Jee Leong Koh is the author of four books of poems, including The Pillow Book, shortlisted for the Singapore Literature Prize. A new book, Steep Tea, is forthcoming from Carcanet Press (UK) in July 2015. Born and raised in Singapore, Koh now lives in New York City, where he curates the arts website Singapore Poetry, and runs the Second Saturdays Reading Series, and the Singapore Literature Festival in New York.