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January 1, 2025

Yu-Mei joined Gaudy Boy as editor. She will read submissions, work with writers to develop their manuscripts, and lead titles through production to publication. Gaudy Boy is the imprint of the New York City-based literary non-profit Singapore Unbound, and brings poetry, fiction, and literary non-fiction by authors of Asian heritage to the attention of an American audience.

December 18, 2024

Yu-Mei was one of nine fiction writers selected for Poets & Writers’ Get the Word Out publicity incubator, which helps early-career authors learn to “do” publicity and maximize the exposure of their forthcoming books. Her cohort will be mentored by book publicist Jennifer Huang.

november 17, 2024

Yu-Mei spoke on the panel, “from Eden to Metropolis” at the Singapore Writers Festival, in conversation with Colombian novelist Pilar Quintana.

November 13, 2024

Yu-Mei was the featured speaker to the Tapestry Project’s Writers’ Circle in Singapore. The Tapestry Project is a non-profit organization that champions mental health education and empowerment through first-person stories and narrative programmes.

October 1, 2024

Yu-Mei’s debut novel, Names Have Been Changed, will be published by Tiny Reparations Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House, in 2026. The novel follows Ophir—not her real name—as she reveals the story of her last twelve years as a fugitive on the run around the world (from Singapore to Tokyo, London, Los Angeles, and beyond), in a confessional broadcast that entrances global fans, even as she risks her anonymity and hard-won freedom.

july 2024

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

November 10, 2023

Yu-Mei’s essay, “Postcard from Boston: Potters Once Known,” was published in Jom, a weekly magazine about Singapore. The essay considers the exhibition, “Hear Me Now: The Black Potters of Old Edgefield, South Carolina,” which was held at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston from March 4 to July 9, 2023, and ruminates on the power of imagination, voice and gesture.

September 30, 2023

Yu-Mei read at Singapore Unbound’s Second Saturdays Reading Series in its tenth season. The event was held at FourOneOne in Brooklyn. Yu-Mei read excerpts of her novel manuscript, which was written with the support of a grant from the Elizabeth George Foundation.

february 15, 2023

Yu-Mei received a Cultural Sector Recovery grant from Mass Cultural Council to support her work and professional growth as a writer.

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