​I was born in Singapore but have spent the 12 years since the passing of my mother exploring what it means to be between worlds. My work moves between languages of body and sound which act as vessels for remythologising. Words are an ocean, carrying meaning across waves so that shores can speak to each other. Through poetic reworlding— essentially when performance is image taking form in ritual recalibration of current reality— I hope to birth new fantasies into form for the collective.

In recent years, my research and practice have been most influenced by indigenous philosophies, feminist and political theory, spiritual inquiry, and contemporary poetics. My current explorations engage looping, movement, and voice as methods of deconstruction— where poetry becomes sound, and sound becomes a body.

Over the course of my career I have spoken on TEDx Singapore twice, been commissioned by The Esplanade theatre, the Barcelona International Poetry Festival, been invited to perform or be a resident in places like Wonderfruit (TH), The Watermill Center (NY) and Literarisches Colloquium Berlin. I have also toured with or opened for poet-artists like Sarah Kay, Luka Lesson, Anthony Anaxagorou, and Alok Vaid-Menon, and have won poetry slams up to state level in Singapore, New Zealand, Australia, and Germany. I am currently a performing artist-in-residence at the National Gallery Singapore until January 2026.

There are three books I have released— When I Giggle in My Sleep (2015), Rebel Rites (2016), and Genesis: Visual Poetry Collection (2018)— and my writing has appeared in publications by The Straits Times, Math Paper Press, Ethos Books, Guernica (US) and Penguin Random House (IN). My most recent release, Rib/Cage (2025), is a folio published by Afterimage Press in collaboration with Rosaly Putchechary and Zeha.

Beyond the page, I have released multiple music albums and sound works with projects such as Mantravine and Polymorphism, performing internationally at music festivals and venues across Europe, Asia, and Oceania. I'm also the winner of I Can See Your Voice Singapore episode 9 and the Channel News Asia host of Show Me The City S1. This year I sang for the president in the President’s Challenge Night concert as an advocate for change within prison rehabilitation structures. System redesign and hope for a different structural reality at all levels of society is one of the things I hope for the collective and advocate for in all my work. We are not free until we are all free.

 

May we all be liberated— one breath, one word, one act at a time.​