Sharlene Teo
1. BIOGRAPHY
2. CRITICAL INTRODUCTION
3. SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
4. SELECTED PROSE
an excerpt from “Roland”
BIOGRAPHY
Born in Singapore, Sharlene Teo currently resides in London, and works as a Lecturer in Creative Writing at Kent University (School of English).
She has a LLB (hons) in Law from the University of Warwick, an MA in Creative Writing and a PhD in Creative and Critical Writing from the University of East Anglia. Sharlene is also a recipient of the 2014 Sozopol Fiction fellowship, the 2013 David T. K. Wong Creative Writing fellowship, the 2012 UEA Booker Prize Foundation scholarship and the 2017 University of Iowa International Writing fellowship.
Teo’s work has been translated into eleven languages, and she is the author of the novel Ponti (2018), which won the inaugural Deborah Rogers Writer’s Award, was shortlisted for the Hearst Big Book Award and the Edward Stanford Fiction Award, was longlisted for the Jhalak Prize and was selected by Ali Smith as one of the best debut works of fiction of 2018. Her work has been featured in places such as the TLS, Esquire UK, Magma Poetry, Eunoia Review, Lit Hub, Vogue and the Daunt Books anthology At the Pond.
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