About

Christian Yeo Xuan is a writer based in Singapore by way of Paris and Beirut. His forthcoming chapbook, So Rain, won the 2025 Sundress Chapbook Competition. His work has been published in EPOCH, Sundog, The Madison Review, The Missouri Review, Indiana Review, Foglifter, Tupelo Quarterly, and Oxford Poetry, among others. He won the Arthur Sale Poetry Prize, and has placed or been a finalist for the Washington Square Review New Voices Award, Poetry London Pamphlet Prize, and the Bridport Prize. A Fall ’25 Brooklyn Poets Fellow, he has received scholarships from the Kenyon Review Writers’ Workshop, McCormack Writing Centre, and the Fine Arts Work Centre in Provincetown. Christian is querying a novel, which was a finalist for the 2024 Kenyon Review Developmental Editing Fellowship and Master’s Review Novel Excerpt Contest, as well as a full-length poetry collection. He trained with Wild Rice’s Young & Wild programme, going on to act for stage and independent film, and is working on a play. He holds a BA in Law from Cambridge.