David Leo does not want much of himself to be known except that he has published two volumes of poems, Somewhere a Tiny Voice (1993) and One Journey, Many Rivers (1997), three collections of short stories, Ah...the Fragrance of Durians (1993), The Sins of the Fathers (1993) and Wives, Lovers & Other Women (1995), a novella, Different Strokes (1993) and a book of humour on language, Kiasi, Kiasu You Think What (1995). He was awarded the Publishers Prize for fiction in 1993, a commendation prize for fiction by National Book Development Council in 1994, and a 1995 commendation Literature Prize.
