Chandreyee Ray

What is your full name?

Chandreyee Ray.

What is your first name?

Chandreyee.

Where were you born?

Kolkata, India. But I moved to Singapore as a child, and I am a Singaporean citizen.

Where do you currently reside and work?

New York City, USA.

What is your educational background?

I am pursuing an MFA in Writing (Nonfiction) at Columbia University in New York.

What are other details of experiences, work or otherwise, that have led you to your current work?

I spent five years at Vogue Singapore, where I joined the launch team in 2020 and eventually helmed the lifestyle and culture section. A big part of that job was building a space where literary and cultural conversations could sit comfortably inside a fashion magazine. I worked on pieces that engaged with art, books, and the emotional and political conditions of living in Singapore today, including coverage on migrant labour, feminism, and other issues that felt urgent in our context.

How would you describe your practice/business?

I am a writer working on essays that blend memoir, criticism and cultural thinking. My work is preoccupied with women’s interior lives and how our personal histories and larger social structures shape our sense of self. A question I return to often is about wanting: why we want what we want, and how might our wants be brought into alignment with our values, including the kinds of feminist and class solidarities we hope to practice.

What are the highlight projects in your career so far?

At Vogue Singapore, I created Vogue Dialogues, an interview series designed to foreground deeper cultural and intellectual conversations among women writers in Singapore.

I profiled influential women, from activists such as Kirsten Han, Constance Singam and Amanda Nguyen to cultural icons like Lucy Liu and Charli XCX.

What are you currently working on?

I am currently working on a larger nonfiction project exploring women’s interior lives. The work moves between memoir and criticism, and explores desire, inheritance and the values we hope to live by.

I am also presently serving as Managing Editor at Aster(ix) Journal, a New York-based feminist literary journal. This role has shaped my sense of what deeply considered, rigorous editing can enable, and I am excited to work on future issues.

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