Embracing the Tower: The Unknown and the Creative Process with May Ngo

Aug 21, 2025
35 mins

Episode Description

In this episode, I had the pleasure of speaking with writer, editor, and playwright May Ngo. I talked to May about the process of writing her first novel, the whiteness of crime fiction, the traumas of academia, and how pregnancy is a Tower moment.

May is a writer, editor and former academic with a PhD in anthropology. She is Australian of Teo Chew Chinese-Cambodian descent currently based in Prague, Czech Republic. She has been commissioned to write audio dramas, reviews, essays, editing, research, and copywriting as well as other creative collaborations. 

You can find more of her work at mayngo.net

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