Jeremy Tiang has translated more than ten books from Chinese, including novels by Zhang Yueran, Yeng Pway Ngon, and Chan Ho-Kei, and has been awarded a PEN/ Heim Grant, an NEA Literary Translation Fellowship, and a People’s Literature Award Mao-Tai Cup. He also writes and translates plays, including Xu Nuo’s A Son Soon (Manchester Royal Exchange) and an adaptation of the classic text A Dream of Red Pavilions that was performed off-Broadway earlier this year. Jeremy’s short story collection It Never Rains on National Day was shortlisted for the Singapore Literature Prize. Author photo: Oliver Rockwell.