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)

2024 Writer, Festival Guide, 35th Singapore International Film Festival

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 Moderator (with Shreya Davies, CT Lim, Chong Lingying), Uncut Gems: The Editors’ Toolbox for Comics, Singapore Writers Festival

2024 Co-Presenter (with Shreya Davies and Charlene Shepherdson), SEAworthy: Writing Stories from a Southeast Asian Core, ACWP Practitioners Conference (via Difference Engine)

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 (via Difference Engine)

2022 Panelist, Anthology of Modern Anxiety, Singapore Writers Festival (Press)

2021 Moderator, Rehana Maryam Noor Q&A, dir. Abdullah Mohammad Saad, 32nd 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 

2024 Performance-making for Neurodiverse Audiences, Republic Polytechnic, Singapore

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)

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