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Elizabeth Wong grew up in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. She now works as a geologist and writer in London, UK, with a detour to New Haven USA, and Aberdeen UK in the middle. She was a keen reader growing up, frequenting all the libraries that KL and its suburbs had to offer. Now she writes stories of Malaysia and also of this large world we live in — deserts, seas, rocks. She is interested in literary fiction and speculative fiction/ science fiction/ fantasy, and that lovely intersection in the middle. She also reads pop psychology and personal finance non-fiction for her "easy reads".

Elizabeth has degrees in geology and English from Yale University, USA, and in petroleum geoscience from Imperial College London, UK. She has won prizes for her wr ...more

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We Could Not See The Stars

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Inheritocracy: It’s Time to Talk About the Bank of Mum and Dad

by Eliza Filby

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The Mermaid of Black Conch

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Origins: How The Earth Made Us

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