Tan Keng Yao is a sub-editor with The Straits Times’ Life section, and also an independent writer and copy editor.

As a sub-editor, she edits news and feature articles for clarity, checks for grammatical and factual accuracy and writes headlines and captions. She also designs and lays out news pages. She has won multiple awards for her headlines and layouts in the course of her work with The Straits Times.

As an independent writer and copy editor, she works on a variety of publications from commemorative books to magazines. She also contributes food reviews and parenting columns to The Straits Times.

She is a former Travel & Lifestyle editor with SilverKris, Singapore Airlines’ inflight magazine.

She has more than 19 years of experience in newspaper and magazine publishing.