Josephine Chia is a Peranakan author who writes for adults and children in fiction and non-fiction. She enjoys writing about her cultural heritage, kampong life, yoga and cookery. She also contributes to online newspapers. Josephine has published 15 books. Josephine has won several literary prizes here and in UK and is a Singapore Literature Prize Winner. Her first YA Novel, won the Singapore Publishers Book Award and has been transcribed into braille. Josephine is a speaker and Creative Writing mentor. She is also a UK trained yoga teacher and has two books on yoga.