Emma Pei Yin

Emma Pei Yin is the author of When Sleeping Women Wake and founder of yinfluence, an agency that connects PoC, queer and neurodivergent writers to culturally aligned editors and mentors.

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Emma Pei Yin

Emma Pei Yin is an Australian-Chinese writer and editor. She is the author of When Sleeping Women Wake, a historical novel set during the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong, exploring resilience, complicity and the cost of survival. The book has been published globally.

She is also the founder of yinfluence editorial, an agency that works with PoC, queer and neurodivergent writers, connecting them with editors and mentors who understand the stakes of telling stories from the margins. She has been featured in The Canberra Times, Harper’s Bazaar, Cosmopolitan, Mekong Review and Vogue.

Emma is working on her second novel with her extremely barky dachshund, Lady, by her side.

Festival Events

The Question of Identity: Alli Parker and Emma Pei Yin

DATE March 28 TIME 10:00 am WHEREUniversity of Newcastle NUspace X207 Book now

Date with a Debut

DATE March 28 TIME 1:00 pm WHEREUniversity of Newcastle NUspace X207 Book now

BY THE ARTIST

A book cover featuring the shape of a woman with short black hair in a red high-necked dress, against a green background. The woman's face is replaced with a landscape. The title "When Sleeping Women Wake" is in cream lettering across the bottom half of the book.

When Sleeping Women Wake

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