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Yu-Mei Balasingamchow is the author of a novel, Names Have Been Changed (2026), co-author of a nonfiction book, Singapore: A Biography (2009, with Mark R. Frost), and co-editor of a literary collection, In Transit: An Anthology from Singapore on Airports and Air Travel (2016, with Zhang Ruihe). Her short fiction has been shortlisted for the 2014 Commonwealth Short Story Prize, selected for the Best New Singaporean Short Stories anthology series, and received a Pushcart Prize special mention.

She was born in Singapore and is currently based in Boston, where she worked as a bookseller at Papercuts Bookshop and now teaches writing workshops at GrubStreet. She was a 2015 honorary fellow in writing at the International Writing Program at the Uni ...more

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Singapore wonders: can you dissent, and discuss dissent, while still loving your nation?

As with my post on the (all-too-recent!) brownface saga, this is a summary of links on the Singapore government- and establishment-led inaccurate characterising of dissent as traitorous behaviour, and thus of activists, artists and independent journalists and scholars who express dissent as traitors to Singapore. If I've missed anything meaty, please let me know. The information here was last upda Read more of this blog post »

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	Lonely Planet Vietnam by Lonely Planet, Nick Ray, Yu-Mei Balasingamchow 4.03 avg rating — 885 ratings — published 1991 — 61 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Singapore: A Biography by Mark R. Frost, Yu-Mei Balasingamchow 4.14 avg rating — 180 ratings — published 2009 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Balik Kampung by Verena Tay (Editor), Yu-Mei Balasingamchow (Contributor), Yeow Kai Chai (Contributor) 3.62 avg rating — 167 ratings — published 2012 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	From the Belly of the Cat by Stephanie Ye (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Paul Tan (Contributor), Paul Ruta (Contributor) 3.85 avg rating — 137 ratings — published 2013 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	How We Live Now: Stories of Daily Living 3.95 avg rating — 62 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Best New Singaporean Short Stories: Volume One by Jason Erik Lundberg (Goodreads Author) (Series Editor), Ann Ang (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Yu-Mei Balasingamchow (Contributor) 3.35 avg rating — 68 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	In Transit: An Anthology from Singapore on Airports and Air Travel by Yu-Mei Balasingamchow (Editor), Ruihe Zhang (Editor), Joshua Ip (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.46 avg rating — 50 ratings — published 2016	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Grandmother: Let’s Tell This Story Properly Short Story Singles by Yu-Mei Balasingamchow, Ellah Wakatama Allfrey (Editor) liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2015	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sentosa Cove Island Modern 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Names Have Been Changed 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“She remembered the way the damp, coarse sand had clumped to her legs and hands, and burrowed beneath her nails and into the folds of her clothes, and she had wondered why the British children in her storybooks were always excited about going to the beach—just as now she wondered why the light from the lighthouse seemed to be coming from the landward side of the expressway. “I thought a lighthouse is out at sea.”
― Yu-Mei Balasingamchow, Best New Singaporean Short Stories: Volume One

tags: epigram-books, fiction, lighthouse, literature, short-stories, singapore

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