Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan is the inaugural George R.R. Martin Chair in Storytelling at Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications. She is the author of the international bestsellers A Tiger in the Kitchen, Singapore Party Girls, editor of Singapore Noir and the co-editor of the anthology Anonymous Sex. The National Arts Council of Singapore has awarded her multiple grants in support of her writing. She was a staff writer at the Wall Street Journal and the Baltimore Sun, and her work has appeared in The New York Times, Ploughshares, The Paris Review, Times Literary Supplement, The Washington Post, Bon Appetit, Chicago Tribune, and The (Singapore) Straits Times, among other places.