Teaching Staff

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Angie Mazakis is a 2025 National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing fellow. Her first book, I Was Waiting to See What You Would Do First was chosen by Billy Collins as a finalist for The Miller Williams Prize, published by University of Arkansas Press, and named one of the Best Books of 2020 by the Boston Globe. Her poems have appeared in The New Republic, Boston Review, The Iowa Review, Black Warrior Review, Mizna and in the anthology Heaven Looks Like Us: Palestinian Poetry. Her essays have been published in The Atlantic, Gulf Coast, and DIAGRAM. She has an MFA from George Mason University and a PhD from Ohio University.
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Barrie Sherwood is Associate Professor of English in the School of Humanities. He is Coordinator of Creative Writing, Director of the Master of Arts in Creative Writing and Publishing, and Director of the NTU/NAC Asia Creative Writing Programme. He studied at Simon Fraser University, the University of British Columbia, and Concordia University before completing his PhD at the University of East Anglia in 2010. He is the author of the novels, The Pillow Book of Lady Kasa (DC Books) Escape from Amsterdam (Granta, St Martin's Press), Speed of Lightness (Penguin), The Macanese Pro-Wrestler's Cookbook (Penguin), and a collection of short stories The Angel Tiger and Other Stories (Epigram). His fiction and non-fiction have appeared in various journals, including Stand, Asia Literary Review, Istanbul Review, Lighthouse, Writing in Education, TEXT, and Matrix. His research and teaching interests comprise a broad range of contemporary fiction, including narratives of photograph and text.

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Desmond Francis Xavier Kon Zhicheng-Mingdé is Senior Lecturer of Creative Writing and Publishing in the Division of English at the School of Humanities, Nanyang Technological University.

Desmond's latest work, Heart Fiat, is a collection of Catholic poems (USA: Wipf & Stock Resource Publications; Singapore: Poetry Festival Singapore)​. Two recent books include a quasi-memoir and guided creative journal, both published by Penguin Random House. Other authored titles span fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and experimental writing. The former journalist has also been editor on various publications and anthologies, several pro bono undertakings for non-profit organisations. He received a BA from the National University of Singapore, and later his MTS from Harvard University and MFA from the University of Notre Dame. In addition to grants from the National Arts Council and Singapore International Foundation, he has enjoyed literary appointments at the Notre Dame Poetry Fellowship, NAC Gardens by the Bay Writing Residency, and NTU-NAC Creative Writing Residency.

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Candice Chung is an author and creative writing lecturer. Her work has appeared in The Guardian, BBC Radio, Feminist Food Journal, The Sydney Morning Herald and more. Her debut memoir, Chinese Parents Don’t Say I Love You, was named a Readings Best of 2025 Nonfiction Book and a Financial Times Best Summer Book of 2025. Candice has taught at Nanyang Technological University, the University of Glasgow and the Scottish BPOC Writers Network, and led guest lectures for the Masters in Creative Writing programme at Cambridge.