Creative Industries
Shymala Dason is a Malaysian-American writer, photographer, creative industries consultant, and former NASA research associate.
She came to the US to study physics and literature at Bennington College, followed by a Masters in Applied Maths at the University of Maryland, and ten years at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.
Being a first-generation expat (born in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and after decades abroad still a KL girl) her literary work naturally turns to issues of immigration, family, identity, culture and place; how we are defined by, and in turn define, the societies we live in.
This varied background, as well as extensive interests and connections in the arts and creative worlds allows her to provide informed creative industries consultation in Asia and elsewhere focused on harnessing creativity in corporate and institutional environments.
Reading in NYC on 12/16 from Wayang Colors, a finalist in the 2011 Hyphen/AAWW Short Story Contest. It is set in WW II Japanese Occupied Malaysia and told from a child's perspective.
She is currently seeking representation for a novel, Monsoon Coming. Read the opening here.