is a writer, editor and arts organiser from Singapore. The author of two novels, a novella and the bestselling short story collection Be Your Own Bae (2024), he has been nominated for the International Dublin Literary Award, and shortlisted for the Singapore Literature Prize and the SBPA’s Singapore Book Awards. He co-founded the literary charity Sing Lit Station, where he presently serves as the managing editor of its publishing arm AFTERIMAGE.
With appearances in periodicals and publications such as the Berlin Quarterly, the Sewanee Review, The Straits Times and The Epigram Books Collection of Best New Singapore Short Stories anthology series, his writing has also been described as “[breaking] new ground in Singaporean writing” (QLRS) and “[marking] a seismic shift in the landscape of contemporary Singaporean literature” (Cha: An Asian Literary Journal). In 2025, he was bestowed the Young Artist Award, Singapore's highest award for arts practitioners aged 35 and below.
✺ RECENT TITLES
🏅 Nominated for the 2025 POPULAR Readers’ Choice Awards (English, Adult)
Described as “dreamscape, portrait and meditation… a distinctly Singaporean book” (QLRS), Shantih Shantih Shantih is a heady mix of desire and dauntlessness that revels in its interconnections, pulling close a community that is at once together and apart. Get your copy of this new edition of the novella from the Epigram Bookshop, Kinokuniya, POPULAR or as an e-book.
🏅 Finalist for the Singapore Book Publishers Association’s 2025 Singapore Book Awards (Best Literary Work and Best Marketing Campaign)
Daryl Qilin Yam’s long-awaited (and bestselling!!) first collection of short fiction combines magical realism, speculative autobiography and ekphrasis. Get your copy today from the Epigram Bookshop, Kinokuniya, Wormhole or as an e-book.