Jee Leong Koh

Jee Leong Koh is a Singaporean writer, editor, publisher, and activist based in New York City. A democratic socialist, Koh works for economic transformation, social justice, intercultural understanding, and open borders. As the founder and organizer of the socially conscious literary organization Singapore Unbound, Koh started the biennial Singapore Literature Festival in NYC, the monthly Second Saturdays Reading Series, the literary press Gaudy Boy, and the journal of Asian writing and art SUSPECT. The festival has featured Gina Apostol, Cherian George, PJ Thum, and Jackie Wang, among others. Koh’s books of poetry, fiction, and creative non-fiction have been published in Japan, Singapore, the UK, and the US, and they have won the Singapore Literature Prize, been named a Financial Times’ Best Book of the Year, and been shortlisted for the Lambda Literary Awards in the US.