Yolanda Yu is a multi-time winner of the Golden Point Award. Her book Neighbor’s Luck, a collection of short stories was shortlisted for the Singapore Literature Award 2020. Yolanda’s work has been featured on LianHeZaoBao, Cha Journal, New York Times Travel, Zuopin Magazine, and Guangxi Literature Magazine. Her story ‘The Twelfth Man’ has been adapted for a film, while her story ‘The Missing Clock’ is a recommended read for O-Level students by Singapore’s Ministry of Education, collected in the anthology How We Live Now.
Yolanda is a co-organizer of the Singapore Migrant Worker Poetry Contest and Global Migrant Festival, also an event host and coordinator for outreach for the Chinese migrant worker community. Born in North-Eastern China, Yolanda came to Singapore on scholarship in 1998 and has been living there since then. She holds a Computer Science degree from the National University of Singapore and an MBA from INSEAD Business School. After her twenty years of corporate career, Yolanda is now an Executive Coach for career and leadership development.
