Jee Leong Koh is the author of Steep Tea (Carcanet), named a Best Book of 2015 by Financial Times, and a Finalist by Lambda Literary. He has authored three other books of poems and a book of zuihitsu. His work has been shortlisted for the Singapore Literature Prize and translated into Japanese, Chinese, Russian, and Latvian. Originally from Singapore, he lives in New York City, where he edits the arts blog Singapore Poetry and runs the biennial Singapore Literature Festival in New York City.