Wen-yi Lee

Wen-yi Lee (李温仪) is the author of The Dark We Know (Gillian Flynn Books, 2024), a YA horror inspired by Spring Awakening, and When They Burned the Butterfly (Tor, 2025), an adult historical fantasy set in postcolonial Singapore. A Clarion West Workshop alum, her short fiction and essays have appeared in Lightspeed, Uncanny, Strange Horizons, Nightmare, and Reactor, among others, as well as best-of collections and anthologies including Amplitudes: Stories of Queer and Trans Futurity and Singaporean speculative collection Fish Eats Lion Redux. She has written fiction for National Gallery Singapore andThe Straits Times, among others, and has mentored for programmes like Author Mentor Match and Write Team Mentors. She is also the current managing editor of prose.sg, an archive of Singaporean writers.

Her work has been supported by the Carl Brandon Society’s Octavia E Butler Memorial Scholarship, the UK National Centre for Writing, and the National Arts Council of Singapore. She is a graduate of University College London and is currently based at home in Singapore, where she previously worked in publishing.

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