“I am drawn to fun as a form of rigorous & necessary creative work, & right now character & persona poetry are useful openings to such joy.”

“When the sting wanes (as it always does) I push that wound harder and catch what erupts from it on the page. I find, more often than not, that what comes out is not blood but gold.”

“While dinner was served, members of YoungArts took the stage, showcasing their mastery of dance, poetry, and song with gripping performances.”

“I’m excited about taking up as much abundant, expansive space as possible in a world that expects me to fit into a single box based on what it reads about me on the page.”

“I was 21 & looking for something to die for.”

“Winters’ list of ‘youngest to’ accomplishments is impressive.”

“The juxtaposition of music and poetry conjured an intimate environment, allowing audience members to enter the vivid, urgent world of Winters’s latest collection.”

“It is not always the easiest thing in the world, but it is always worthwhile.”

“The work is valuable because it’s yours.”

“Poetry, beyond its beauty, should question our own biases, strive to reform laws.”

“I think a lot about myth as a very present thing and as a way of tying into the urgency of illness and the urgency of the body.”

“If the root of this book is silence, I hope the form is voice.”

“Singapore’s young female poets are not afraid to speak their minds, tackling sensitive topics from sexuality to life in prison.”

“This is an attempt, not to define the body, but to allow it space to breathe.”

“Despite the speaker warring with her father, it is a reconciliation with his violence, his fury, and—most importantly—repurposing that fury as her own to recreate home.”

“It is rare to find such a diverse array of speculative fiction with a South-east Asian twist.”

“SingLit is very much pushing literature into directions that are unexplored and experimental.”

“Every poem of hers is the definition of softness.”

“I haven’t failed yet. I have proved a lot of people wrong.”

“Poetry says: you can be still. It says: you are enough as you are.”