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Yu-Mei Balasingamchow

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Yu-Mei Balasingamchow is the author of the novel, Names Have Been Changed, which will be published on June 23, 2026 by Tiny Reparations Books. Her short fiction has received a Pushcart Prize Special Mention, won the Mississippi Review Fiction Prize, and been shortlisted for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize.

Yu-Mei is also the co-author of Singapore: A Biography, editor of How We Live Now: Stories of Daily Living, and co-editor of In Transit: An Anthology from Singapore on Airports and Air Travel. She has an MFA in Creative Writing from Boston University. Her writing has been supported by Ucross Foundation, Massachusetts Cultural Council, Elizabeth George Foundation, Sewanee Writers Conference, Ragdale Foundation and Vermont Studio Center, ...more

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	Lonely Planet Vietnam by Lonely Planet, Nick Ray, Yu-Mei Balasingamchow (Goodreads Author) 4.03 avg rating — 887 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 (Goodreads Author) 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 (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Yeow Kai Chai (Contributor) 3.63 avg rating — 168 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) 3.86 avg rating — 138 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 3.97 avg rating — 63 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 (Goodreads Author) (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 (Goodreads Author) (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 (Goodreads Author), 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 — expected publication 2026 — 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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