Shu-Ling Chua is a Melbourne-based essayist and the inaugural recipient of Dunedin’s Caselberg Trust Margaret Egan Cities of Literature Writers Residency. 

Her essay collection, Echoes, explores nostalgia and inheritance. It jointly won the 2021 Small Press Network Book of the Year Award. She is working on a full-length essay collection on art, intimacy, longing, and the blurry boundaries between private and public. 

Shu-Ling’s work has appeared in various publications, including Peril Magazine, Meanjin, Asian American Writers’ Workshop and 4A Papers. She was shortlisted for the 2021 Deakin University Nonfiction Prize and 2018 Woollahra Digital Literary Award.