about

Alicia is a Singaporean author-artist. She grew up dabbling in the visual arts, with a love for Chinese painting and acrylics.  She studied International Politics with a minor in Art at Peking University on a Beijing Government Municipal Scholarship. Unexpectedly, she found compelling stories to share and learned that stories come to her when she travels. She began writing as a student contributor to Lianhe Zaobao, Singapore’s Chinese-language newspaper. In 2013, she won Second Place in the 2nd China Original Short Musical Script Competition.

After working in Singapore’s private and public sectors for five years, she traveled across East Asia and eventually found her second home in Japan. Inspired by her four-year stay in Okinawa, she published her debut collection of short stories and poems, Echoes from an Island, in 2023. Her poetry collection, Heart Gap, is slated for release this autumn.

Her first encounter with ceramics was at age 15 in Suzhou. In 2024, she joined Atelier Sessa in Shibuya and began to deepen her practice. This summer, her debut pottery collection, COLORFULカラフル, is released.

Across all mediums, her style is expressive, warm, and full of wonder. She resides in Tokyo with her two cats, Coco and Naia. In addition to writing and pottery, she enjoys tea.