Essays
In a Singapore full of crazy rich foreigners, inequality is becoming ingrained
It’s 2018, and Kevin Kwan’s Austenesque novel Crazy Rich Asians is now a summer movie blockbuster, launching a thousand op-eds about representation. But the book is not about race, it is about the impenetrability of Read more…
Poetry
Second Letter to Mama
Second Letter to Mama Dear Mama, you are standing by the stove and I am standing on the chair by the stove as the rice rises warmly in the clay pot the soy sauce stains Read more…
Blog
Two months after publication…
OK, so a lot has happened since I last blogged here. I’ve been pretty active generating Sofia-related content on my Facebook Page: www.facebook.com/judithsyhuang, so if you want to find out more about the book and Read more…
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Listen to my 938Now Radio Interview about Sofia and the Utopia Machine!
So I went live on 93.8FM today with Eugene on the Scene to talk about my novel! I even read an excerpt, when Sofia creates the new universe in the Utopia Machine. You can check Read more…
Blog
First look at Sofia and the Utopia Machine paperbacks!
I was so excited to receive this photo from Epigram yesterday! My books are back from the printers and I’ll be seeing them in person very very soon! Thanks to everyone who has been on Read more…
Blog
Creative affirmations and the artist’s way
Today I took a special day off to go to Fremantle, the wonderful port city near Perth, where I spent a soul-nourishing day reading the book The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron and browsing the Read more…
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Join over 100 pre-orders for Sofia & The Utopia Machine!
I received news from my publisher, Epigram, today that Sofia and The Utopia Machine has received over a hundred pre-orders! I am pleasantly surprised and also gratified that so many people are interested enough in Read more…
Poetry
Three poems about mental health published in COG
Three of my poems on the theme of mental health and the goodness of support from friends and family during trying times of mental illness were published in COG, the Cogswell College publication, here. Check Read more…
Poetry
My translations of Xiao Shui’s poetry on LA Review of Books!
I had a lot of fun translating Chinese poet Xiao Shui’s wonderful little vignettes – they are a kind of short prosepoem, almost flash fiction like. And they just got picked up by the Los Read more…