Occupation Poet Role Poet | Name Eileen Chong Books Burning Rice, Peony | |
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Born 1980 | ||
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Eileen Chong is a contemporary Australian poet.
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- Biography
- Interviews
- Videos
- Awards
- References
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Biography
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 the Australian Poetry Fellow for 2011-2012. Her book, Burning Rice, was published in 2012 by Australian Poetry Limited in the New Voices Series 2012 and re-published in 2013 by Pitt Street Poetry. Her new collection, Peony, is also published by Pitt Street Poetry in 2014.
She has been mentored by the Australian poet. Judith Beveridge and Anthony Lawrence.
Her work has been published in Australian and Singaporean literary journals from 2008 and has also been collected in various anthologies.
Interviews
14 July 2011, 6 to 6.30pm with Justine Poon on 'Something Else' Podcast of interview can be streamed online at http://www.cpod.org.au/feed.php?id=308 (Last accessed 25 July 2011), or downloaded at http://www.cpod.org.au/download.php/6673.mp3
11 Dec 2013, Poets' Corner with Maisy Stapleton on Eastside Radio 89.7FM http://eastsidefm.org/2013/12/poets-corner/
Videos
Eileen Chong reads her poem 'Mid-Autumn Mooncakes' at the NSW Parliamentary Poetry Soiree 2010.
Eileen Chong reads at the Gun Club in Newcastle, 2 Oct 2011 as part of This is Not Art! festival. http://whenpressed.net/work/eileen-chong/reads-at-the-gun-club/