Yong Shu Hoong (b. 1966)
BIOGRAPHY
Yong Shu Hoong is the author of several poetry collections, including Isaac (1997), dowhile (2002), Frottage (2005), From Within the Marrow (2010), The Viewing Party (2013), Right of the Soil (2018) and Anatomy of a Wave (2022). Frottage, The Viewing Party and Anatomy of a Wave won the Singapore Literature Prize in 2006, 2014 and 2024 respectively. His poems and short stories have been published in literary journals like Quarterly Literary Review Singapore and Asia Literary Review (Hong Kong), and anthologies like Language for a New Century (2008) and Balik Kampung (2012). He is the editor of Passages: Stories of Unspoken Journeys (2013) and Here Now There After (2017).
He lives in Singapore, where he teaches part-time in Nanyang Technological University, where he was writer-in-residence from August 2013 to February 2014. As a freelance writer, he has written articles for The Straits Times, South China Morning Post, The New Paper, My Paper, Men’s Folio, Esquire Singapore and the MTV Asia website. In 2024, he started his appointment as Festival Director of the Singapore Writers Festival.
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SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Poetry
1997 – Isaac. Singapore: Firstfruits Publications.
2001 – Isaac Revisited. Singapore: Ethos Books.
2002 – Dowhile. Singapore: Firstfruits Publications.
2005 – Frottage. Singapore: Firstfruits Publications.
2010 – From Within the Marrow. Singapore: Firstfruits Publications.
2013 – The Viewing Party. Singapore: Ethos Books.
2016 – Right of the Soil [Chapbook]. Singapore: Ethos Books
2016 – Lost Bodies: Poems between Portugal and Home. Singapore: Ethos Books.
2018 – Right of the Soil. Singapore: Ethos Books.
2022 – Anatomy of Wave. Singapore: Dakota Books.
Fiction
2015 – The Adopted: Stories from Angkor. Singapore. Ethos Books.
Editorial
2013 – Passages: Stories of Unspoken Journeys. Singapore: Ethos Books.
2017 – Here Now There After. Singapore: Marshall Cavendish Editions.
