Beth YAHP
writer and librettist

Beth Yahp was born in Malaysia and came to Australia in 1984. Her short fiction, essays and articles have appeared in a range of anthologies, magazines and newspapers in Australia, South-east Asia and Europe, and she has edited or co-edited several collections of stories and essays, including Picador New Writing 3 and 4 (Picador, 1995 and 1997); Family Pictures (Angus & Robertson, 1994), My Look's Caress: A Collection of Modern Romances (Local Consumption Publications, 1990) and Nothing Interesting About Cross Street (HarperCollins, 1996), a collection of writings around the theme of girlhood, by girls and women. Her novel The Crocodile Fury (Flamingo, 1996) won the Victorian Premier's Prize for First Fiction and the NSW Ethnic Affairs Commission Award. It has been published in Singapore, the Netherlands, Belgium, the United Kingdom, Spain, Italy and is forthcoming in Greece in 2000. Beth is currently working on her second novel.

June 1999