Aditi Shivaramakrishnan is a Singapore-based editor, writer, and speech-to-text interpreter.
She has over a decade of editorial and project management experience across publishing, the arts and tech, having
✿ conducted qualitative research
✿ edited art books, comics, and young adult fiction titles
✿ developed educational programmes
✿ managed marketing and communications
✿ created content
✿ provided speech-to-text interpretation services and
✿ moderated events
for organisations including:
AWARE, Difference Engine, Epigram Books, Esplanade, Equal Dreams, Facebook, the National Arts Council, National Gallery Singapore, Objectifs Centre for Photography and Film, the Singapore International Film Festival, and the Singapore Writers Festival.
Her writing has been published in The Aerogram, ArtsEquator, Esplanade Offstage, gal-dem, Jom, The New Paper, Portside Review, SEASONINGS Magazine, and SINdie as well as in The Hour Before She Sleeps by Mindy Tan and the Singapore Noodles Planner 2021.
RESUME
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2023—Present Senior Editor, Difference Engine, Singapore
2021—Present Speech-to-Text-Interpreter, Equal Dreams, Singapore
2022—2023 Manager, Content Publishing, National Gallery Singapore
2019—2022 Manager, Objectifs Centre for Photography and Film, Singapore
2016—2019 Assistant Manager, Objectifs Centre for Photography and Film, Singapore
2015—2016 Content Marketing Manager, Gaming, Facebook, Singapore
2015 Research Assistant, National Gallery Singapore
2014—2015 Gallery Sitter, NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore
2012—2014 Editorial Assistant, Epigram Books, Singapore
2008 Intern Journalist, The New Paper, Singapore Press Holdings
EDUCATION
2014—2015 Master of Science in Information Studies, Wee Kim Wee School of Communications and Information, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
2011 Study Abroad Semester, King’s College London, United Kingdom
2008—2012 Bachelor of Arts in English, Wesleyan University, USA
EDITORIAL PROJECTS (SELECTED)
2023 Co-Editor, Amazing Ash & Superhero Ah Ma: End of an Era (Book 3) by Melanie Lee & Arif Rafhan, Difference Engine
2023 Writer, Festival Guide, 34th Singapore International Film Festival
2023 Co-Editor, Magical Sweet Gula by Johanes Park & Jessica Leman, Difference Engine
2023 Project Editor, Dance in the Destruction Dance, Singapore Art Museum
2022 Project Editor, Living Pictures: Photography in Southeast Asia, National Gallery Singapore
2022 Writer, Festival Guide, 33rd Singapore International Film Festival
2021 Writer, Festival Guide, 32nd Singapore International Film Festival
2021 Editor, Kampung Jurong Issue 4: Lost & Found produced by Ong Yuqi & Pok Yue Weng
2021 Editor, Kampung Jurong Issue 3: Coming of Age produced by Ong Yuqi & Pok Yue Weng
2021 Co-Editor, The Makers Club: Starting Up by Reimena Yee & Tintin Pantoja, Difference Engine
2020 Editor, The Makers Club: Game On! by Reimena Yee & Tintin Pantoja, Difference Engine
2019 Editor, Kampung Jurong Issue 1 produced by Ong Yuqi & Pok Yue Weng
2015 Editor, The Travel Diary of Amos Lee 3: Seoul Searching by Adeline Foo & Stephanie Wong, Epigram Books
2015 Project Manager, The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye by Sonny Liew, Epigram Books
2014 Editor, Last Train from Tanjong Pagar by Koh Hong Teng, Epigram Books
2014 Editor, Tiananmen: 25th Anniversary Edition by Morgan Chua, Epigram Books
2014 Editor, The Travel Diary of Amos Lee 2: Monkeying in Malaysia! by Adeline Foo & Stephanie Wong, Epigram Books
2014 Editor, The Travel Diary of Amos Lee 1: Lost in Taipei! by Adeline Foo & Stephanie Wong, Epigram Books
2014 Editor, Our Neighbourhoods: We Love Little India by Urban Sketchers Singapore, Epigram Books
2014 Editor, Our Neighbourhoods: We Love Katong by Urban Sketchers Singapore, Epigram Books
2014 Editor, Girl Overboard!: A Rose Among the Thorns (Book 1) by Sheri Tan & Fernando Hierro, Epigram Books
2013 Editor, Myth of the Stone: 20th Anniversary Edition by Gwee Li Sui, Epigram Books
2013 Editor, Our Neighbourhoods: We Love Queenstown by Urban Sketchers Singapore, Epigram Books
PUBLISHED WRITING (SELECTED)
2023 Psychobitch: Anya’s Lonely Journey, Jom
2023 Love, Loss and Liminality: (Im)migrant Journeys, Asian Film Archive Despatches
2023 Staging Unseen Singapore Stories, Esplanade Offstage
2023 Beyond Bindis & Binaries: Dress-Up Diaries of a Diaspora Daughter, MANIFESTO (Fashion Revolution Week 2023)
2022 In Memoriam: Singapore, ArtsEquator
2022 Storytelling and Mental Wellness, ArtsEquator
2022 Unavu, Unarvu (Food, Feeling), SEASONINGS #04_The National Day Edition
2022 Chapter 1/X: நல்வரவு (Welcome), Portside Review
2022 [Interview] Spectrum of Nature in SIFA 2022, ArtsEquator
2021 Quiz: What’s Your Guilty Pleasure?, ArtsEquator
2021 [Interview] Alternative Lessons for Women: Sonia Kwek and Tan Weiying on sex, desire and the erotic, ArtsEquator
2020 In a Material World: IMPART Collectors’ Show 2020 & Justice for All, ArtsEquator
2018 The Fulcrum: Reflections on The Hour Before She Sleeps by Mindy Tan, Exactly Foundation
2018 [Review] ITI’s “Extremities”: Routes for Escape and Redemption, ArtsEquator
2017 [Review] Rosy dreams rosy dreams: On “Lipstick Under My Burkha”, gal-dem
PRESENTATIONS, READINGS, TALKS & WORKSHOPS
2024, Selection Panel, Singapore Shorts ‘24, Asian Film Archive
2023 Co-Presenter (with Joel Tan), Unexpected Pairings #7: I’ll Make a Disney Princess Out of You, Singapore Writers Festival
2023 Presenter, The SEAson for Comics, Illustration Arts Festival 2023 (via Difference Engine)
2023 Co-Facilitator (with David Liew), Pioneer Superheroes: Indian Superheroes Who Made Singapore Awesome, Indian Heritage Centre (via Difference Engine)
2023 Judge, Big Young Creators (Ages 10 to 12) Category, Singapore Dreaming: A Comics Competition for Young Creators, Yumcha Studios (via Difference Engine)
2023 Co-Presenter (with Shreya Davies), Introduction to Manuscript Editing, Singapore Book Publishers Association Internship Programme
2022 Panelist, Anthology of Modern Anxiety, Singapore Writers Festival (Press)
2021 Moderator, Rehana Maryam Noor Q&A, dir. Abdullah Mohammad Saad, 31st Singapore International Film Festival
2021 Panelist, Slumber Party: Ain’t Gonna Sleep Tonight, Singapore Writers Festival
2021 Moderator, Detectives and Agents on Tour!, Singapore Writers Festival
2020 Panelist, Singaporean Spotlight: Southeast Asian Representation in Comics, Philippine International Comics Online Festival
2020 Reader, NEW ENCOUNTERS / NEW WORKS ft. Larry Ypil, Sing Lit Station, Singapore
2018 Moderator, Post-Screening Q&A for Three Adventures of Brooke, dir. Yuan Qing, 29th Singapore International Film Festival
2017 Moderator, Post-Screening Q&A for hUSh, dir. Kan Lume & Djenar Maesa Ayu, 28th Singapore International Film Festival
PARTICIPANT
2020 Reading Group: How My Brother Leon Brought Home a Wife and other beautiful stories with potentially problematic titles from Philippine Lit by Lawrence Lacambra Ypil, Sing Lit Station
2020 Think Tank: New Curriculum for Old Questions, NUS Centre for the Arts, Singapore
AWARDS AND HONOURS
2014—2015 HASTAC Scholars Program
2010 Wesleyan Writers Conference International Student Scholarship
2008—2012 Wesleyan Freeman Asian Scholarship
PRESS
2022 Singapore Writers Festival: ‘You’ve got to do the hard work’: Panellists on minority representation, The Straits Times
2018 Interview: Aditi Shivaramakrishnan, Difference Engine blog (online)
CONTINUING EDUCATION / TRAINING AND CERTIFICATES
2022 Essentials of Teaching and Learning (for the National Arts Council), National Institute of Education, Singapore
2021 Speech-to-Text Interpreting (STTI) Training, Equal Dreams
2021 Sexual Assault First Responder Training, AWARE Singapore
2020 Introduction to Reviewing Dance, ArtsEquator
2020 Art & Ideas: Teaching with Themes, The Museum of Modern Art, Coursera
2020 Seeing through Photographs, The Museum of Modern Art, Coursera
LANGUAGES (Reading, Writing, Spoken)
English, Tamil (Native - R, W, S)
French (Beginner - R, W, S)