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 or is forthcoming in EPOCH, ANMLY, 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, National Poetry Competition, and the Bridport Prize. A Fall ’25 Brooklyn Poets Fellow, he has received support from the Kenyon Review Writers’ Workshop, Tin House, Fine Arts Work Centre in Provincetown, and the National Arts Council of Singapore. 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. He trained with Wild Rice’s Young & Wild programme, going on to act for stage and independent film, and is working on a play. 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. He holds a BA in Law from Cambridge, graduating with Double First Class Honours and topping his cohort in Labour Law. Contact him at christianyeoxuan@gmail.com.