Malachi Edwin Vethamani

Malachi Edwin Vethamani is a Malaysian Indian writer, poet, editor, critic, bibliographer and academic. He is Emeritus Professor with University of Nottingham. His poetry publications include: Life Happens (Maya Press, 2017) and Complicated Lives (Maya Press, 2016).  He published an edited volume of poems entitled Malchin Testament: Malaysian Poems (Maya Press, 2017). Malchin Testament: Malaysian Poems won the Best Book prize in the English Language category for the Malaysian Best Book Award 2020 organised by the Malaysian Publishers Association. His latest publication is an edited volume of poems entitled Malaysian Millennial Voices (Maya Press, 2021). He has a collection of short stories, Coitus Interruptus and Other Stories (2018). A theatrical adaptation of three of his stories from Coitus Interruptus and Other Stories were reworked as monologues and performed as ‘Love Matters’ by Playpen Performing Arts Trust in Mumbai in 2017 and 2018. His short story ‘Best Man’s Kiss was reworked into a short play for an event called ‘Inqueerable’ organized by Queer Ink in Mumbai on 8th September 2019. His edited volume of Malaysian short stories, Ronggeng-Ronggeng: Malaysian Short Stories (Maya Press, 2020) was shortlisted for the Best Book in the English language category for the Malaysian Best Book Award 2020 by the Malaysian Publishers Association. His stories have also been published in Borderless Journal (2021), Queer Southeast Asia Literary Journal (2020), Creative Flight Literary Journal (2020), Business Mirror (2018), and Lakeview International Journal of Literature and Arts (2017). He is Founding Editor of Men Matters Online Journal (www.menmattersonlinejournal.com).