Max Pasakorn, Ng Ziqin and I have been working on putting together Perks of Being Dumped: A local anthology of heartbreak writing since the Singlit Station cocktail party in 2023, and now it is out and in stores! Exactly a year later we had a bespoke cocktail, “Before Heartbreak” made Read more…
This is the first year I’ll be featuring at Perth Poetry Festival, and I’m so excited to share my events! 13 August 2024: Poetry Mosaic 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM, Centre for Stories I’ve been privileged to be part of the Ink and Echo group that has met at the Read more…
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2022 was full of good books for me. It was the year I got really into John Le Carre, as befits our increasingly geopolitically complicated world. I read The Looking-Glass War, Our Game, The Night Manager, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, The Constant Gardener and Silverview all in the same year, Read more…
I will be participating in the panel Anthology of Modern Anxiety on the 6th Nov 2022, Sunday, 7.30pm to 8.30pm (SGT) at The Arts House, Chamber Featuring: Jon Gresham, Aditi Shivaramakrishnan, Jinny Koh, Judith Huang (virtual) Moderator: Khoo Sim Eng. It should be an interesting conversation about technology and our Read more…
My short story, Dark Chocolate, about a grandmother having a 3D avatar made of herself, is now up on QLRS and can be read here. This was a fun one to write, inspired by an actual technology that will probably be in museums in the near future. Enjoy!
I’ll be representing Chinese SFF translators of the seminal volume The Way Spring Arrives at the International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, a virtual conference this weekend, October 7-9 2022. I have a panel discussing translating Chinese Science Fiction! The whole program can be seen here. Here’s the Read more…
So, my translation of Roesin by Wu Guan won the short form Rosetta Award for SFF translation! I was so honored to win this award because this was my first introduction to translating SFF from Chinese, and it was also a very challenging piece to translate. The Rosetta Awards are Read more…
The Tor anthology of Chinese women and nonbinary science fiction and fantasy, The Way Spring Arrives, is out now! I have a piece of translation in it, The Woman Carrying a Corpse, by Chi Hui! This was a very mythological piece, with great archetypal resonance and I had a good Read more…
So the amazing, humble and talented Anthony Tao was the guest on Rattlecast #83. The man was working at Beijing Bookworm (a fabulous bilingual bookshop in Sanlitun) before it got shut down and helping to run the legendary literary festival there. Now, he’s still in Beijing and has just taken Read more…