Tom Cho’s book “Look who’s morphing” has been short-listed for the Age book of the year award. This is a credit to his hard work and dedication to his creative ideas. Tom has been working on his short fiction for ten years, and despite discouragement from most publishers his collection was finally picked up by Giramondo Press. I’m really excited for Tom – he deserves the accolades. Not only is this a breakthrough for short fiction, it also shows that the mainstream literary world can recognise a unique voice and talent when they can see it. Tom did get some negative reviews including one short sighted reviewer who felt he should only concentrate on Chinese identity stories- which shows alas how limited some expectations are of Asian diasporic writers.  You can check out all the reviews of Tom’s book and his own thoughts at www.tomcho.com