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Early life and education
Cheng’s biracial, Eurasian background had a significant influence on her experience growing up as well as her writing practice. She was born in Adelaide, Australia and moved to Hong Kong in the mid-1980s, wherein she attended an English-speaking school. She studied medicine at a Melbourne university and graduated in 2003. Thereafter, she interned and worked in hospitals, and volunteered with an Australian-based NGO in Cambodia, before making the decision to pursue general practice. While she wrote casually for personal leisure throughout her years of schooling before pursuing the craft more seriously as her professional life as a general practitioner progressed.

Currently, Cheng is a mother, writer and general practitioner based in Fitzroy, Melbourne. She has been published in print and online. Her writing as appeared in The Age, The Weekend Australian, SBS Online, Meanjin, Overland, Griffith Review, Sleepers Almanac, The Bridport Prize Anthology, Lascaux Review, Visible Ink, Peril, The Victorian Writer and Seizure. Her short story collection, Australia Day, won the 2016 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for an Unpublished Manuscript and went on to win the 2018 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Fiction. Her latest book is the novel, Room for a Stranger. She cites Richard Yates, Alice Munro, Haruki Murakami and Christos Tsiolkas as her literary inspirations and influences.