Tran Lam or Kumi Taguchi.
Interviewers
Robert Wood
www.robertdwood.net
Robert Wood is interested in history, language, philosophy, nature and poetry. He is the author of History & the Poet. In 2018, he is an Emerging Critic with the Sydney Review of Books and the author of a food blog.
Read Robert in conversation with Bella Li, Eileen Chong or Naomi Velaphi.
Robert curated our collaboration with the Centre for Stories. Read more here.
Adalya Nash Hussein
@adalyanh
Adalya Nash Hussein is a writer, editor and educator. Her work has appeared in Voiceworks, The Lifted Brow, The Suburban Review and Going Down Swinging. She is the editor of Voiceworks, and a previous editor at Liminal.
Read Adalya in conversation with Manisha Anjali.
Danny Silva Soberano
@DNNYSLVSBRN
Danny Silva Soberano is a poet. Their poems have appeared in Australian Poetry, Cordite Poetry Review, and Peril magazine, among other places.
Read Danny in conversation with Panda Wong.
Linh Nguyen
@linhtwittler
Our former deputy editor, Linh Nguyễn is a writer, editor and arts producer. She is the Program Coordinator of the Emerging Writers’ Festival. She studied Comparative Literature at Monash University, researching postcolonial and diasporic Vietnamese Literature.
Read Linh in conversation with Phuong Ngo or Paul Catapang Podosky.
Amie Mai
@banh.memeee
Amie Mai is a maker, designer and sometimes shopgirl from Melbourne. She is currently working as an assistant designer for Melbourne womenswear label RYDER.
Read Amie in conversation with Vivienne La, Catherine Huang, or Christina Luo.
Yeo
@snackswithyeo
Yeo is a musician from Melbourne who has independently released five full-length albums over a career spanning more than a decade. When his back isn't sore, he likes playing baseball, running and building bicycles.
Whitney McIntosh
@whitmcintosh
Whitney is a writer and PhD candidate at Columbia University, New York. She studies the postmodern intellectual movement and its impact on democratic behaviour. She has been recently published in Young Australians in International Affairs.
Read Whitney in conversation with Rachel Tai, Kyle Casey Chu, Thuy On, or Felicia Anchuli King.
Margot Tanjutco
@margotxmargot
Margot Tanjutco is an actor, writer, content creator, and multidisciplinary artist. She recently finished a successful season of her solo show Vanity Fair Enough at The Coopers Malthouse for Melbourne International Comedy Festival, where she was also nominated for the Golden Gibbo.
Read Margot in conversation with Ming-Zhu Hii.
Sophie Qin
@SophieQin_
Sophie is an international relations enthusiast, committed to advancing Australia’s engagement with Asia. She’s passionate about learning Indonesian and empowering Asian voices in the region.
Read Sophie in conversation with Tara Kenny.
Shirley Le
@thatannoyingvirgo
Shirley Le is a second generation Vietnamese-Australian writer who is part of the Sweatshop Writers Collective. Her short stories and essays have been published in Meanjin, The Lifted Brow, The Griffith Review and SBS Online.
Read Shirley in conversation with Joey Bui and Maryam Azam.
Baya Ou Yang
@bayaouyang
Baya Ou Yang is a Marketing Communications student and former editor of Farrago, who enjoys telling stories and having conversations. Her recent hobby involves eagerly consuming anything that will help her better celebrate and understand her Asianness.
Read Baya in conversation with Shu-Ling Chua or Yen-Rong Wong.
Nathania Gilson
@unicornology
Nathania Gilson is a writer, editor, and multimedia producer. Her work has appeared in the Guardian, ABC, SBS, Kill Your Darlings, The Lifted Brow, Meanjin, and more.
Read Nathania in conversation with Snehargho Ghosh and Sumarlinah Raden Winoto.
Steven James Finch
@sjfinchy
Steven James Finch is a community artist and writer who lives and works on the unceded lands of the Whadjuk Noongar people. They have a migrant settler background with English, Cantonese and Hokkien heritage, and an ancestral connection to Christmas Island.
Read Steven in conversation with Gabby Loo.
Sumudu Samarawickrama
Sumudu Samarawickrama’s work has appeared in Boston Review, Overland, Meanjin and the Lifted Brow. As part of FCAC’s West Writer's Group, she is interested in how anger can be a tool towards community. She is on a journey to decolonise her soul.
Read Sumudu in conversation with Michelle D'Souza and Shastra Deo.
Angelita Biscotti
@angelita.biscotti
Angelita Biscotti is a queer astrologer in Melbourne, Australia. Her words have been published in Djed Press, Archer, The Lifted Brow, Overland, Peril, Cordite Poetry Review and elsewhere. Her erotic poetry chapbook Else But A Madness Most Discreet is available through Vagabond Press.
Read Angelita in conversation with Raquel Solier.
Devana Senanayake
@dsenanayake16
Devana is a journalist and radio producer. She focuses on race, immigration, de-colonisation, diasporas and food. Devana has been featured on SBS, Meanjin, Overland, Archer Magazine and VICE. She also participated in documentaries made by the BBC, Aljazeera and ABC.
Read Devana in conversation with Padmini Sebastian or Marisa Wikramanayake.
Stephen Pham
@stpstpstpstpstp
Stephen Pham is a Vietnamese-Australian writer from Cabramatta. His work has appeared in Meanjin, Overland, Sydney Review of Books, The Lifted Brow and SBS Life.
Read Stephen in conversation with Shirley Le.
Madison Griffiths
@madisonrgriffiths
Madison Griffiths is a writer, artist and poet whose work has been published in VICE, SBS, Overland, Daily Life, Meanjin, and Kill Your Darlings, amongst others. She is currently producing, creating and hosting her latest podcast Tender.
Read Madison in conversation with Whitney Yip.
Liana Skrzypczak
@lianaskrzypczak
Liana Skrzypczak is an educator by day and a writer by weekend. In 2017, she was the South Australian recipient of the Hachette Mentoring Program.Her short stories have been published in Meanjin Quarterly, Island Magazine and The Big Issue Australia. She is the 2019 Kat Muscat Fellow.
Read Liana in conversation with Ra Chapman.
Sonia Nair
@son_nair
Sonia is a writer, and critic. She blogs at Whatever Floats Your Bloat, and is also Program Manager at Melbourne Writers Festival.
Read Sonia in conversation with Bhakthi Puvanenthiran.
Sophia Cai
@sophiatron
Sophia Cai is an emerging curator and arts writer with a particular interest in Asian art history as well as craft-based contemporary art practices. She completed her Masters in Art History at the Courtauld Institute, London in 2014.
Tara Kenny
@wordsbytara
Tara Kenny is a writer and editor whose work has been published in The Guardian, Overland, The Lifted Brow, Catalogue Magazine and numerous other independent publications.
Read Tara in conversation with Emma Do.
Omar Sakr
@OmarjSakr
Omar Sakr is an Arab Australian poet from Western Sydney. His debut collection, These Wild Houses, was shortlisted for the Kenneth Slessor Prize and the Judith Wright Calanthe award. His new book is The Lost Arabs.
Read Omar in conversation with Hoda Afshar.
Andy Butler
@andyray87
Andy Butler is a Filipino-Australian writer, curator and artist from Melbourne. His essays on art, politics and Australian culture have been published widely, including in Overland and Art+Australia.
Read Andy in conversation with Siying Zhou or James Nguyen.
Mari Stuart
@badgalmariri__
Mari Stuart is a radio producer, label runner, and marketing coordinator at MusicNSW. Her work often revolves around topics of politics, diversity, gender, and feminism.
Read Mari in conversation with Tanya Ali.
Louisa Luong
Louisa is a writer and legal research assistant in Sydney. She is the former editor-in-chief of Vertigo in 2017, and her current focus is on refugee narratives, racism and goofy people who make art.
Read Louisa in conversation with Wilson Leung.
Kamna Muddagouni
@kamnamm
Kamna is a lawyer, writer, communications adviser and podcaster. She has been published in Daily Life, The Vocal, Junkee and Noisey. In 2016, she launched the podcast Can U Not?with Brodie Lancaster. Kamna is also on the board of Fair Agenda, a not for profit organisation campaigning for gender equality.
Read Kamna in conversation with Tim Lo Surdo or Kish Lal.
Panda Wong
@washedup_retailsuperstar
Panda is a baby poet living on unceded land. Her poetry oscillates between her undying love for Rihanna, being constantly annoyed at life and wine mum memes.
Read Panda in conversation with Lorilee Yang.
Vidya S. Rajan
@vidyarrrr
Vidya S. Rajan is an award-winning writer, comedian, and performance-maker working mainly across television and theatre. She is interested in work that is often sharply hilarious, formally inventive, and ethically probing.
Read Vidya in conversation with Joshua Francis.
Matt Chun
@matt.chun
Living, working and travelling with his 9-year-old son, Matt’s work spans text, drawing, picture books and comics. Matt is the current Children’s Literature Fellow at the State Library of Victoria in Melbourne/Naarm. He is also the 2019-20 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art’s Emerging Writer.
Read Matt in conversation with Louise Zhang, or Abdul-Raman Abdullah.
Tracy Chen
Tracy Chen is a musician and producer, combining interests in pop music, slowness and the natural warmth of field recording. Previous work and performances include OzAsia Festival, composition for Adelaide’s ‘Dances for a Small Stage’ and a residency with Brighter Sound’s (UK) Artistic Directors Series.
Read Tracy in conversation with Corin Ileto.
Andy Yee
@andysfrnds
Andy Yee is a Sydney-based illustrator who works across diverse forms of media including illustration, video and podcasting.
Read Andy in conversation with Michael Hing.
Michelle Law
@ms_michellelaw
Michelle Law is an award-winning writer working in print, theatre, film and television. She wrote the smash hit play Single Asian Female and co-created, co-wrote-and starred in the SBS series Homecoming Queens. Her most recent play Miss Peony will be staged at Belvoir St Theatre in 2021.
Read Michelle in conversation with Corrie Chen.
Martyn Reyes
@guapo.pwet
Martyn Reyes is an emerging writer and audio maker born to Filipino migrants, working on Gadigal land. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Arts in Communication from UTS. With a particular interest in creative nonfiction exploring socio-political themes, his work can be found in SBS Voices, Peril Magazine, Pencilled In and more.
Read Martyn in conversation with Marcus Whale.
Terri Ann Quan Sing
@terriannqs
Terri Ann Quan Sing is a writer and a reader. You can find her recent words online in Peril, Meanjin, The Lifted Brow, Scum, Mascara, and Stilts. She is the host of Hello Poet, a podcast featuring conversations with poets.
Read Terri Ann in conversation with Ouyang Yu.
Hannah Wu
@hannnahwu
Hannah Wu studies Art History and Creative Writing at the University of Melbourne, and is learning how to play the Chinese dulcimer. She has been published in Voiceworks and The Big Hole. She is currently writing for Island Island art writing program at Bus Projects Gallery, and participating in the Seventh Gallery Emerging Writers Program.
Read Hannah in conversation with Andy Szetho.
Johanna Ng
@carlingfordgirl
Johanna Ng is a Carlingford-based artist focussed on drawing, photography, and storytelling. She has no professional accolades to speak of but she’s trying really hard.
Read Johanna in conversation with Hum Mahbub.
Claire Cao
@clairexinwen
Claire Cao is a writer from Western Sydney. Her work has appeared in The Big Issue, The Lifted Brow, Running Dog, Voiceworks and Cordite Poetry Review.
Read Claire in conversation with Michael Sun.
Nithya Nagarajan
@barefootdreaming
Nithya Nagarajan is a contemporary performance maker and curator working across Australia and the Asia Pacific.
Read Nithya in conversation with Amrita Hepi or Jamie Marie Lewis.