Yang-May Ooi is a cross-cultural author and advocate.
She is Chinese by heritage, Malaysian by birth and British by choice. As a first generation migrant to the UK, she currently lives in the multi-cultural English city of Oxford.
Her creative work emerges from her experience of making her home in both East and West – and a sense of being an insider and also outsider in different cultures. Her stories are infused with themes of belonging – from her novels The Flame Tree and Mindgame (1st ed. Hodder & Stoughton; 2nd ed. Monsoon Books) to her TEDx talk and her family memoir and theatre performance, Bound Feet Blues (Urbane Publications and Tristan Bates Theatre).
Yang-May says, “I love British traditions and also my Chinese and Malaysian heritage. My East Asian upbringing made me who I am and I am also shaped by my Western liberal values. I swoon for delicious Malaysian cuisine and I have also come to love hearty English food. I believe very much that if we can be curious about other cultures and other people – especially those that are not like us – we can find connection, joy and a true sense of belonging across any divide.”
You can find out more about Yang-May and her other creative work at TigerSpirit.co.uk. She is on Facebook, Instagram and Youtube as @TigerSpiritUK.
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Yang-May Ooi – Jason Warner
