Join Singapore Unbound in celebrating the launch of author Rahad Abir’s novel BENGAL HOUND, a love story that unravels in the tumultuous years leading up to the war for the Bangladeshi Independence, revealing the irreconcilable fissures of land and life.

Join us for mingling and readings from Rahad Abir and Yu-Mei Balasingamchow, an open mic, and musical guest, AËLÍN!

This event will take place at the FourOneOne performance space at 411 Kent Ave in Brooklyn, NY. RSVP to jkoh@singaporeunbound.org.

Rahad Abir is a writer from Bangladesh. His work has appeared in Prairie Schooner, Witness, The Los Angeles Review, Himal Southasian, Courrier International, The Wire, and elsewhere. He has an MFA in fiction from Boston University. He is the recipient of the Charles Pick Fellowship at the University of East Anglia and the Marguerite McGlinn Prize for Fiction. His work has been translated into French and Hindi. Currently he is working on a short story collection, which was a finalist for the 2021 Miami Book Fair Emerging Writer Fellowship. He lives in Georgia, USA.

Yu-Mei Balasingamchow (she/her) is the co-author of Singapore: A Biography, editor of How We Live Now: Stories of Daily Living, and co-editor of In Transit: An Anthology from Singapore on Airports and Air Travel. Her short fiction has received a Pushcart Prize Special Mention, won the Mississippi Review Fiction Prize and been shortlisted for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize. She is working on a novel with the support of a 2022 grant from the Elizabeth George Foundation.