Christian Yeo Xuan (he/they) is a writer and actor from Singapore by way of Paris and Beirut.

 

His work has been published or is forthcoming in Oxford Poetry, Indiana Review, The Mays, and New Singapore Poetries, among others. He won the Arthur Sale Poetry Prize, placed 2nd for the Aryamati Poetry Prize, came in 3rd for the National Poetry Competition, and was shortlisted for the Poetry London Pamphlet Prize, the Bridport Prize, and the Sykes Prize. He has received support from the Kenyon Review Writers Workshop, Tin House, and the National Arts Council. He is currently querying a full-length poetry manuscript, Carcasses of Light, and a novel, Now I see the Sender of All Bones. He holds a BA in Law from Cambridge.


Photographer: Crispian Chan

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