We are delighted to welcome Cat Chong as a visiting PhD student from Nanyang Technical University, Singapore. Based at IMH until the end of 2023, Cat is a poet, publisher, essayist, and medical humanities PhD student. Their work considers the intersections between genderqueerness, disability, and chronic illness within lyric hybrid-genre memoirs.
Based at IMH until the end of 2023, Cat (they/them) is a poet, publisher, essayist, and medical humanities PhD student. Their work considers the intersections between genderqueerness, disability, and chronic illness within lyric hybrid-genre memoirs.
Biography
Cat is a current recipient of the Nanyang President’s Graduate Scholarship at NTU, as well as a graduate of the Poetic Practice MA at Royal Holloway and a co-founder of the Crested Tit Collective. Their work has been presented at a number of conferences such as Contemporary Womxn’s Writing and the Medical Humanities, EcoImaginings, Criposium, and the Singapore Writer’s Festival, while their poetic work has been published in numerous international presses including Bad Betty, Flint Books, Ache Magazine, Permeable Barrier, Singapore Unbound, dis/content, Ethos Books, and Experiment-O. Their debut pamphlet Plain Air: An Apology in Transit was published by Broken Sleep Books in 2021 and their debut collection 712 stanza homes for the sun is forthcoming also with Broken Sleep Books in 2023.
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