May Ngo is a writer, editor and former academic with a PhD in anthropology. She is Australian of Teo Chew Chinese-Cambodian descent. May is available for commissions in audio drama, writing, editing, research, copywriting as well as other creative collaborations.

You can read some of her writing here

She is the founder of the Prague Writers Workshop

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She used to blog at The Violent Bear It Away.

Awards/Fellowships

• Recipient of the Kill Your Darlings 2021 New Critic Award, focusing on translated literature.

• Recipients of the Sydney Review of Books 2021 JUNCTURE Fellowship Program for book critics

• Shortlisted for the Woollahra Digital Literary Awards in the non-fiction category for review essay ‘On the Line’ (by Joseph Ponthus, trans. by Stephanie Smee) published in Kill Your Darlings

• Shortlisted for the 2021 Wheeler Centre The Next Chapter award for a crime fiction manuscript

• Accepted onto the mentoring program Asian Women Writers for her crime fiction manuscript with mentoring by Abigail Fenton, Editorial Director at HQ stories. You can read May’s profile here

• Recipient of the Faber Writing Academy Writing Creative Nonfiction scholarship 2024 with Rebecca Griggs