Reverse-Gentrification of the Literary World

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Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan

CHERYL LU-LIEN TAN is a Singaporean novelist, journalist, and the inaugural George R.R. Martin Chair in Storytelling at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism. She is the author of the novel Sarong Party Girls and the memoir A Tiger in the Kitchen. Both books were international bestsellers. She is the coeditor of Anonymous Sex and editor of Singapore Noir. In 2024 she was named the chair of the Peyton Evans Artists Residency Alumni Network at the Studios of Key West. The National Arts Council of Singapore has awarded her multiple grants. Prior to writing novels, Tan was a staff writer at the Wall Street Journal, In Style, and the Baltimore Sun. She has been an artist in residence at Yaddo and Hawthornden Castle, among other places. Her latest work is Key West Noir.

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