Cher Tan is an essayist, critic and editor living and working on unceded Wurundjeri land (so-called “Melbourne”). She previously lived in Kaurna Yerta/Adelaide and Singapore, where she was born and raised.

Her work has appeared in Sydney Review of Books, Hyperallergic, Kill Your Darlings, Cordite, Gusher magazine, Catapult, The Guardian, Art Guide Australia and The Age, among many others.

She is the reviews editor at Meanjin and an editor at LIMINAL magazine. In 2023 she was a book columnist at the ABC. Her debut essay collection, Peripathetic: Notes on (Un)belonging, is out now with NewSouth Publishing.

Cher’s work thinks through technology, late capitalism, borders and boundaries, power and complicity, and the construction of identity, self, and culture in a hyper-real world. 

Read an interview with Cher in LIMINAL magazine here, with The Wheeler Centre here and with Writers Victoria here.

She is also a vocalist in various DIY bands/projects:
Grimalkin (2014-2018) | Spiteward (2017-2020)
ESP Mayhem (2019-present) | Public Stimming (2022-present)

To contact Cher, click here.