Malachi Edwin Vethamani is poet, fictionist, editor, critic, bibliographer and emeritus professor at University of Nottingham. He has five collections of poems and two collections of short stories. Ismail S. Talib in ‘The Journal of Commonwealth Literature’(2023) stated that in 2022 ‘the most prominent figure in Malaysian poetry was Malachi Edwin Vethamani, who is, without doubt, one of the leading English-language poets in Malaysia.’ The Malaysian Publishers Association awarded his edited volume Malchin Testament: Malaysian Poems the National Book Award 2020 for the English Language category. He is Founding Editor of Men Matters Online Journal.