Yu-Mei Balasingamchow (she/her) is 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. Her short fiction has received a Pushcart Prize Special Mention, won the Mississippi Review Fiction Prize and been shortlisted for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize. She is working on a novel with the support of a 2022 grant from the Elizabeth George Foundation.
Yu-Mei is originally from Singapore and now lives in Boston, which is located on the traditional land of the Massachusett People, past and present. She has an MFA in Creative Writing from Boston University and has received grants and fellowships in the U.S. from the Sewanee Writers Conference, Ragdale Foundation, Vermont Studio Center and GrubStreet, and in Singapore from the National Arts Council and Nanyang Technological University.
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