Esther Vincent Xueming (b. 1987)
BIOGRAPHY
Esther Vincent Xueming is the editor-in-chief and founder of The Tiger Moth Review, an ecojournal of art and literature based in Singapore. She authored two poetry collections: womb song (Ethos books, 2024) and Red Earth (Blue Cactus Press, 2021), and co-edited two environmental anthologies: Here was Once the Sea: An Anthology of Southeast Asian Ecowriting (2024) and Making Kin: Ecofeminist Essays from Singapore (2021). She is also co-editor of two poetry anthologies: Poetry Moves (2020) and Little Things (2025; 2013). Esther has served as guest editor for Mānoa Journal (35.2), University of Hawai’i Press (2024) and as guest regional editor, Asia for a special eco-themed issue of The Global South (16.1), University of Mississippi (2022). A literature educator by profession, she is passionate about the entanglements in art, science, literature, spirituality and ecology.
Esther is featured regularly in the Singapore Writers Festival, and has been programmed at the Ubud Writers and Readers Festival (2022), Amazonia, The National Museum of Singapore (2024) and The Listening Biennial, Night Festival Singapore (2025). Esther is a 2025 National Centre for Writing (Norwich, UK) Singapore Writer-in-Residence. Besides teaching and writing, Esther is an Usui Reiki Master and ANFT Forest Therapy Guide whose practice involves relating to the more-than-human world in an embodied, heart-centred way.
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