press kit
High resolution headshots and book covers, as well as author bios, can be found here.
selected interviews
PEN AMERICA: The PEN Ten: Girl Gangs, Found Families, and Creating Kinship Outside of the Mainstream
CHICAGO REVIEW OF BOOKS: Ghosts, Girl Gangs, and Postcolonial Angst: A Conversation with Wen-yi Lee
ELLE MAGAZINE: Author Wen-yi Lee On Reimagining Singapore’s Darker Side With Her New Novel When They Burned The Butterfly
THE STRAITS TIMES: All-female, butterfly-tattooed S’pore gang inspired writer Wen-yi Lee’s fantasy novel
NERD DAILY: Q&A: Wen-yi Lee, Author of ‘When They Burned the Butterfly’
REACTOR: From Concept to Cover: When They Burned the Butterfly by Wen-yi Lee
GEEKSOUT: Interview with Wen-yi Lee, Author of When They Burned the Butterfly
F ZINE (FORMERLY FEMALE MAG): This One Young Singapore Writer Gives A Fresh Take On Monstrous Feminine
CATCH.SG: National Gallery Singapore’s NO FLASH podcast: How Singapore writers transformed art into fiction for the second season Third Eye
NERD DAILY: Q&A: Wen-yi Lee, Author of ‘The Dark We Know’
HORROR WRITERS ASSOCIATION: Asian Heritage in Horror Month: An Interview with Wen-yi Lee
TODAY ONLINE: Budding Singapore author, 24, wins book deal with top US publisher and Gone Girl author Gillian Flynn
TATLER ASIA: Meet 3 budding Singaporean female authors taking the young adult genre by storm
REACTOR: Dying Gods and Burning Girls: Announcing When They Burned the Butterfly by Wen-yi Lee
THE STRAITS TIMES: Singaporean Wen-yi Lee wins over best-selling author Gillian Flynn with debut The Dark We Know
GEEKSOUT: Interview with Wen-yi Lee, Author of The Dark We Know
BOOKISH BREWS: The Dark We Know by Wen-yi Lee, an Interview & Book Spotlight
podcasts & radio
TURN THE PAGE (Syosset Library, forthcoming)
CNA938 CULTURE CLUB: Sisterhood & Gangland Life – Author Wen-Yi Lee’s “When They Burned the Butterfly”, with Melanie Oliviero
BOOKWILD: Rage, Myth and Magic in 1970s Singapore: Wen-yi Lee’s When They Burned the Butterfly
WELL READ: Season 3, Episode 24: Wen-yi Lee & Addie Woolridge
SLEY HOUSE: Episode #172: When They Burned the Butterfly with Wen-yi Lee
THE WRITING LIFE: Becoming a published author: Wen-yi Lee on representation, writing residencies & building an audience (in conversation with Kate Worsley)
TRY READING: 55. LOWKEY TRAUMA BONDING | Try Reading Podcast ft. Wen-yi Lee
select book features
NPR, LIBRARY JOURNAL, REACTOR, GRIMDARK MAGAZINE, STRAITS TIMES: When They Burned the Butterfly – Best Book of 2025
LITERARY HUB, PASTE MAGAZINE, AUTOSTRADDLE, REACTOR: When They Burned the Butterfly – Most anticipated
PARADE, REACTOR, SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL: The Dark We Know – Best Books of 2024
BOOK RIOT: Fantasy Books about Revenge
BOOK RIOT: The Queer Books NPR Loved This Year
BOOKPAGE: The fine line between devotion and deicide
BOOK RIOT: 9 Fantasy Books with Magic Systems Based On Blood and Bones
THE STRAITS TIMES: Book Box: Tales from the dark side by Singaporean writers
THE STRAITS TIMES: 7 books by Singapore writers to look forward to in 2022
events
2026
- Breaking In – How to Write a Query Letter and Get an Agent, Singapore Book Council (25 Feb)
- Pass the Mic: Singlit Authors & Musicians in Conversation, Wen-yi Lee x Jean Seizure, VERSE Festival by Arts House Singapore (23 Jan)
- Queer Women’s Book Club, BFF Bar (19 Jan)
2025
- Out in Tech Book Club (19 Nov)
- Singapore Writers Festival, “The Underworld and Otherworldly Tales” (8 Nov), “Fanfics, Booktok and the Future of Fiction” (14 Nov)
- Singapore launch for When They Burned the Butterfly, Book Bar, with Daryl Qilin Yam (1 Nov)
- A Sapphic Fantasy Conversation with Maddie Martinez, IG Live (26 Oct)
- Virtual launch for When They Burned the Butterfly, Mysterious Galaxy Books, with Vaishnavi Patel (21 Oct)
- Reading Rhythms Reading Club – Hudson Yards (video appearance, 19 Oct)
- The Next Big Thing: Stories from Singapore, The Wheeler Centre, Melbourne (13 Oct)
- Brisbane Writers Festival, “Dark Imaginings” & “What Lurks in the Dark” (9-12 Oct)
- NTU Epiphany Anthology Launch, invited speaker (16 Aug)
- Lit from the Inside Workshop, National Centre for Writing, Norwich (19 Feb)
- Process, Publication, & Perspective, a conversation with Wen-yi Lee & Jemimah Wei, Singapore Book Council (15 Jan)
2024
- Singapore Writers Festival, “Careful, We Bite: Manifesting Girl Rage in a Supernatural World” & “Into the Unknown: Exploring Fantastical and Speculative Worlds” (8-17 Nov)
- A writer’s journey: A conversation with Wen-yi, NUS Lighthouse (29 Oct)
- Twists & Tropes, a YA conversation with Wen-yi Lee and Lauren Ho, Kinokuniya Singapore (24 Aug)
- Singapore launch for The Dark We Know, Book Bar, with Felicia Low-Jimenez (17 Aug)
- Virtual launch for The Dark We Know, Loyalty Bookstores, with Gillian Flynn (15 Aug)
- Asian Festival of Children’s Content, “Bookwatch: PG13-Romances”, as moderator (15 May)
- Horror writing workshop, Sploosh, Sing Lit Station (20 Apr)
- Spoke & Bird, featured reader (18 Apr)
2023 & earlier
- Singapore Writers Festival 2023, “Found Families in Science Fiction”
- Singapore Writers Festival 2022, “The Trouble With Tropes”
- Singapore Writers Festival 2021, “The Anatomy of a Wattpad Story”