Clara Chow - writer, editor, publisher
Clara Chow is a writer-editor born in Singapore. Her publications include story collections Dream Storeys and Modern Myths, as well as travelogues New Orleans and Caves.
She has been writer-in-residence at the University of Iowa (USA), Toji Cultural Centre (South Korea), Bogong Centre for Sound Culture (Australia), Rimbun Dahan (Malaysia) and Dragon Hall/National Centre for Writing (UK).
In 2020, Modern Myths was shortlisted for the Singapore Literature Prize. In 2022, she became the first person in the prize's history to be shortlisted simultaneously in three different catagories, for books in both Chinese and English: New Orleans, Not Great But At Least Something and 几首烂情诗/Lousy Love Poems.
Her works-in-progress involve typewriters, joss paper, disappearing ink, Chinese poetry, East-Asian TV dramas, tarot cards, Rolodexes, cowboys, samizdat, honey, baroque music, acts of female fandom, over-policing of museum visitors, bone-folders, motherhood, orchids, AI translation and self-care.
Other lives she has led include: journalist, creative writing teacher and competitive anime-watcher (only with herself). From January to July 2026, she is a creative resident at the National Library Board of Singapore.