works at the intersection of activism and writing, having worked with several social change NGOs in Malaysia. As a writer, Lily won the Mercedes-Benz Creative Excellence award in 2017 for her short play in Short+Sweet, and was featured as an Emerging Writer in the 2018 George Town Literary Festival. Her works can be found in anthologies by Haymarket Press, Fixi, and Gerakbudaya.
Where are the Malays?: Locating the Singaporean Malay in Singa-Pura-Pura
Singa-Pura-Pura boasts an eclectic collection of short speculative fiction from a minority ethnic group in Singapore, exploring worlds where robots are therapists, prayers are read from preloaded cards, and humans are migrating to Mars. Edited by Nazry Bahrawi, the stories consider various spiritual, social, and economic themes, with many leaving me with questions about where we […]
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