Elaine Chiew is a writer and a visual arts researcher, and editor of Cooked Up: Food Fiction from Around
the World (New Internationalist, 2015). Twice the winner of the Bridport Short Story Competition, she has
published numerous stories in anthologies in the UK, US, and Singapore. Originally from Malaysia, Chiew
graduated from Stanford Law School and worked as a corporate securities lawyer in New York and Hong Kong
before studying for an MA in Asian Art History at Lasalle College of the Arts Singapore, a degree conferred by
Goldsmiths, University of London. She lives in Singapore and blogs at www.invisibleflaneuse.blogspot.com.