NEWS ARCHIVE
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 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.
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short story, "A Reliable Woman," was named a finalist in the Sewanee Review's 2021 Fiction Contest, even though it was withdrawn from submission after being accepted for publication elsewhere.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.
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