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Wena Poon
When growing up in Singapore, Wena Poon was addicted to Star Wars and Batman. She began writing action adventure novels when she was in Secondary One. She went to Nanyang Girls, Raffles Girls, and Raffles Junior College. She is the author of the short story collections Lions In Winter and The Proper Care of Foxes, the science fiction series The Biophilia Omnibus, and the Spanish bullfighting adventure novel Alex y Robert, which was serialized and broadcast worldwide by the BBC as a Book At Bedtime. Her fiction and poetry have won or been nominated for numerous literary prizes in the UK, Singapore, and Malaysia. Her website is www.wenapoon.com.
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O Thiam Chin
O Thiam Chin's short stories have appeared in many literary anthologies and journals, including Asia Literary Review, Quarterly Literary Review Singapore, Cha: An Asian Literary Journal, Kyoto Journal, Asiatic and Asia Writes. He is the author of three collections of short stories, Free-Falling Man (2006), Never Been Better (2009), longlisted for the Frank O' Connor Short Story Award and nominated as one of the best 10 fiction books in the Popular-The Star Readers' Choice Awards in 2010, and Under The Sun (2010). He was an honorary fellow of the Iowa International Writing Program in 2010. Having just completed his fourth story collection, The Rest Of Your Life And Everything That Comes With It, he is currently working on his first novel.
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