I’m still a wife, mother and manager of a private investment office. Until May 29th, I was a director for two companies in the financial sector. What does your daily practice look like for your writing? Do you have a certain time when you write? Any specific routine? Indeed, I’m hoping to present The Maid, a film in that genre, at Cinematheque.Ģ. The novel draws from a long line of creative works by Singapore artists using domestic workers and ghosts as lens to reflect on our society. Set in the now with flashbacks to the first half of the 20th century, the novel explores the intimacies that can develop when women of different status and background are thrown together, and the capacity for agency of all women including ghosts. I’m about 1/3 through a 1st draft of The Ash House, which is about a young woman who comes to Singapore to work in an ash-house and, in her pursuit of the quickest way to a better life, becomes entangled with the men, the wives and the ghosts of the house. Do you have a plan or project in mind for your time at the residency? Today we are talking with Audrey Chin, a writer from Singapore.ġ. We sit down with authors to ask about their work, their process and their descriptions of home. The Writing University conducts is a series of interviews with writers while they are in Iowa City participating in the International Writing Program's fall residency.
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