Yolanda Yu Miaomiao | Singapore

Yolanda Yu Miaomiao was born in north eastern China and has been living in Singapore since 1998. She has received multiple literature awards, including Singapore Tertiary Chinese Literature Award, Golden Point Award in both poetry and Short Stories categories.

Yolanda published collection of short stories "Neighbour's Luck" in November 2018. Her collection of poems was exhibited in multiple joint photography exhibitions with Shivaji Das, her husband. She also co-edited a documentary book on Chinese students in Singapore, published by Candid Publishing. Her fairy tale “A Giant’s three wishes” has been featured in Singapore Writers’ Festival 2015. Her poems, travel log and short stories are collected in anthologies “From Walden to Woodlands”, "Call and Response", magazines & newspapers such as LianHeZaoBao and Bukit Timah Literature magazine in Singapore, New York Times Travel Magazine, Zuopin Magazine and Guangxi Literature Magazine in China.

Upcoming Events

Asia Pacific Writers and Translators Conference

7th December: Panel Discussion: China, Hong Kong, Macau–literary webs between worlds -

Join longterm Macau resident, Kevin Maher, Chinese poet and translator Yolanda Yu, alongside biographer John Holliday as well as scholar of Chinese/India relations, Anurag Viswanath in discussion with Louisa Lim.

6th December: Panel Discussion: On Writing Habits

Writers Nick Earls, Julia Prendergast and poet Yolanda Yu in discussion with editor and writing facilitator Shelley Kenigsberg.

6th December: Book Launches

Join us for the launch of Jena Woodhouse's Green Dance, Ravi Shankar's Many Uses of Mint, Yolanda Yu's Neighbour's Luck and Philip Edmond's The Soapbox.

Global Migrant Festival

15th December 11am @National Gallery - Voices of Chinese Domestic Migrants
Join award-winning Chinese poet and domestic migrant worker Zheng Xiaoqiong for an hour where she will share some of her most insightful works from over 10 of her poetry collections that have been translated into seven languages across the world, and catch her wide-ranging interview where she will discuss her experiences as a domestic migrant in China and how that informed her writing.

Featuring: Zheng Xiaoqiong (China); Moderator: Yolanda Miaomiao Yu