Moderators

Denise started Closetful of Books after six years of working with children’s literature. With Closetful of Books, she shares her love for reading through specially-tailored workshops with authors and illustrators and super-duper fun book fairs in local and international schools. Denise also puts her studies in Mass Communications and English Literature to good use by spending all her time reading.

Hwee Goh leads the editorial and strategic communications team at The Media Consultants Singapore. Apart from media and presentation training, her forte is in teaching news-related writing to clients in government, as well as the private, and social services sector. 

Hwee was a MediaCorp scholar classically trained at the Northwestern University Medill School of Journalism. She spent 16 years at Channel NewsAsia, traveling on the political beat with three of Singapore’s Prime Ministers. As a leading journalist and commentator, Hwee wrote Opinion Editorials for TODAY newspaper on topics ranging from politics to her personal life. Hwee curated daily local news coverage and content on CNA as news editor from 2005-2010. 

Hwee is actively engaged on @hweezbooks where she regularly reviews books and is followed for both her own reads and as well as upcoming middle grade/teen reads. Since 2014, Hwee’s Book Share Club (FB/IG) has also made space for promoting SingLit. Hers is a bookish account dedicated to celebrating reading, collecting books, loving book characters and creating content with fellow authors, publishers and book distributors.

Hwee is also the bestselling author of 12 children’s books and is most appreciated for her experience as a journalist, and her insights on reading and writing. She is well known on the Singapore bookish circuit, regularly speaking at schools and moderating international and local authors. Hwee has held book chats with Samantha Shannon, Ruta Sepetys, and with Singapore authors published internationally such as Rachel Heng and June CL Tan. 

Kimberley Chiu is a librarian with Singapore’s National Library Board. She works in collection development, selecting and purchasing books for children and teens. She is deeply interested in role that pleasure and delight play in developing childhood literacy, and in how Singaporean culture affects readers' and librarians' relationships with books and with the library. In her spare time, Kimberley enjoys cooking, petting cats, and playing Stardew Valley. She writes songs, is working on a novel, and tries to read a little every day.  

As sectoral representative for illustrators at PBBY, Liza Flores is one of the leading children’s book illustrators in the Philippines. Her books, The Secret is in the Soil (2012), and Ang Maliit na Kalabaw (2021) have been included in the National Children’s Book Award Best Reads for 2012-2013 and 2020-2021. She is a member of Ang Ilustrador ng Kabataan (Ang INK), the Philippines’ first and only organisation of illustrators for children. She mentors illustrators from different countries through Room to Read, an international nonprofit organisation. Liza is also a graphic designer. She designed Karapat Dapat (2018), which was included in The White Ravens list in 2020.

Dr Sadie-Jane Huff is the Wordsmith Extraordinaire at Superlative She—where she transforms words from mundane to magnificent. The powerhouse speaker, facilitator, and emcee with local and global presence is a fierce advocate for reading and a bonafide Book Fairy. 

With a quill in one hand and all formats of books in the other, Dr Huff is ready to tackle the world by bringing stories to life. Follow her: @theSgTrekkieReads