We Are All Alone In This Anyway

“Jinny Koh writes stories of people on society’s edges in all kinds of crises—money, love, grief—and does so with sophistication and tremendous subtlety. Like any artist who has honed her craft to its strongest expression, each story is unlike the other, insightful and deeply moving.”
—Patrick Sagaram, author of In Places We Find Ourselves

“Secrets abound and uneasy desires erupt as characters make difficult, even dangerous choices that shake them to their core. A heartfelt, reflective portrait of quiet but intensely lived lives in contemporary Singapore.”
—Yu-Mei Balasingamchow, author of Names Have Been Changed

“Koh’s prose is stripped bare, restrained and revelatory.”
—Jon Gresham, writer, photographer, and author of Gus: The Life and Opinions of the Last Raffles’ Banded Langur

“Sharp, compassionate and quietly devastating. We Are All Alone in This Anyway is a memorable collection about solitude and survival.”
—Dr Anitha Devi Pillai, poet, translator and author of Sembawang: A Novel

“A kaleidoscopic masterclass in empathy and imagining how other lives are lived.”
—Thammika Songkaeo, author of Stamford Hospital

“Such lives of quiet desperation, and the desperately quiet. Jinny Koh has managed to capture them all, in prose that’s meticulous and measured.”
—Felix Cheong, poet, graphic novelist and author of Be Real

Jinny Koh’s stories and essays have appeared in The Iowa Review, Cream City Review, Pembroke Magazine and Kyoto Journal, among others. She graduated Phi Kappa Phi with a Master of Professional Writing from the University of Southern California, where she served as the Fiction Editor for The Southern California Review. She is the author of The Gods Will Hear Us Eventually (Ethos Books), a creative writing lecturer at the National University of Singapore, and co-founder of Deep Narrative, a content studio specializing in print, digital, and exhibitions.