Crystal Koo was born in Manila, worked as a lecturer in Hong Kong, and is currently doing a PhD in Creative Writing at Goldsmiths in London. She has interned with the magazine Wasafiri and is a winner of the Carlos Palanca Award for Literature and the Hong Kong Top Story award.

Crystal’s fiction has been published in multiple venues including Lightspeed Magazine, The Apex Book of World SF 4, and Plav. Her play The Foundling was staged by Burnt Mango Theatre Productions at the Fringe Club in Hong Kong in 2009.

Crystal has a story in our Global Majority anthology, Where We Find Ourselves