Sharlene Teo was born in Singapore in 1987and has an MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia, where she received the Booker Prize Foundation Scholarship and the David TK Wong Creative Writing award.

In 2016, she won the inaugural Deborah Rogers Writer's Award for Ponti, her first novel, which is coming out on the 19th of April.

Sharlene's Book Choices: Things To Make And Break by May-Lan Tan Nowhere To Be Found by Bae Suah Dear Friend, From My Life I Write To You In Your Life – Yiyun Li

You can follow Sharlene on twitter @treebirds

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