Stephanie Chan (b. 1987)
BIOGRAPHY
Stephanie Chan (she/they), sometimes going by the stage name Stephanie Dogfoot, is a spoken word poet and the author of the poetry collection Roadkill For Beginners (2019). She is also the co-editor of Exhale: An Anthology of Queer Singapore Voices (2021) and produces live events including poetry nights, comedy nights and cabarets in Singapore.
In 2010, Stephanie won the Singapore National Poetry Slam Championship and represented Singapore in the 2nd Indian Ocean Slam Championships on Reunion Island. In 2012, she won the UK Farrago Slam Championships and represented England in the European Slam Championships in Antwerp, coming in 2nd runner up. She went on to represent England in the Poetry Slam World Cup in Paris in June 2013.
Whilst living in London, Stephanie helped to curate and co-host Hammer and Tongue Slam Hackney. She also co-founded and co-produced a poetry open mic night called Forget What You Heard (About Spoken Word). She has performed around the UK at poetry nights, conferences, the Glastonbury Festival and Shambala Festival. She debuted her first solo spoken word show, Foreigner Go Home (With Me!) at the Edinburgh Free Fringe Festival in 2012.
In 2013, Stephanie returned to Singapore and began co-producing SPEAK, a poetry night based at the Home Club (later, Canvas Creative Space), which ran from 2012 to 2016. She also joined the feminist spoken word troupe Sekaliwags and was a founding member of Ministry of Noise, a spoken word collective which ran workshops and created interactive spoken word murder mystery shows. Stephanie’s poetry has since taken her all over the world, from the Ubud Writers’ and Readers’ Festival in Bali, Indonesia and the Asian Literature Festival in Gwangju, South Korea, to poetry tours of Germany, Australia and North America.
In 2020, Stephanie was awarded the Digital Presentation Grant for the Arts from Singapore's National Arts Council to develop four poems from Roadkill for Beginners into a short film. She collaborated with filmmaker Sharmeen Sifar and videographer Fadzil Noh to create the film An Intermediate Guide to Roadkill, which was featured at the International Poetry Film Festival of Thuringia in Germany and the Video Poetry Festival in Athens, Greece.
Stephanie currently produces and hosts a poetry night called Spoke and Bird which she founded in 2017 and which provides a platform for new poets and also features local and international writers, musicians and storytellers.
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