Agnes CHEW 周昀蒨 (fiction and nonfiction writer; Singapore) is the author of the fiction collection, Eternal Summer of My Homeland (2023), which was longlisted for The Asian Prize for Fiction, shortlisted for the POPULAR Readers’ Choice Award, and a national bestseller in Singapore; and the essay collection, The Desire for Elsewhere (2016). Her fiction has won the 2023 Commonwealth Short Story Prize (Asia), and has been published or is forthcoming in Granta, Necessary Fiction, and Best New Singaporean Short Stories, among others. She has received scholarships from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, Tin House, Granta Writers’ Workshop, and more. She is currently working on her first novel, which has been longlisted for the 2025 Goldfinch Novel Award. Her participation is funded by the National Arts Council Singapore.