Joyce graduated from the National University of Singapore with a degree in English, and has since worked as a lifestyle journalist, fashion editor, and freelance writer at various publications.  

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She is the author of the young adult contemporary romance, LAMBS FOR DINNER (Straits Times Press, 2013) – one of five winners of the Beyond Words: Young and Younger competition organised by the National Arts Council and Straits Times Press – and Asian fantasy novel, LAND OF SAND AND SONG (Penguin Random House SEA, 2021). Her work has been published in Cosmopolitan, Harper's Bazaar, Yahoo! and more. 

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Now a sub-editor by day and writer by night, she publishes her short fiction on her co-founded short story blog Muse in Pocket, Pen in Hand in between working on her next novel.