Two to the Dark Tower Come

Yeow Kai Chai, co-editor of Quarterly Literary Review Singapore, has three poetry collections, Secret Manta (2001), Pretend I’m Not Here (2006), and One to the Dark Tower Comes (2020), which was awarded the 2022 Singapore Literature Prize. He also co-wrote The Adopted: Stories from Angkor (2015) and Lost Bodies: Poems Between Portugal and Home (2016). He has worked as editor-in-chief, entertainment editor and music reviewer in My Paper and The Straits Times and was the festival director of Singapore Writers Festival from 2015 to 2018. 

Clara Chow is the author of fiction collections Dream Storeys (2016), Modern Myths (2018, and shortlisted for 2020 Singapore Literature Prize) and Not Great, But At Least Something (2021). Under her independent Hermit Press, she produced travelogues New Orleans (2020) and Caves (2020), as well as the bilingual 几首烂情诗 / Lousy Love Poems (2021). A former journalist, she has been writer-in-residence at Toji Cultural Center and the University of Iowa. Her latest book is the prose chapbook, There is No Why, Only.