Kirsten Han

Kirsten Han is Editor-in-Chief of Mekong Review, a quarterly Asian literary magazine, and runs We, The Citizens, a newsletter covering Singapore from a rights-based perspective. She is the author of The Singapore I Recognise: Essays on Home, Community, and Hope, published by Ethos Books, with a Chinese translation by SpringHill Publishing. In 2018, she received an Honourable Mention for the World Justice Project's Anthony Lewis Prize, and in 2019 won a Human Rights Press Award for her commentaries on "fake news" and free expression in Singapore. In 2024, she won the Portside Review Human Rights Essay Prize for Singapore Will Always Be At War, later published by Epigram Books. Kirsten is a member of the Transformative Justice Collective, campaigning to end the death penalty and Singapore's war on drugs, and sits on the executive committee of the Anti-Death Penalty Asia Network (ADPAN).

Kirsten Han adalah Pemimpin Redaksi Mekong Review, majalah sastra Asia terbitan triwulanan, dan mengelola We, The Citizens, sebuah buletin yang meliput Singapura dari perspektif berbasis hak asasi. Ia adalah penulis buku The Singapore I Recognise: Essays on Home, Community, and Hope, yang diterbitkan oleh Ethos Books, dengan terjemahan bahasa Mandarin oleh SpringHill Publishing. Pada 2018, ia menerima Honourable Mention untuk World Justice Project's Anthony Lewis Prize, dan pada 2019 memenangkan Human Rights Press Award atas tulisan-tulisan komentarnya tentang "berita palsu" dan kebebasan berekspresi di Singapura. Pada 2024, ia memenangkan Portside Review Human Rights Essay Prize untuk esainya Singapore Will Always Be At War, yang kemudian diterbitkan oleh Epigram Books. Kirsten adalah anggota Transformative Justice Collective, yang memperjuangkan penghapusan hukuman mati dan perang Singapura terhadap narkoba, serta menjabat di komite eksekutif Anti-Death Penalty Asia Network (ADPAN).