Yu-Mei Balasingamchow (she/her) is the author of the novel, Names Have Been Changed, which will be published in 2026 by Tiny Reparations Books, an imprint of Penguin Books. 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 and Sewanee Review Fiction Contest. 

Yu-Mei is 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. She has an MFA in Creative Writing from Boston University and has 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, and in Singapore from the National Arts Council and Nanyang Technological University. Originally from Singapore, she now lives in Boston. She is editor at Gaudy Boy, an independent press that brings literary works by authors of Asian heritage to an American audience, and teaches at GrubStreet, where she manages its mentorship program.

Yu-Mei is represented by Lucy Carson, The Friedrich Agency.