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TUTU
Amanda Lee Koe was born and raised in Singapore. She now lives
in New York, and has spent time in Beijing, Berlin and Bangkok. |
BOOKS & HONORS
Amanda was the youngest winner of the Singapore Literature Prize for the story collection Ministry of Moral Panic (Epigram, 2014). MoMP was longlisted for the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award and shortlisted for the Frankfurt Book Fair's LiBeraturpreis and the Haus der Kulturen der Welt's International Literature Prize. In 2017, the working manuscript for Amanda's debut novel, Delayed Rays of a Star, won the Henfield Prize, awarded to the best work of fiction by a graduating MFA candidate at Columbia University's School of the Arts. Delayed Rays of a Star was published in 2019 by Doubleday (US) and Bloomsbury (UK). It was a Straits Times #1 Bestseller, a most anticipated title from ELLE, Los Angeles Times, Thrillist, USA Today, and one of NPR's Best Books of The Year. |
EDITORIAL & FELLOWSHIPS
Amanda was editor in chief of the National Museum of Singapore's Cinémathequè Quarterly, a film and visual culture print journal, the fiction editor of Esquire Singapore, a fellow of the University of Iowa's International Writing Program, and a visiting writer-in-residence at Nanyang Technological University's School of Humanities in Singapore and the Fóndation Jan Michalski in Switzerland. ART & CULTURE
Amanda has collaborated on numerous art-writing, public programs and curatorial initiatives with contemporary artists, independent curators, non-profit spaces, commercial galleries, publishing platforms and cultural institutions including e-flux / art-agenda, Heinrich Böll Foundation, Hans Ulrich Obrist's +89 x KUNCI, Art Asia Pacific, Han Nefkens Foundation, Art Basel Hong Kong x THE STATE. |
FILM & TV
Amanda is currently developing a TV project with JAX Media and Wiip. BRANDED CONTENT
Amanda works with legacy and luxury brands to create literary-minded editorial and commercial content, such as Tea for Two for TWG as published in Vogue SG and CHANEL Short Stories for the House of Chanel as published in Harper's Bazaar SG. |