hey there, friend!
I am a Malaysian Chinese writer, translator, and overall language enthusiast fascinated by the strange and fantastical thrumming just below the surface of the mundane. I graduated with an MA in Translation Studies in 2024, and I have a wider creative background in graphic design, media production, and editorial.My interests are legion, but mostly revolve around contemporary media, interactive storytelling (whether conventional video games, interactive second-person Twine browser games, or a secret third thing), and the intersection between East/Southeast Asian culture and languages. I am on a mission to one day figure out how to make a perfect, irreproachable loaf of sourdough focaccia, and hopefully along the way work on stories that help us imagine the world kinder, wilder, and more complexly.I am currently based in the UK.
— new naratif (editorial illustration)
I made a political comic explainer on tolerance in a diverse society for New Naratif, a Southeast Asian news platform. The full comic can be read here, 2019.
— life's library (banner design)
Life's Library was an online book club founded by John Green and Rosianna Halse Rojas, all proceeds of which go to Partners in Health's work in Sierra Leone. The banners are representations of the discussion groups within the forum. 2018.
— fa women make waves
Film-screening fundraiser event for the Women's March KL. Poster and social media design, 2020.
— header/banner design
— bookish enamel pin
— commissioned art prints
— social media design
articles + interviews
From 2019 – 2022, I was a regular contributor to the book blog The Quiet Pond. Below are a selected sample of authors I've interviewed over the course of my time as a book blogger.
book reviews
fiction
Softly Sayang
In 2020, I collaborated with a friend on a comic that would later be published in a Southeast Asian comic anthology themed around sound. Our story, titled Softly Sayang, tells the story of a young girl who begs a mysterious shopkeeper to take away her ability to hear her mother's voice.More information about the anthology, published by Difference Engine Singapore, can be found here.
narration
Dragonsworn, L Chan