About

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Jessica Zhan Mei Yu is a lecturer in creative writing at the University of Melbourne. She is a writer of fiction, essays and poetry. 

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Her debut novel, But the Girl is out now with Penguin Random House in Australia and Jonathan Cape in the UK. It will be released in the US in March with the Unnamed Press. Her essay collection, All the Stain is Tender is set to follow.

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She is represented by Ellen Levine at Trident Media Group.