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Eileen Chong

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Eileen Chong was born in 1980, in Singapore. She moved to Sydney, Australia in 2007.

She won the Poets Union Youth Fellowship in 2010 and was an Australian Poetry Fellow for 2011-2012.

She was the poet-in-residence at the Royal Botanic Garden Sydney and the Bundanon Trust in 2016.

Her poetry collections are Burning Rice , Peony , Painting Red Orchids , and Rainforest , all from Pitt Street Poetry, Sydney.

Chong writes about food, family, migration, love and loss. The Singaporean-Australian poet Boey Kim Cheng has said that ‘Chong’s work offers a poetry of feeling, rendered in luminous detail and language, alive to the sorrows and joys of daily living.’

Awards & Achievements

Her books have been shortlisted for numerous awards, including the Anne Elder Award 2012 for a first book, the Australian Arts in Asia Award 2013, the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award 2017, and the Australian Prime Minister’s Literary Award 2013 and 2017.

Prizes individual poems of Chong’s have shortlisted for include the Ron Pretty Prize 2014, the Newcastle Poetry Prize 2016, and the Australian Book Review‘s Peter Porter Poetry Prize 2015 and 2017. She also longlisted for the University of Canberra’s Vice-Chancellor Award 2014, 2015 and 2016. Her poems are widely anthologised in Australian and international anthologies.

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Eileen Chong

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Books from Eileen Chong

A Thousand Crimson Blooms

Burning Rice

The Best Australian Poems 2015

The Best Australian Poems 2014

Painting Red Orchids

The Uncommon Feast

Rainforest

Tincture Journal, Issue Seventeen, Autumn 2017

Meanjin Spring 2018 (Vol. 77, Issue 3)

Peony

Griffith Review 83: Past Perfect

Past Perfect (Griffith Review, #83)