Wena Poon began writing fiction at an early age. A fourth generation Singaporean, she moved to America as a teenager and worked as a journalist and lawyer in New York, Boston, San Francisco, Austin and Hong Kong. Her first book, Lions In Winter, was listed for the 2008 Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award and the Singapore Literature Prize. Since then she has released The Proper Care of Foxes and The Biophilia Omnibus, a literary science fiction series. She is writing Alex y Robert, a contemporary novel about women matadors in Spain, to be released in the UK in 2010. [Read]