Beth Yahp

Beth Yahp was born in Malaysia in 1964 of Chinese-Thai-Eurasian parents and came to university in Sydney in 1984. She has published a number of short stories in several Australian literary journals, anthologies and newspapers. Her novel The Crocodile Fury won the Victorian Premier's Prize for First Fiction and the NSW Ethnic Affairs Commission Award. It has been published in Singapore, the Netherlands, Belgium, the United Kingdom, Spain, Italy and Greece. Beth has been based in Paris, and is working on a trilogy of novels around the themes of migration, inheritance, story-telling and thievery. She has recently been involved with the Elision Ensemble, working as a librettist with composer Liza Lim. They collaborated on the opera, Chang-O Flies to the Moon / Moon Spirit Feasting.

The Crocodile Fury. Angus and Robertson, 1992.

Edited:

Picador New Writing 4. Picador, 1997.
Nothing Interesting about Cross Street. Angus and Robertson, 1996.
Picador New Writing 3. Picador, 1995.
Family Pictures. Edited by Yahp. She has a section ("Photo 1955") in the collection as well. Angus and Robertson, 1994.
My Look's Caress: A Collection of Modern Romances. Local Consumption, 1990.