Boey Kim Cheng

Boey Kim Cheng was born in Singapore in 1965, but has lived most of his life in Australia. He began writing in Secondary School and published his first poetry collection ‘Somewhere-Bound’ (1989) when studying at the National University of Singapore. It won the National Book Development Council Award in 1989. ‘Another Place’ (1992) was published next. ‘Days of No Name’ (1996), won the the Singapore Literature Prize in 1995. In 1996, Boey was given the Young Artist Award.

Boey published ‘After the Fire: New and Selected Poems’ (2006), and a travel memoir entitled Between Stations (2009), which was shortlisted for the W.A. Premier’s Literary Award for Nonfiction. Clear Brightness (2012), was published in Australia.

Boey co-founded Mascara Literary Review, an Australian literary journal aiming to promote Asian Australian writing. In 2013, Boey returned to Singapore as a writer-in-residence, and is currently Associate Professor in English.