Grace Chia

Who is Grace Chia?

Grace Chia is a Singaporean writer, poet, journalist and editor. She has published two non-fiction books and two full-length poetry books: Cordelia was published by Ethos Books in 2012; and womango was published by Rank Books in 1998.

womango engages confessional poetry, poetic prose, concrete poetry and performance poetry to explore themes of identity politics from an Asian, female point of view. In his review of the book at Goodreads, Jason Erik Lundberg described it as: "phenomenal kinetic intensity underlies each of these poems...plumbing the depths of sexual psyche or gleefully experimenting with typography. A strong feminist strain pulls the book together, and her facility with imagery and symbolism makes the words leap with energy."

Her poetry and short stories have been anthologised in literary journals and educational textbooks in Singapore, the US, Australia, Germany, France, and Serbia, including Singapore Literature in English: An Anthology, Understanding Literature, Mining for Meaning, Merlion: An Anthology of Poems, Fish Eats Lion, SilverKris, Di-Verse-City, HOW2, Stylus Poetry Journal, die horen, La Traductiere and Knijzevne Novine.

She edited a selection of poetry by women from and living in Singapore for an edition of HOW2, an online journal based in Arizona State University.