Process, Publication, & Perspective: A conversation between Jemimah Wei and Wen-yi Lee

Join authors Jemimah Wei (The Original Daughter, Doubleday Books) and Wen-yi Lee (The Dark We Know, Zando; When They Burned the Butterfly, Tor) in a fireside chat about their writing process and publication trajectories, writing deeply Singaporean novels for international audiences, and navigating differences in genre and expectations along the way.

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ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Jemimah Wei

Jemimah Wei is the author of THE ORIGINAL DAUGHTER. She was a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University and Felipe P. De Alba Fellow at Columbia University, and has received awards and fellowships from Singapore’s National Arts Council, Sewanee Writers’ Conference, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, and more. Her fiction has won the William Van Dyke Short Story Prize and appears in Guernica, Narrative, and Nimrod, amongst others.

Wen-yi Lee

Wen-yi Lee is the author of YA horror The Dark We Know and adult historical fantasy When They Burned the Butterfly. Her writing has appeared in venues like Lightspeed, Uncanny, and Strange Horizons, as well as various anthologies, and has been supported by the National Arts Council and the Octavia E Butler Memorial Scholarship. She likes writing about girls with bite, feral nature, and ghosts.