Email Hwee Hwee Tan at hwee_tan@hotmail,com

    Hwee Hwee Tan published her first novel, "Foreign Bodies" (Penguin, 1997) when she was 22. Her short stories have been broadcast numerous times by the BBC and have also been published in PEN International, Critical Quarterly and New Writing 6, edited by A.S. Byatt. In 1995, her story, "Hungry Ghost" won an award for being one of the best stories broadcast on the BBC that year.

    She grew up in Singapore and the Netherlands. Educated in England, she received First class honours in English Literature while she was at the University of East Anglia, and completed FOREIGN BODIES while she was a graduate student at the University of Oxford. In 1997, she received the New York Times Fiction Fellowship at New York University. She currently lives in New York and thinks deep thoughts about profound subjects such as American-ASEAN bilateral relations, metaphysical poetry and exploding gerbils.