NutMag Volume 7: Inheritance

You Lin is a writer whose pieces explore darker themes consistent with the fragments of her identity. Her work has been published by Archer Magazine, The Bitchin' Kitsch, A Coup of Owls, and The Minison Project's Pop-Up Pride Issue, among others. Locally, you can find her work at Malaysian Indie Fiction and Queer Southeast Asia: A Literary Journal of Transgressive Art. When she's not writing self-deprecating poetry and fiction, you can find her questioning the purpose of her existence, overworking as usual, and losing faith in humanity.

Celine Wu is a reader first and foremost and a writer only when forced to admit to having published short stories. Having stepped down from managing a translation project, she now has more time to mismanage her life as a hobby.

Sofea Lee was born and raised in Penang and is now happy to be back after a long stint away. In her past life, she worked as a financial statement auditor, but these days she prefers getting lost in open-world video games, running along Karpal Singh Drive, and eating tom yum every chance she gets.

Growing up in Butterworth, Jenny Hor writes fiction inspired by her life experiences and knowledge. In 2023, she completed her Masters in Creative Writing at the University of Surrey, UK. Her works are featured in publications like Asian Anthology: New Writing Vol 1 and NutMag Vol 6: Hope. Jenny spends her free time exploring new locations, which she records on her travel blog, Jenny's Binoculars.

Alif Zamri merupakan peminat dan penulis haiku. Kumpulan haiku pertamanya berjudul Langit Biru diterbit pada 2022. Melalui haiku, penulis gemar meneroka dan menulis tentang alam, manusia serta budaya.

Aimi Shaheera Salleh is a novice—and hopeful—writer from Penang, Malaysia. She enjoys photography and travelling but has never gotten over the fear of flying. An avid coffee drinker, she believes her life depends on it. She also wishes to start a travel blog but is getting too comfortable with the joy of doing nothing.

JY Tan is a writer whose short stories have appeared in multiple NutMag volumes and hopes to get a novel published someday. When she isn’t selling her soul to pay for her cat son’s food (a.k.a. working a day job), she can be found on Twitter at @JYTan6, Bluesky at @jytan.bsky.social, or her website at jytan.org.

Lucille is a retired but “rewired” academic. She dubs herself a ‘seenager’ since she’s seen and been ‘through the ages!’ She’s always enjoyed word-work and has inked several publications of both the scholarly and non-scholarly kind. She resorts to poetry when mood, muse, or madness prompts. (“O! that way madness lies.” ~ Shakespeare) The results?

•     the vaguely vacuous verse

•     the purely puerile

•     the occasionally contemplative

•     or simply FUN … & why not!

Jinming Khor’s love for writing stemmed from his late grandmother, who used to tell him stories on the way to school. He was born in Penang, Malaysia, which can be seen in his tendency to switch to Chinese mid-sentence after forgetting English words. His writing was born from cringey fanfiction.net shippings which explains his obsession with romance fic. Currently, Jinming’s list of worries includes his deteriorating photography and sound-checking skills, the ever-growing list of anime merch he longs to buy, and most important of all—passing his Software Engineering degree.

Miriam Devaprasana is researcher, writer, and community builder. She is the founding member of Dabble Dabble Jer Collective and is currently pursuing a PhD in Urban Sociolinguistics. Miriam believes that all stories are worthy of time and space, and dabbles in varied creative expressions to bring these stories to life. She hopes that one day, her work will help form a new way of thinking ‘Malaysia’. Look her up on Instagram: @thelocalsojourner.

Anna Tan writes fantasy stories and fairy tales, and has short stories included in various anthologies. She helps people publish books at Teaspoon Publishing, which includes yelling at HTML for epub reasons. She has an MA in Creative Writing: The Novel from Brunel University London and is interested in Malay/Nusantara and Chinese legends and folklore in exploring the intersection of language, culture, and faith. She can be found tweeting as @natzers and forgetting to update annatsp.com.

Wan Phing Lim was born to Malaysian parents in 1986 in Butterworth, Penang. Her short stories have appeared in literary magazines and anthologies in UK, USA, Canada, Japan, Singapore and Malaysia. She lives in Penang and Two Figures in a Car is her first short story collection.

Yee Heng Yeh is a writer and Mandarin-to-English translator. His poetry has been featured in The KITA! Podcast, adda, Malaysian Millennial Voices, and Strange Horizons, while his translations of poetry have been published in Mantis and Nashville Review. His story “Cockroach”, first published in Imprints: Chevening Writers Series 2021, also appeared in Guernica. You can find him on Twitter at @HengYeh42.