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Yu-Mei Balasingamchow
Instructor Consultant BWOC
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About Yu-Mei
I am the co-author of Singapore: A Biography and co-editor of In Transit: An Anthology from Singapore on Airports and Air Travel. My 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. I have an MFA in Creative Writing from Boston University and I'm completing my first novel with the support of grants from the Elizabeth George Foundation and Mass Cultural Council. I'm represented by Lucy Carson, The Friedrich Agency. Originally from Singapore, I now live in Boston.Interests
- Applying for Awards and Fellowships
- Copyediting
- Cultural Consulting
- Essay
- Novel
- Preparing the MFA Application
- Proofreading
- Short Fiction