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VOGUE: A decade in the making, ‘The Original Daughter’ is a breathtaking triumph and a complicated ode to working-class Singapore
NATIONAL BOOK FOUNDATION: Watch the 2025 5 Under 35 Ceremony [VIDEO]
GOOD MORNING AMERICA: ‘The Original Daughter’ by Jemimah Wei is our ‘GMA’ Book Club pick for May [BROADCAST]
GOOD MORNING AMERICA: Jemimah Wei talks debut novel, ‘The Original Daughter’ [BROADCAST]
TATLER: Jemimah Wei on the story behind her debut novel and what it means to be a writer in Southeast Asia
HARPER’S BAZAAR: Catching Up With Jemimah Wei, Singaporean Author Of ‘The Original Daughter’
LITHUB: Jemimah Wei on Crafting a Story of Family, Sisterhood, and Singapore
BOMB — The Geography of Family Bonds and Chosen Chains on Full Display in this Debut Novel
ZZYZYVA: Choosing Each Other: Q&A with Jemimah Wei
ELECTRIC LIT: “The Original Daughter” Touches the Aching, Unglamorous Heart of Singapore
DEBUTIFUL: The Original Daughter was the book Jemimah Wei needed to write [PODCAST]
BARNES & NOBLE: Poured Over: Jemimah Wei on The Original Daughter [PODCAST]
BEHIND THE STACKS: Jemimah Wei, The Original Daughter [PODCAST]
GAYS READING: Jemimah Wei (The Original Daughter) feat. Prabal Gurung, Guest Gay Reader [PODCAST]
NEW HAMPSHIRE PUBLIC RADIO: Check This Out: Jemimah Wei & The Original Daughter
THE BOOKCASE:Jemimah Wei is the GMA Book Club Pick! [PODCAST]
DEBUTIFUL: The Original Daughter by Jemimah Wei and Knowing What You Want To Write [PODCAST]
INDIES INTRODUCE: Jemimah Wei in conversation with Dave Suiter of Pages, A Bookstore [PODCAST]
VULTURE: The National Book Foundation’s New ‘5 Under 35’ Is Here
ELLE: Writing with Chaos (Print, Online)
PORTER: Six Incredible Creatives Share Their 2025 Hopes And Goals
New York Foundation for the Arts: “My Firstborn:” A Conversation with Jemimah Wei on Writing Life and Her Debut Novel, The Original Daughter
Literary Hub: Five Asian Diasporic Writers on the Pandemic Present and the Possibilities of Flash Fiction
AAWW The Margins: Five Writers on Asian Diasporic Flash Fiction
MFA Writers Episode 21 – In Conversation with Jared McCormack
Elle: Singaporean writer Jemimah Wei, on taking your dreams seriously
Babelfish Asia: Singaporean writer Jemimah Wei, on pursuing an unconventional career
Shoutout LA: Meet Jemimah Wei, Writer
The Straits Times – Building Book Buzz Online
Sinema Singapore– Say It As It Is
Smokelong Quarterly – Author Interview for SmokeLong Quarterly
NTU Magazine – A New Narrative

THE NEW YORK TIMES — Two Ambitious Sisters Are Each Other’s Biggest Supporters — and Saboteurs
THE STRAITS TIMES — FIVE STARS: Jemimah Wei’s The Original Daughter is the quintessential Singaporean novel
FOREIGN POLICY — The Novels We’re Reading in May
THE NEW YORK TIMES — 8 New Books We Recommend This Week
PEOPLE — Jemimah Wei’s Original Daughter Is GMA’s May Book Club Pick — Here’s How It Came to Be (Exclusive)
TIME — The Best New Books to Read in May
VOGUE — 9 new titles from Asian authors to add to your reading list in 2025
ABC NEWS AUSTRALIA — The best new books released in May
LITHUB — Here are the winners of The National Book Foundation’s “5 Under 35.”
HARPER’S BAZAAR — The 25 Best Books Coming Out This Spring
DATELINE — Seven Buzzy Book-To-Screen Opportunities To Look Out For At Next Week’s London Book Fair
THE BOOKSELLER — W&N scoops Wei’s literary debut
TEXTURES 2022 — Singaporean artist Nature Shankar creates a piece of digital art in response to “The Life Cycle of Temporal Biomatter Attachments” by Jemimah Wei for The Arts House’s Textures 2022 Festival
THE PROMPT — Phillips Auction House commissioned a short story from Jemimah Wei in response to Brooklyn-based artist Sarah Slappey’s Yellow Touch
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF THE ARTS— Current Writing Students Jemimah Wei and Madeleine Cravens Awarded Stegner Fellowships at Stanford University