Shih-Li Kow is a former chemical engineer and mall manager. Her short story collection Ripples and Other Stories (2008), was shortlisted for the 2009 Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award. Her second book The Sum of Our Follies (2014), was translated into Italian and French. The French edition (tr. Frederic Grellier) won the 2018 Prix du Premier Roman Etranger. Her writing has been published most recently in Mekong Review, The Arkansas International, Short Fiction Journal, and ongoing.space. She lives in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in a house owned by three cats. Find her at Twitter:@shihlikow.
