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October 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.

February 9, 2023

Yu-Mei was the featured speaker at the event, “Building a Life around Writing,” organized by Pagesetters Services in Singapore. This was the first event in Pagesetters’ Gotong Royong series, a new initiative to bring writing and reading communities together to initiate change.

February 4, 2023

Yu-Mei was the featured speaker at the event, “Writing and Publishing in the U.S.,” organized by the Asia Creative Writing Programme at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

November 17, 2022

Yu-Mei's short story, "A Reliable Woman," was nominated by the Mississippi Review for the Pushcart Prize. Each literary magazine may nominate only six published works each year. “A Reliable Woman” was published in the fiftieth anniversary volume of the Review in February 202. The story is about a Vietnamese woman who lives in Singapore with her Chinese-Singaporean husband and their two children.

october 8, 2022

Yu-Mei spoke on the panel, “Archipelagic Constellations,” at the Singapore Literature Festival in New York, organized by Singapore Unbound (video here). She was also the moderator for the festival’s closing address, “Free Speech in an Unequal World,” by Cherian George, professor of media studies at Hong Kong Baptist University (video here).

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