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Damask which she will tell you it’s a play on her Chinese name.ĭon’t laugh. Her Jan Xu Adventures series, an urban/contemporary fantasy set in Singapore, is written under the pseud. Joyce has also co-edited a Southeast Asian steampunk anthology titled THE SEA IS OURS: Tales of Steampunk Southeast Asia with Jaymee Goh. Her YA includes a trilogy about a desert planet and a fantasy duology in Qing China. Her fiction has appeared in The Apex Book of World SF II, We See A Different Frontier, Cranky Ladies of History, and Accessing The Future. She likes steampunk and tales of transfiguration/transformation. That’s probably why she makes a fierce fantasy/science fiction writer who writes about dragons and collects medieval swords.īorn in Singapore, but a global citizen, Joyce Chng writes mainly science fiction and YA. She entertains her daughter’s fantastical ideas and builds on them.

Joyce nurtures her daughter’s imagination, lets it run wild. I’ve always wanted to know what it’s like having an artist for a parent – be it a writer or painter or someone who pursues the arts – and I caught a glimpse of what that’s like by watching Joyce and her daughter’s interactions. They were a joy to talk to and so completely in sync with each other. We had lunch before the panel, where she introduced us to her precocious preteen daughter. I first met Joyce at the Singapore Writers Festival last year (Nov 2015), where we both shared a panel with Rachel Hartman (author of the YA fantasy series, Seraphina) and shared our thoughts about insta-love in young adult fiction.

Wolf At The Door by J. Damask