Koh Jee Leong (b. 1970)
BIOGRAPHY
A Singapore poet and essayist living in New York, Koh Jee Leong is the author of five books of poems, Payday Loans (Poets Wear Prada Press, 2008; Math Paper Press, 2014), Equal to the Earth (Bench Press), Seven Studies for a Self Portrait (Bench Press), Steep Tea (Carcanet Press, 2015), Connor & Seal (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2020) and a collection of poetic essays The Pillow Book (Math Paper Press). Shortlisted for the Singapore Literature Prize, his work has been translated into Chinese, Japanese, and Russian.
Jee Leong lives in New York City. He is the founder of the literary non-profit Singapore Unbound, which organises the biennial Singapore Literature Festival in New York City and the monthly Second Saturdays Reading Series, and publishes works of poetry, fiction and creative non-fiction through Gaudy Boy.
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