is a writer, editor and arts organiser from Singapore. Shortlisted for the Singapore Literature Prize and nominated for the International Dublin Literary Award, he is the author of two novels, a novella and the bestselling short story collection Be Your Own Bae (2024). He co-founded the literary charity Sing Lit Station, where he presently serves as the managing editor of its publishing arm AFTERIMAGE.
His writing has appeared in periodicals and publications such as the Berlin Quarterly, the Sewanee Review, The Straits Times and The Epigram Books Collection of Best New Singapore Short Stories anthology series. His first novel, Kappa Quartet (2016), was selected by The Business Times as one of the best novels of the year, and was described by QLRS as “[breaking] new ground in Singaporean writing… an immensely sympathetic and humane exploration of our existential condition.”
✺ RECENT TITLES
Shantih Shantih Shantih is a heady mix of desire and dauntlessness that revels in its interconnections, pulling close a community that is at once together and apart. Get your copy of this new edition of the novella from the Epigram Bookshop, Kinokuniya or as an e-book.
Daryl Qilin Yam’s long-awaited (and bestselling!!) first collection of short fiction combines magical realism, speculative autobiography and ekphrasis. Get your copy today from the Epigram Bookshop, Kinokuniya, Wormhole or as an e-book.
✺ APPEARANCES
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