Justin Ker is a medical doctor at the National Neuroscience Institute, Singapore. He has a special interest in the injured brain and its damaged memories. His story “Joo Chiat and Other Lost Things” won second prize in the 2011 Golden Point Awards for fiction, and was anthologized in The Epigram Books Collection of Best New Singaporean Short Stories in 2013. He received the National Arts Council’s Emerging Artists Grant in 2005.