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Bio

Singaporean poet, editor and literary organiser.

👨‍👩‍👦 Father in training
📚Author of four poetry collections (sonnets from the singlish, making love with scrabble tiles, sfts upsized edition, footnotes on falling) and editor of eleven literary anthologies - most recently Call and Response 2 (an anthology of Singapore migrant writing)
🚝 Instigator of literary initiatives like Singapore Poetry Writing Month (SingPoWriMo), SingPo On The Sidewalks/ MRT / Bus / Boat, Book A Writer, poetry.sg, Southeast Asian Poetry Writing Month, the Hawker Prize for Southeast Asian Poetry
🤼‍♀️ Generator of terribad ideas, eg Sing Lit Body Slam, the world’s first and only professional wrestling / performance poetry hybrid performance
🛤 Co-founder and board chairman of overactive literary nonprofit Sing Lit Station to help writers and readers meet, a registered charity and IPC supported by the National Arts Council Major Company Grant (singlitstation.com)
🏆 Winner of Young Artist Award (SG) 2017, Singapore Literature Prize 2014, Golden Point Award (various categories and places ) 2011,2013,2015, ACS(I) National Day Propaganda Songwriting Competition (only two-time winner)
📕PhD candidate at RMIT in creative writing by practice research
🎶 Recovering acapella nerd, former music director of PennYo (the first collegiate Chinese acapella group in the US), founder of Sing Song 新声 (the first collegiate Chinese acapella group in China), writer of 4 full-length musicals.
🌐 Shameless payer of the annual costs of joshuaip.com