Suria Tei is an award-winning writer. Her first novel, Little Hut of Leaping Fishes, was listed for Man Asian Literary Prize and Best Scottish Fiction, and won Malaysia’s Readers’ Choice Award. Her second book, The Mouse Deer Kingdom, came third in the Readers’ Choice Award. Night Swimmer, the film she wrote the script for, won Best Short Film at Vendome International Film Festival. Born and raised in Malaysia, Tei came to Scotland to study in 1990s and now lives in Glasgow.