Audrey Chin

Audrey Chin is a South East Asian writer whose work explores the spaces where gender, faith and culture intersect. Her essays, short stories, novels and contemplative verses have been published in Singapore, India, the UK and the US.

She has been shortlisted thrice for the Singapore Literature Prize and is a 2017 Fellow of the International Writing Program in Iowa

In her latest novel, The Ash House, a clairvoyant nun must uncover the secrets of an enigmatic pip-playing spirit to save a haunted merchant family and their century-old ancestral home.

The anthology Nine Cuts is a collection of short stories about the many facets of love, from rare beginnings to well done maturity and then spoilt endings.

When Heart Meets Spirit is a collection of contemplative verse.

As the Heart Bones Break, follows an Orange County Viet-Cong spy's quest to find peace and a home for his conflicted heart.

Mid-Autumn Musings is a set of reflections on the moon in a quintessentially East Asian fashion, but from a 21st century woman's perspective.

Singapore Women Re-Presented is a social history of Singapore told from the feminine perspective.

Learning to Fly, her debut novel shortlisted for the 2000 Singapore Literature Prize,was set in post-colonial Singapore and the rainforests of South East Asia.

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