GENERAL EDITORS Shirley Chew Stuart Murray EDITORIAL BOARD Fiona Becket Sam Durrant Lynette Hunter John McLeod Neil Murphy Brendon Nicholls Jane Plastow Wai-chew Sim ADVISORY BOARD Martin Banham Catherine Batt Elleke Boehmer Susan Burns Denise deCaires Narain Romesh Gunesekera Githa Hariharan Salima Hashmi Koh Tai Ann Bénédicte Ledent Russell McDougall Niyi Osundare Nima Poovaya-Smith David Richards Bede Scott Aritha van Herk Mark Williams PRODUCTION Glenda Pattenden EDITORIAL ASSISTANT Emily Kate Timms VOLUME 18 NUMBER 1 2018 Moving Worlds A JOURNAL OF TRANSCULTURAL WRITINGS Women Write Now READING THE CONTEMPORARY