A Brief Biography of Yalie

By Adeline, Ee Sing, and Isabel Yalie Kamara is a first-generation Sierra Leonean-American writer, educator and activist from Oakland, California. She is currently pursuing her PhD in Creative Writing and English at the University of Cincinnati where she is also a Yates fellow. As a poet, she is the author of two collections of poetry,

Legibilities, Negotiations, Documents: in conversation with Jan-Henry Gray

Jan-Henry Gray is a Filipino-American poet. His debut collection, Documents, was chosen by D. A. Powell as the winner of the 2018 A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize. It was also chosen by writer and Yale-NUS lecturer Lawrence Ypil for our introductory class on writing poetry, where we discussed it at loving length. Earlier this October,

The Secret Manta (Yeow Kai Chai)

The Architectonics of Life and Poetry: A conversation with Yeow Kai Chai By Annika Mock, Winnie Tan and Yanni Chia Yeow Kai Chai is a multi-hyphenate Singaporean creative who has established himself as a poet, journalist, festival director and editor. As a fresh graduate, Yeow pursued entertainment journalism for some time, writing reviews on film

Living Our Hopes Through Writing

An Interview with Theophilus Kwek Note: This interview has been edited for length and clarity. 1. BIOGRAPHY Photo by © Jon Gresham Theophilus Kwek is a Singaporean poet who has published five collections of poetry, with the most recent being Moving House (2020). His accolades include the Martin Starkie Prize in 2014, the Jane Martin

Stephanie Chan for Beginners

Stephanie Chan (aka Stephanie Dogfoot) is a Singaporean spoken word poet. Her debut collection Roadkill for Beginners (2019) contains poems written over the last 10 years of her life, which have been marked by transition: from Singapore to the US for undergraduate studies, US to the UK for her masters in law, and then back