Crispin Rodrigues

1. BIOGRAPHY

2. CRITICAL INTRODUCTION

3. SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

4. SELECTED POEMS

• Waters

• Hand-Me-Downs

• If you are reading this somewhere else

• Desertification

• my race wants me to have a body like joseph schooling

• big boi

• origin story (ii)

BIOGRAPHY

Crispin Rodrigues (he/him) is the author of four collections of poetry, Pantomime (2018), The Nomad Principle (2019), How Now Blown Crow (2021), and dragon.paper.wind (2024). He is also the co-editor of a poetry anthology featuring young Singapore poets called Crazy Little Pyromaniacs (2020). His poetry has appeared in Cordite, Rabbit, Tiger Moth Review, The Kindling, sploosh! and other literary magazines.

He also co-designed a literary tour of Yishun, entitled Uncanny Yishun, which documents various strange goings-on in his hometown, as part of #BuySingLit Festival in 2020. He also co-created a literary installation at the National Library called Marginalia, as part of the Singapore Writers Festival in 2025.

Crispin was a virtual resident of the National Centre for Writing in 2022. In addition to writing, Crispin is also fascinated with creative writing pedagogy.

Author Photo and Biography © Crispin Rodrigues. All rights reserved.

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