Jee Leong Koh

Jee Leong Koh is a Singaporean writer, editor, and publisher living in New York City. His hybrid work Snow at 5 PM: Translations of an Insignificant Japanese Poet won the 2022 Singapore Literature Prize in English fiction. His book of poems Steep Tea (Carcanet) was named a Best Book of the Year by the Financial Times in the UK and a Finalist by Lambda Literary in the US. Other honors include being shortlisted twice for the Singapore Literature Prize in English poetry for The Pillow Book and...See more

Jee Leong Koh is a Singaporean writer, editor, and publisher living in New York City. His hybrid work Snow at 5 PM: Translations of an Insignificant Japanese Poet won the 2022 Singapore Literature Prize in English fiction. His book of poems Steep Tea (Carcanet) was named a Best Book of the Year by the Financial Times in the UK and a Finalist by Lambda Literary in the US. Other honors include being shortlisted twice for the Singapore Literature Prize in English poetry for The Pillow Book and Connor & Seal . His book reviews have appeared in the TLS , PN Review , and elsewhere. See less