NEWS ARCHIVE
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).
February 2022
Yu-Mei's short story, "A Reliable Woman," was published in the fiftieth anniversary volume of the Mississippi Review. The story is about a Vietnamese woman who lives in Singapore with her Chinese-Singaporean husband and their two children.
January 2022
Yu-Mei received a grant from the Elizabeth George Foundation to support the writing of her debut novel for one year. The foundation awarded 17 grants to writers in this cycle.
November 5, 2021
Yu-Mei's short story, "A Reliable Woman," was named a finalist in the Sewanee Review's 2021 Fiction Contest, even though it was withdrawn from submission after being accepted for publication elsewhere.
November 2, 2021
The U.S. Embassy in Singapore launched its virtual photography exhibition, "From Sea to Shining Sea: 55 Years of U.S.-Singapore Relations in Photos," to celebrate 55 years of diplomatic relations between the United States and Singapore. Yu-Mei was the lead researcher, curator and writer for the exhibition.
October 2021
Yu-Mei’s short story, “The Prisoner,” was republished in The Epigram Books Collection of Best New Singaporean Short Stories Volume Five. The anthology of seventeen stories was edited by Balli Kaur Jaswal. “The Prisoner” first appeared in the Mississippi Review, where it won the Fiction Prize in 2019, and received a Pushcart Prize Special Mention in 2020.
August 2021
Yu-Mei’s short story, “A Heart the Size of an Armchair,” was republished in issue 54 of Antennae: The Journal of Nature in Visual Culture in the U.K. The story first appeared in the anthology, Here Now There After.
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