Felix Cheong Singapore

Bio
National Arts Council’s Young Artist of the Year in 2000, Felix has published three books of poetry, including the third volume, Broken by the Rain (2003), which was shortlisted for the 2004 Singapore Literature Prize. He has also published a non-fiction book, Different (2005), and two teen detective novels, The Call from Crying House (2006) and The Woman in the Last Carriage (2007). He has been invited to read at writers’ festivals in Edinburgh, Sydney, Christchurch and Hong Kong, among other cities. The holder of a Master of Philosophy in Creative Writing from the University of Queensland, he is currently an adjunct lecturer and a freelance journalist.


What book would you like to snuggle under covers with, and why?
"My guilty pleasures are true crime books, a habit I picked up while researching for my third book of poetry, Broken by the Rain. I still snuggle under covers sometimes - shhh! - with titles like The A-Z Encyclopedia of Serial Killers. Nothing literary, just the gamut and guts of depravity. And I'd wonder, before I turn out the light: How distant they are, yet how near they seem."

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