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Anna Tan

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Anna Tan grew up in Malaysia, the country that is not Singapore. She writes fantastical stories and fairy tales, and has short stories included in various anthologies. She helps people publish books at Teaspoon Publishing, which includes yelling at HTML for epub reasons. She is also the editor of NutMag, an annual zine published for and by MYWriters Penang.

Anna has an MA in Creative Writing: The Novel under a Chevening scholarship and is the current President of the Malaysian Writers Society. She is interested in Malay/Nusantara and Chinese legends and folklore in exploring the intersection of language, culture, and faith. She can be found tweeting as @natzers and forgetting to update annatsp.com.

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Book review: The Light Between Us | Elaine Chiew

The Light Between Us The Light Between Us by Elaine Chiew

As books go, I went in to this warily because I tend not to like WW2 (and adjacent) stories. But I also wanted to read this to support a SEA writer! So ok la #cubatry.

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I finally finished this book after a year because I just wanted it off my reading list. lol. (I was going to abandon it at some point.)

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Serena Great to connect with you on GR! Have a good one!


Lisette Brodey Hi Anna:

Thank you for connecting with me on GR. Your book of stories looks wonderful.

Hope you have a great 2013!

All very best wishes,
Lisette


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