Zakariya AMATAYA ซะการีย์ยา อมตยา (poet, editor, translator; Thailand) won the 2010 S.E.A. Write Award for his first poetry collection, No Women in Poetry. He followed with a second collection, หากภายในเราลึกราวมหาสมุทร [But in Us It Is Deep as the Sea], in 2013. After 25 years in Bangkok and India, Amataya returned home to Narathiwat in 2016 to write poems and stories about the southern Thai borderlands and to cofound a journal called The Melayu Review. His third poetry collection, due out in 2024, is called Posthumous Poems from Paradise. His participation was made possible by the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs at the U.S. Department of State.