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Shing Yin Khor is a graphic novelist and experience designer based in Los Angeles, CA, by way of Malacca, Malaysia. Their game design work, which includes the 2022 Indiecade winner for Best Tabletop Game, Remember August, and the keepsake embroidery game A Mending(which raised $190k on Kickstarter), centers around physical storytelling artifacts, divination mechanisms, and immigrant interpretations of nostalgic Americana, and is rooted in their work as a builder and artist - keepsake games centered on the bridge between physical making and traditional tabletop RPGs. Their second graphic novel, The Legend of Auntie Po, was published by Penguin Random House in June 2021, and was an Eisner winner and National Book Award in Youth Literature finalist.