BERNICE CHAULY is a Malaysian writer, poet and Festival Curator of the George Town Literary Festival in Penang. For over 20 years, she has worked extensively in the creative industries as a writer, photographer, actor and filmmaker and has won multiple awards for her work and her contribution to the arts. Born to Chinese-Punjabi teachers, she read Education and English Literature in Canada as a government scholar. Her five books of poetry and prose include the literary memoir Growing Up With Ghosts (Matahari Books, 2011), which won third prize in the non-fiction category of the 2012 Popular – The Star’s Readers’ Choice Awards, and her third collection of poems Onkalo (Math Paper Press, 2013). In 2012, she was writer-in-residence with the Dutch Foundation for Literature in Amsterdam.  She currently lectures in English and Creative Writing at Taylor’s University in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
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