Born in Singapore and currently based in New York, Amanda Lee Koe is the winner of the 2014 Singapore Literature Prize for English Fiction, and the 2016 Singapore Book Award for Best Fiction Title, for her debut short story collection Ministry of Moral Panic (Epigram Books, 2013, 2016, 2021). The German translation by Zoë Beck was shortlisted for the Haus der Kulturen der Welt’s 2017 Internationaler Literaturpreis and the Frankfurt Book Fair’s 2017 LiBeraturpreis. The working manuscript for her first novel, Delayed Rays of a Star, won the 2017 Henfield Prize, awarded annually by the full-time fiction faculty at Columbia University’s Writing Program. The book was published in 2019 by Nan A. Talese/Doubleday (US) and Bloomsbury (UK).