Writer, plant admirer, bookseller (she/her). Singaporean living in Boston. Mastodon: https://xitter.cf/t.co/ku9OpSRDWl
Boston, MA
Joined May 2007
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Decolonizing #Thanksgiving bioneers.org/decolonizing-th…
Things I do for my novel that you otherwise wouldn’t catch me doing instagram.com/p/ClUriNCOrZq/…
Dipping my toes into Mastodon. So far I have written an intro post and told you what I’m having for dinner. Just like the old days! universeodon.com/@bubblevici…
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Gobsmacked. Thank you @MissReviewMag for the love! 🫶🏽 And congrats to my fellow nominees!
congratulations to our 2022 pushcart nominees! 🎊 @LA_Johnson_ @natalieshapero @bubblevicious @alisonwpowell @emilypittinos
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More than 15 years ago, I wrote a short blog post about "Wacko the ducks," a pet phrase of Singapore's former Chief Minister David Marshall, which I stumbled across while listening to his oral history recordings at the National Archives of Singapore blog.toomanythoughts.org/200…
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When you realise that the magnificent dramatic set piece at the midpoint of your novel draft has to be entirely rewritten because reasons. #amwriting
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TY @SGUnbound1 for the video of my panel at the Singapore Literature Festival in New York: "Archipelagic Constellations", abt writing the history of South Asian migration to Guyana, Trinidad & Singapore, with the inspiring Gaiutra Bahadur & @KrystalASital youtube.com/watch?v=8MUgxN23…
Recent reads on my New York trip + upcoming event in Boston with @JeremyTiang: instagram.com/p/CjzITIQu3Km/
I’ll be in conversation with @JeremyTiang to celebrate the launch of his latest translation, “Cocoon” by Zhang Yueran, at @papercutsjp in Boston, Tuesday, October 18, 6 pm.
Follow-up conversations from my panel at the Singapore Literature Festival in New York last weekend have had me dusting off and rereading essays I wrote several years ago:
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1. “My Grandmother’s Story”, first published in 2014, which I magically remembered in the midst of answering a question on the panel. biblioasia.nlb.gov.sg/vol-12…
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Thank you 🥰 to everyone who came out yesterday for the Singapore Literature Festival in New York, organised by @SGUnbound1! instagram.com/p/CjgmeL0uY7m/
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I’ll be participating in 2 events at the Singapore Literature Festival in New York next week! Thanks to @SGUnbound1 for inviting me. Full details here instagram.com/p/CjMm6O8ORV5/
When you're revising your first draft, and big things you wrote in the final chapter two weeks ago line up almost perfectly with tiny details in the first chapter from 18 months ago, and there's no way you could have known at the time WUT #amwriting
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#amreading and enjoying “Odysseus Abroad” by Amit Chaudhuri (2014) instagram.com/p/Ci8_TqHuWPq/