About the team behind poetry.sg.
MANAGING EDITOR
Jonathan Chan is a writer, editor, and translator. 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 shortlisted for the Singapore Literature Prize in 2024. His second collection is bright sorrow (Landmark, 2025). He reads poetry and creative nonfiction for The Plentitudes and PR&TA. His reviews can be found in Quarterly Literary Review Singapore, Cha, and The Rumpus.
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 and an MA in Queer Studies from the University of York. They were 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 queer and postcolonial 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 and an MA in Comparative Literature from University College London. Her poetry and essays have been published in The Isis magazine, the Oxford Review of Books, and The Hanok Review, among others. She is based in London. 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.
WEB EDITOR
Daryl Qilin Yam is a writer, editor and arts organiser from Singapore. Shortlisted for the Singapore Literature Prize and nominated for the International Dublin Literary Award, he is the author of two novels, a novella and the bestselling short story collection Be Your Own Bae (2024). He co-founded the literary charity Sing Lit Station and serves as the managing editor of its publishing arm, AFTERIMAGE.
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.
