Shawn Hoo writes poetry and non-fiction, and is interested in exploring speculative histories and queer aesthetics. His poems have appeared in or are forthcoming in journals such as Voice & Verse Poetry Magazine and OF ZOOS, and anthologies such as A Luxury We Cannot Afford and EXHALE: An Anthology of Queer Singapore Voices. A recent graduate from Yale-NUS College, he won Second Prize for Poetry at the Yale-NUS Literary Awards (2020) and is the recipient of the Outstanding Capstone Prize in Literature for his senior thesis on HIV/AIDS in Singapore theatre. He is currently the Editor-at-Large for Singapore at Asymptote, and working on his first collection of poems. 

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Shawn Hoo writes poetry and non-fiction, and is interested in exploring speculative histories and queer aesthetics. His poems have appeared in or are forthcoming in journals such as Voice & Verse Poetry Magazine and OF ZOOS, and anthologies such as A Luxury We Cannot Afford and EXHALE: An Anthology of Queer Singapore Voices. A recent graduate from Yale-NUS College, he won Second Prize for Poetry at the Yale-NUS Literary Awards (2020) and is the recipient of the Outstanding Capstone Prize in Literature for his senior thesis on HIV/AIDS in Singapore theatre. He is currently the Editor-at-Large for Singapore at Asymptote, and working on his first collection of poems. 

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