Tan Lixin (b. 1993)

1. BIOGRAPHY

2. CRITICAL INTRODUCTION

3. SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

4. SELECTED POEMS

• Lessons for a Birthday

• Funeral Song

• Where Winter Does Not Go

• On The First Day Of The Wake

5. SELECTED VIDEOS

6. TRACK CHANGES: “KEEPING SKELETONS, TO A FRIEND”

BIOGRAPHY

Tan Lixin was born and raised in Singapore. Her first two poetry collections, Keeping Skeletons and Before We Are Ghosts were published by Math Paper Press and she has a forthcoming collection exploring familial relationships and mental health. She is also a fiction writer and is particularly interested in horror and Chinese folk religion.

Lixin is a one-time Pushcart Prize nominee and her work appears in Fright 1 (2022 Storytel Epigram Horror Prize), Trampoline, Willows Wept Review and more. Find out more at lixin.cargo.site.

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