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About Yu-Mei

Yu-Mei Balasingamchow is the author of the novel, Names Have Been Changed, which will be published by Tiny Reparations Books on June 23, 2026. Her short fiction has received a Pushcart Prize Special Mention, won the Mississippi Review Fiction Prize, and been shortlisted for the Sewanee Review Fiction Contest and the Commonwealth Short Story Prize. She is also the co-author of the nonfiction title, Singapore: A Biography, and the editor of two anthologies of fiction by writers from Singapore. She has an MFA in Creative Writing from Boston University and has received grants and fellowships from the Ucross Foundation, Massachusetts Cultural Council, Elizabeth George Foundation, Sewanee Writers Conference, Ragdale Foundation and Vermont Studio Center. Originally from Singapore, she lives in Boston.