Yong Shu Hoong is the author of five poetry collections, including Frottage (2005) and The Viewing Party (2013), which won the Singapore Literature Prize in 2006 and 2014 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 (W.W. Norton, 2008) and Balik Kampung (Math Paper Press, 2012). He lives in Singapore, where he works as a freelance writer and teaches part-time in tertiary institutions like Republic Polytechnic and Nanyang Technological University.
