Christina Amanda Yin
Swinburne University of Technology, Sarawak Campus Malaysia
A former broadcast journalist, news anchor, newspaper columnist and communications officer for a non-profit conservation organisation, Christina is a Senior Lecturer and Associate Dean at Swinburne University of Technology, Sarawak Campus. She has co-written and edited conservation publications including The Next 100, a manual of English and Conservation Education activities, and Orang-Utan Folklore and Iban communities. Christina has published short stories in Anak Sastra and meets weekly with students in a creative writing group on campus. Apart from her teaching, Christina organises student volunteers in Swinburne’s annual conservation events and inter-school debating championship, the largest English debating tournament in Borneo.
This is a story about a daughter who is left to take over her father's business when he passes away. She becomes the Melanau fisherman in Mukah, the Melanau heartland, Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo.