Noelle Q. de Jesus moved from the Philippines to Singapore in 2000 and has lived here with her husband and children since then. She is the author of Blood Collected Stories (Singapore: Ethos Books, 2015) which won the 2016 Next Generation Indie Book Award for Short Story (Fiction), and Cursed And Other Stories (Penguin Random House SEA, 2019). Her work has been published throughout Southeast Asia and in literary journals in the United States, including Puerto del Sol, Mud Season Review and Witness. She is a Singapore permanent resident and a freelance copywriter and editor. She has an MFA in Creative Writing from Bowling Green State University and has worked as sub- and features editor for women’s magazines at both SPH Magazines and MediaCorp Publishing.