Chua Kok Yee’s debut novel Not A Monster won the 2nd Fixi Novo Malaysian Novel contest. He started writing about fifteen years ago, and his short stories have been published in various anthologies and periodicals including Best Of Malaysian Short Fiction in English 2010-2020 (Malaysia Writers Society, 2022), Ronggeng-ronggeng: Malaysia Short Stories (Maya Press 2019), Remang (Terrerbooks, 2017) Little Basket: 2016 (Fixi, 2016), KL Noir Blue (Fixi, 2014), Black and White and Other New Short Stories from Malaysia (CCCPress, 2012), Selangor Times, and Esquire Malaysia. He co-authored News From Home with Shih-li Kow and Rumaizah Abu Bakar in 2007, and his own collection of short stories, Without Anchovies, was published in 2010. Three of his stories from Without Anchovies are currently required reading for the Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia English Literature paper. Follow him on Twitter @ chuakoky33.
