In 2006 and 2013, Quek Shin Yi garnered third prize for her short stories in Golden Point Award, the premier biannual national writing competition organized by the National Arts Council of Singapore. Her works have been published in local literary journals and anthologies such as Quarterly Literary Review Singapore, Ceriph, and Coast, and a translation of her writing has appeared in the German literary journal, die horen. A Psychology graduate from the National University of Singapore, Shin Yi currently works as a Research Assistant in Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School.