2021 Lambda Literary Award finalist Tania De Rozario’s DINNER ON MONSTER ISLAND, a collection of personal essays braided with elements of history, pop culture, horror films, and current events that explores growing up a queer, brown, fat girl in Singapore in the vein of TRICK MIRROR and MINOR FEELINGS, to Sarah Ried at Harper Perennial, at auction, by Amanda Orozco at Transatlantic Agency (World English).
More about the author:
Tania De Rozario is a writer and visual artist. She is the author of Tender Delirium (Math Paper Press, 2013), which was shortlisted for the 2014 Singapore Literature Prize, and And The Walls Come Crumbling Down (Math Paper Press, 2016 & Gaudy Boy, 2020), which was a 2021 Lambda Literary Award finalist. She was the winner of the 2020 New Ohio Review Nonfiction Contest, the 2021 Muriel Craft Bailey Memorial Poetry Contest and Singapore’s 2011 Golden Point Award for English Poetry. She currently is an adjunct at the University of British Columbia’s School of Creative Writing, where she attained her MFA. Born in Singapore, she currently lives and works on the traditional unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations, colonially known as Vancouver.
Tania is represented by Amanda Orozco.