Heng Siok Tian (b. 1963)
BIOGRAPHY
Heng Siok Tian has published six collections of poetry: Crossing the Chopsticks and Other Poems (1993), My City, My Canvas (1999), Contouring, (2004), Is My Body a Myth (2011), Mixing Tongues (2011), and Grandma's Attic, Mom's HDB, My Wallpaper (2021). Together with Phan Ming Yen, Yong Shu Hoong and Yeow Kai Chai, she has co-published two collections of poetry: The Adopted: Stories from Angkor (2015), and Lost Bodies: Poems between Portugal and Home (2016). With Yong Shu Hoong, Yeow Kai Chai, and Toh Hsien Min, she co-published the poetry collection Lilla Torg: A Scandinavian Journey (2023),
Her poems are anthologised in Sound of Mind (2014), Little Things (2013), And Words (2010), Moving Worlds (2010), Fifty on 50 (2009), Tumasik (2009), Speaking for Myself: An Anthology of Asian Women’s Writing (2009), La Traductiere (2009), Ars Interpres (2007), Over There (2007), Harvest International (2006/2007), Idea to Ideal (2004), Love Gathers All: A Philippines-Singapore Anthology of Love Poems (2002), No Other City: An Anthology of Urban Poetry (2000), More Than Half the Sky (1998), Journeys: Words, Home and Nation (1995), The Calling of the Kindred (1993), Singapore: Places, Poems, Paintings (1992), New Voices in Southeast Asia (1991) and Words for the 25th (1990).
Besides poetry, Heng also writes short stories and plays. One of her short stories was translated into Italian and published by ISBN Edizioni (2005). Her short play, The Lift, staged in 1991, was read at the Third International Women Playwrights’ Conference in Adelaide in 1994.
In 2000, she was a Fellow with the Iowa International Writing Program at the University of Iowa, USA, on a National Arts Council Fellowship. She has participated in literary events in many countries, including China (1999), the USA (2000), the Philippines (2001), Sweden (2007), and France (2012).
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