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Audio Section
Poetry
Fiction
Voice Performers of BLJ Issue 3
Katie Gustin is Brazilian and went to live in the United States when she was three years old. She is a language teacher and over the years has taught both Portuguese and English as second languages at Yale University, The International Center of New Haven, Connecticut, and Associação Alumni, in São Paulo, Brazil. Among Katie's pupils, there have been many children and teenagers – some quite brilliant, some quite jolly, some way too cool for words. And a four year old who never learned the language, but could run around and around the table in circles, leaving Katie very dizzy indeed. Katie Gustin has been writing fiction since she herself was a child. Her most recent story appears in Emerge Literary Journal. The story she performs here, “Gina the Pote and the Hoot and a Half”, is her own work.
Mary Ann Tear is a BIFF adjudicator as well as a Trinity College London senior examiner and she is their Drama and Performance Consultant for SEA based in Singapore. She is a choreographer, director and Performing Arts lecturer. All this work has taken her to Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, Vietnam, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Hong Kong, India, Sri Lanka, Canada, as well as many UK and European centres. Whilst enjoying the examining, adjudicating, directing, choreographing, and lecturing Ms Tear has also found time to read, listen to music, to go to the theatre, visit art galleries, and watch the latest films, believing that it is so important to be up to date with movements in the contemporary arts scene. She also enjoys spending time with her family and friends in Singapore.
Aubrey Kirkham Bjork works as an online instructor for Brigham Young University-Idaho. When she’s not teaching, she works as a freelance designer / editor and mothers two active children. Her favourite bucket list item: to own the complete collection of Andrew Lang’s fairy books. The story she performs here, “Mud Memories”, is her own work.
Kwok Chun Wang Tom is about to be a secondary school student. He is a two-time English verse-speaking winner at the Hong Kong Schools Speech Festival and three-time English verse-speaking winner in his school's annual speech event. Besides performing texts, he writes poetry, swims, plays the clarinet, paints and reads a lot. He is currently preparing for his Grade 8 London College of Music examination in Speech & Drama. He lives in Hong Kong with his parents and sister.
Sean Leung is a high school student who has been performing poem-presenting and prose reading since early primary school. He can appreciate poems in four different languages. Originally from Hong Kong, he now resides and studies in Australia.
Daniel Galef loves writing funny poetry almost as much as he loves reading it! He has been writing poems for twenty years. He has previously published funny poetry in Light Quarterly, Lighten Up, Snakeskin Poetry, Child of Words, and Word Ways, among others. The verse he performs here, “Dear Mrs. Millner”, is his own work.
Claire Mei-yee Leung was born and raised in Hong Kong. She received her M.F.A. in creative writing in English at the University of Hong Kong. Her poems have been published in CU Writing in English, HKU Creative Writers, and Imprint 2011. She also writes short stories, such as “The Birthmark” which appeared in CU Writing in English, and plays. Her play “The Grande Barbie Doll” was awarded “Outstanding Script” in the 2010 EMI Secondary School English Drama Festival (Hong Kong). She is currently a home director residing in Chicago with her loving husband.
Justin Chun-hei Lee is currently a Secondary 2 (Grade 8) student in Hong Kong. He loves reading and performing English materials. He was a winner with Honour (scored 90+) at the Hong Kong Schools Speech Festival in verse speaking. He attained Grade 8 with distinction in the Trinity Guildhall examination (Performing Text) in his first attempt to take a speech & drama examination.
Agnes Hio has been venturing into the art of “soul engineering” after having gotten a degree in English Literature and Music. She has an unfathomable weakness for avocados, Hemingway’s full-stops and the sultry voices of Lana Del Rey and Benedict Cumberbatch.
Katie Gustin is Brazilian and went to live in the United States when she was three years old. She is a language teacher and over the years has taught both Portuguese and English as second languages at Yale University, The International Center of New Haven, Connecticut, and Associação Alumni, in São Paulo, Brazil. Among Katie's pupils, there have been many children and teenagers – some quite brilliant, some quite jolly, some way too cool for words. And a four year old who never learned the language, but could run around and around the table in circles, leaving Katie very dizzy indeed. Katie Gustin has been writing fiction since she herself was a child. Her most recent story appears in Emerge Literary Journal. The story she performs here, “Gina the Pote and the Hoot and a Half”, is her own work.
Mary Ann Tear is a BIFF adjudicator as well as a Trinity College London senior examiner and she is their Drama and Performance Consultant for SEA based in Singapore. She is a choreographer, director and Performing Arts lecturer. All this work has taken her to Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, Vietnam, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Hong Kong, India, Sri Lanka, Canada, as well as many UK and European centres. Whilst enjoying the examining, adjudicating, directing, choreographing, and lecturing Ms Tear has also found time to read, listen to music, to go to the theatre, visit art galleries, and watch the latest films, believing that it is so important to be up to date with movements in the contemporary arts scene. She also enjoys spending time with her family and friends in Singapore.
Aubrey Kirkham Bjork works as an online instructor for Brigham Young University-Idaho. When she’s not teaching, she works as a freelance designer / editor and mothers two active children. Her favourite bucket list item: to own the complete collection of Andrew Lang’s fairy books. The story she performs here, “Mud Memories”, is her own work.
Kwok Chun Wang Tom is about to be a secondary school student. He is a two-time English verse-speaking winner at the Hong Kong Schools Speech Festival and three-time English verse-speaking winner in his school's annual speech event. Besides performing texts, he writes poetry, swims, plays the clarinet, paints and reads a lot. He is currently preparing for his Grade 8 London College of Music examination in Speech & Drama. He lives in Hong Kong with his parents and sister.
Sean Leung is a high school student who has been performing poem-presenting and prose reading since early primary school. He can appreciate poems in four different languages. Originally from Hong Kong, he now resides and studies in Australia.
Daniel Galef loves writing funny poetry almost as much as he loves reading it! He has been writing poems for twenty years. He has previously published funny poetry in Light Quarterly, Lighten Up, Snakeskin Poetry, Child of Words, and Word Ways, among others. The verse he performs here, “Dear Mrs. Millner”, is his own work.
Claire Mei-yee Leung was born and raised in Hong Kong. She received her M.F.A. in creative writing in English at the University of Hong Kong. Her poems have been published in CU Writing in English, HKU Creative Writers, and Imprint 2011. She also writes short stories, such as “The Birthmark” which appeared in CU Writing in English, and plays. Her play “The Grande Barbie Doll” was awarded “Outstanding Script” in the 2010 EMI Secondary School English Drama Festival (Hong Kong). She is currently a home director residing in Chicago with her loving husband.
Justin Chun-hei Lee is currently a Secondary 2 (Grade 8) student in Hong Kong. He loves reading and performing English materials. He was a winner with Honour (scored 90+) at the Hong Kong Schools Speech Festival in verse speaking. He attained Grade 8 with distinction in the Trinity Guildhall examination (Performing Text) in his first attempt to take a speech & drama examination.
Agnes Hio has been venturing into the art of “soul engineering” after having gotten a degree in English Literature and Music. She has an unfathomable weakness for avocados, Hemingway’s full-stops and the sultry voices of Lana Del Rey and Benedict Cumberbatch.
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