Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan is the New York — based author of A Tiger in the Kitchen: A Memoir of Food and Family. A native of Singapore, she is working on her second book, a novel. A former staff writer at the Wall Street Journal, her work has also appeared in the New York Times and the Washington Post, among other publications. She has been an artist in residence at Yaddo and the Djerassi Resident Artists Program.
Donald Tee Quee Ho (a.k.a. Simon Tay) is a writer who occupies roles in politics and academia. He has published five books of creative writing. His novel City of Small Blessings won the Singapore Literature Prize in 2010; Stand Alone (1991) was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize. He has been an International Writing Fellow at University of Iowa. One international magazine called him “Singapore’s answer to Haruki Murakami.”
Nury Vittachi is the author of more than three dozen books, spent part of his childhood in Singapore, and visits regularly from his current home in Hong Kong. He is the founding editor of the region’s top literary journal, the Asia Literary Review, and chairman of Asia Pacific Writers, the region’s largest author association. His works have been released by major publishers in Asia, the US, the UK, Europe, and Australia.
Ovidia Yu has written over thirty plays, novels, and short stories. Her latest book is Aunty Lee’s Delights, a mystery set in Singapore where she lives with two dogs, two turtles, a tank full of fish, and too many plants. She is a Fulbright alumnus of the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa, recipient of the Young Artist Award for Literature, the Singapore Youth Award, and an Edinburgh Fringe First Award.
Editor’s Acknowledgments
Deepest gratitude to the terrific authors who contributed to this anthology as well as the National Arts Council of Singapore. Thanks, too, to the Studios of Key West, which provided a haven for editing at a crucial time, Johnny Temple and his lovely team at Akashic, S.J. Rozan for getting this ball rolling, Mike Hale, Jonathan Santlofer, Gordon Dahlquist, Jesse Pesta, and my agent, the inimitable Jin Auh with the Wylie Agency.