Poon, Wena

Wena Poon's stories have been professionally produced on the London stage, serialized on BBC Radio 4, extensively anthologized, and translated into French, Italian, and Chinese. Winner of the UK's Willesden Herald Prize for best short fiction, she has been nominated for Ireland's Frank O'Connor Award, France's Prix Hemingway, the Singapore Literature Prize, and the UK's Bridport Prize for Poetry. Her work is studied by British and American academics of transnational literature and are part of the Cambridge 'O' Level Literature exam syllabus in Singapore high schools. She graduated magna cum la...