NEWS ARCHIVE
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.
December 2020
Yu-Mei’s short story, “The Prisoner,” received a Special Mention in the Pushcart Prize XLV: Best of the Small Presses 2021 Edition. It previously won the Mississippi Review Fiction Prize in 2019. The story is a fictional account of a woman whose husband is detained without trial by the Singapore government under the Internal Security Act for almost ten years.
September 2020
Yu-Mei’s short story, “What They’re Doing Here,” was republished in Best Singaporean Short Stories 1 in the U.K.
July 2019
Yu-Mei received a Tennessee Williams scholarship to attend the Sewanee Writers' Conference. Founded in 1989, the conference accepts about 130 poets, fiction writers and playwrights annually.
February 2019
Yu-Mei’s short story, “The Prisoner,” won the annual Mississippi Review Fiction Prize. The story is a fictional account of a woman whose husband is detained without trial by the Singapore government under the Internal Security Act for almost ten years.
September-October 2017
Yu-Mei received an artist's grant to participate in a residency at the Vermont Studio Center and a fellowship from Ragdale Foundation to participate in a residency at Ragdale.
August-november 2015
Yu-Mei was selected to represent Singapore at the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa.
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