About the team behind poetry.sg.
MANAGING EDITOR
Jonathan Chan is a writer and editor. Born in New York to a Malaysian father and South Korean mother, he was raised in Singapore. He holds an MA in English from the University of Cambridge and an MA in East Asian Studies from Yale University. He is the author of the poetry collection going home (Landmark, 2022), which was named a 2022 Book of the Year by SUSPECT. He reads poetry and creative nonfiction for The Plentitudes and PR&TA and reviews for QLRS. Some of his poems have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net, Robert Siegel Prize, and the Hawker Prize for Southeast Asian Poetry. jonbcy.wordpress.com.
CRITICAL EDITOR
Laetitia Keok is a writer and editor from Singapore. She holds a BA in English Literature from Nanyang Technological University, and is now based in New York City, where she is an MFA candidate in Poetry at New York University. laetitia-k.com.
CRITICAL EDITOR
Leonard Yip is a writer of landscape, place, and people. He holds a BA and an MPhil in English from the University of Cambridge, where his work on multimedia representations of Singapore’s edgelands was awarded the Members’ English prize for best overall dissertation. His essays and poems have been published with Moxy Magazine, Ekstasis, and the Nature Society (Singapore). He lives and works in Singapore, with a continued focus on the changing terrains and ecologies of the Anthropocene.
CRITICAL EDITOR
Joan Ang holds a BA in English from the University of York, and was one of the winners of the 1st Singapore Unbound Awards for the Best Undergraduate Critical Essays on Singapore and Other Literatures. Their interests include Singaporean literature, food writing, and postcolonial and queer critique.
CRITICAL EDITOR
Andrew Kirkrose Devadason is a Singaporean student of linguistics. Under his birth name, Devadason contributed the winning piece of the 2019 Hawker Prize to the journal OF ZOOS. His work has appeared in journals including Cordite Poetry Review and PERVERSE, and anthologies including New Singapore Poetries and EXHALE: An Anthology of Queer Singapore Voices.
CRITICAL EDITOR
Claire Ion is a writer and editor who holds a BA in English Language and Literature from the University of Oxford. She is particularly interested in Singaporean literature, translation, global Korean diasporas, and postcolonial studies. Her poetry and essays have been published in The Isis magazine, for which she was a senior editor in 2021, the Oxford Review of Books, and The Hanok Review, among others. claireion.carrd.co.
MARKETING EDITOR
Laura Jane Lee is a Hong Kong-born poet based in Singapore. She is the author of flinch & air (Out-Spoken Press, 2021) and serves as Poetry Editor at SPLOOSH! Magazine. She is a winner of the Sir Roger Newdigate Prize and various international poetry competitions. Her work has been featured in The Straits Times, Tatler Asia, Poetry London, Ambit, Quarterly Literary Review Singapore, and the 52nd Poetry International Festival in Rotterdam, among others.
MARKETING EDITOR
Nicole Ann Law is an educator and poet. She holds a BSc in Economics from the London School of Economics and writes poetry in her free time. She writes a weekly column for Adamah Media and has a particular interest in the intersection between belief, poetry and identity. She also hosts a podcast on the intersection of faith and secularism. Her poetry has been featured in SingPoWriMo, Cha and the anthology A Given Grace.
MULTIMEDIA EDITOR
Jennifer Anne Champion has published two collections of poetry and has been featured in numerous anthologies in Singapore and abroad. She is a co-founder of poetry.sg and served as its multimedia editor. Currently, Jennifer’s practice is grounded in slow crafts and mindfulness. She was a digital writer-in-residence with the National Centre for Writing (UK) for her work in poetry and textiles. Her poetry and textile works have also been on display with Art Outreach Singapore and NUS EMCC.
WEB EDITOR
Daryl Qilin Yam is a writer, editor and arts organiser from Singapore. He is the award-nominated author of the novella Shantih Shantih Shantih (2021), and the novels Lovelier, Lonelier (2021) and Kappa Quartet (2016). He co-founded the literary charity Sing Lit Station.
ACADEMIC ADVISOR
Li Qi Peh is an Assistant Professor of English at Nanyang Technological University studying poetry and poetics and the science and literature of the long eighteenth century. She completed her PhD at Columbia University, and was previously a Lecturer in the Princeton Writing Program.
ACADEMIC ADVISOR
Eddie Tay is a poet, street photographer and literature professor at the Department of English, Chinese University of Hong Kong, where he teaches undergraduate courses on creative writing, children’s literature and poetry. He also teaches a postgraduate course on autoethnography, photography and social media. He is the author of four volumes of poetry, one of which also features his own street photography. His recent book, Hong Kong as Creative Practice (Palgrave, 2023) blends scholarly writing with street photography.
