Christian Yeo Xuan (he/they) is a writer and actor based in Singapore by way of Paris and Beirut. His work has been published by Oxford Poetry, Indiana Review, The Hajar Book of Rage, and New Singapore Poetries, among others. He won the Arthur Sale Poetry Prize, and has placed or been a finalist for the National Poetry Competition, the Poetry London Pamphlet Prize, the Bridport Prize, and NYU’s Washington Square Review New Voices Award. A Fall ’25 Brooklyn Poets Fellow, he has received support from the Kenyon Review Writers’ Workshop, Tin House, Berlin Writers’ Workshop, and the National Arts Council. Christian is querying a novel, which was a finalist for the 2024 Kenyon Review Developmental Editing Fellowship, as well as a full-length poetry collection, from which his chapbook received an Honourable Mention from BPJ’s Chad Walsh Chapbook Series. After acting in Cambridge theatre’s second and third ever Southeast Asian plays, he trained with Wild Rice’s Young & Wild programme, going on to act for independent film. He is working on two plays. In his other life, he is a civil legal aid litigator largely representing victims of domestic violence. He previously worked on AI safety for the UN.
