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About Yu-Mei

I'm the author of the novel, Names Have Been Changed, which will be published by Tiny Reparations Books in 2026. 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'm also the co-author of Singapore: A Biography, editor of How We Live Now: Stories of Daily Living, and co-editor of In Transit: An Anthology from Singapore on Airports and Air Travel. I have an MFA in Creative Writing from Boston University, and I've received grants and fellowships in the U.S. from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, Elizabeth George Foundation, Sewanee Writers Conference, Ragdale Foundation and Vermont Studio Center. Originally from Singapore, I now live in Boston.