Balli Kaur Jaswal

The daughter of a diplomat, Balli Kaur Jaswal was born in Singapore and grew up in Japan, Russia, and the Philippines. She received a BA in Creative Writing from Hollins University in Virginia and a PhD from Singapore's Nanyang Technical University. Her essays and op-eds about diaspora, censorship, racism, and sexuality have appeared in the New York Times , Cosmopolitan , Refinery29 , The South China Morning Post , Harper's Bazaar , and Salon.com. She lives with her family in Singapore, where...See more

The daughter of a diplomat, Balli Kaur Jaswal was born in Singapore and grew up in Japan, Russia, and the Philippines. She received a BA in Creative Writing from Hollins University in Virginia and a PhD from Singapore's Nanyang Technical University. Her essays and op-eds about diaspora, censorship, racism, and sexuality have appeared in the New York Times , Cosmopolitan , Refinery29 , The South China Morning Post , Harper's Bazaar , and Salon.com. She lives with her family in Singapore, where she is a professor at Yale-NUS. See less