Siew Siang Tay was born in Malacca, Malaysia, to second-generation Chinese parents. After working for 11 years in the petroleum industry in Malaysia, she left the corporate world and emigrated to Australia in 1992 with her daughter. She currently works at the University of South Australia. Her short stories have been published in literary magazines including Meanjin and Dimsum. She lives in Adelaide. In 2007 she won the Varuna-HarperCollins Manuscript Development Award which led to the publication of Handpicked, her first novel.
Handpicked. HarperCollins, 2009.
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