Bernice Chauly
Bernice Chauly is a Malaysian novelist, poet, educator, and former director of the George Town Literary Festival.
She has published seven books of poetry and prose: going there and coming back (1997), The Book of Sins (2008), Lost in KL (2008), the acclaimed memoir Growing Up With Ghosts (2011), Onkalo (2013), her debut novel Once We Were There (2017) and her fourth poetry collection, Incantations/Incarcerations (2019). For over twenty years she worked as a multi-disciplinary artist and her photographs and films have been exhibited and screened worldwide. She is the founder and director of the KL Writers Workshop (KLWW) and is the first protem President of PEN Malaysia.
