Eileen Chong

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Eileen Chong is a contemporary Australian poet.

Biography[]

Eileen Chong was born in 1980, in Singapore. She moved to Sydney, Australia in 2007.

She won the Poets Union Youth Fellowship in 2010 and was an Australian Poetry Fellow for 2011-2012.

She was the poet-in-residence at the Royal Botanic Garden Sydney and the Bundanon Trust in 2016.

Chong’s first collection of poetry, Burning Rice, is on the New South Wales’ English syllabus (Extension-1) for the Higher School Certificate from 2019-2023.

In 2019 Rainforest (Pitt Street Poetry) was shortlisted for the NSW Premier's Literary Awards, Multicultural Award.^[1]

Selected bibliography[]

Burning Rice (single author poetry collection). Chong, Eileen. 2012. Australian Poetry New Voices Series 2012, Melbourne, Australia. Reprinted 2013. Pitt Street Poetry, Sydney, Australia.

Peony (single author poetry collection). Chong, Eileen. 2014. Pitt Street Poetry, Sydney, Australia.

Painting Red Orchids (single author poetry collection). Chong, Eileen. 2016. Pitt Street Poetry, Sydney, Australia.

Another Language (single author selected poems). Chong, Eileen. Foreword by Paul Kane. 2017. George Braziller, New York City, USA.

The Uncommon Feast (single author essays, poems, and recipes). Chong, Eileen. 2018. Introduction by Judith Beveridge. Illustrations by Colin Cassidy. Recent Work Press, Canberra, Australia.

Rainforest (single author poetry collection). Chong, Eileen. 2018. Pitt Street Poetry, Sydney, Australia.

Map-Making (collaborative limited edition hardcover book). Poems by Chong, Eileen. Photographs by Winfred, Charlene. 2018. Potts Point Press, Sydney, Australia.

Dark Matter (single author poetry chapbook). Chong, Eileen. 2018. International Poetry Studies Institute, with Recent Work Press, Canberra, Australia.

A Thousand Crimson Blooms (single author poetry collection). Chong, Eileen. 2021. University of Queensland Press, Brisbane, Australia.

References[]

External links[]

• Eileen's page at Pitt Street Poetry: http://pittstreetpoetry.com/eileen-chong
• Boey Kim Cheng reviews Burning Rice at Mascara Literary Review: http://mascarareview.com/kim-cheng-boey-reviews-burning-rice-by-eileen-chong/^{[permanent dead link]}
• Boey Kim Cheng reviews Peony at Cordite: http://cordite.org.au/reviews/boey-chong/
• Geoff Page reviews Painting Red Orchids at Mascara Literary Review: http://mascarareview.com/geoff-page-reviews-painting-red-orchids-by-eileen-chong/
• Dan Disney reviews Painting Red Orchids at World Literature Today: http://www.worldliteraturetoday.org/2017/january/painting-red-orchids-eileen-chong
• Boey Kim Cheng reviews Painting Red Orchids and Rainforest on the Sydney Review of Books: https://sydneyreviewofbooks.com/chong-painting-red-orchids-rainforest/

Awards[]

• 2010: Poets Union Youth Fellowship, Australia
• 2012: Highly commended in the Anne Elder Award for Burning Rice, Australia
• 2013: Highly commended in the Australian Arts in Asia Awards for Burning Rice, Australia
• 2013: Shortlisted for the Prime Minister's Literary Awards for Poetry for Burning Rice, Australia
• 2017: Painting Red Orchids shortlisted for Victorian Premier's Literary Awards
• 2017: Painting Red Orchids shortlisted for the Prime Minister’s Literary Awards
• 2019: Rainforest shortlisted for the Multicultural Prize, New South Wales Premier's Literary Award

Judging[]

• 2013: Blake Poetry Prize (co-judge)
• 2017: Newcastle Poetry Prize (co-judge)
• 2017: Anne Elder Award (co-judge)
• 2018: New South Wales Premier's Literary Award, Kenneth Slessor Poetry Prize (co-judge)
• 2018: University of Canberra’s Vice-Chancellor’s International Poetry Prize (longlist judge)
• 2019: Mary Gilmore Prize (co-judge)
• 2020: New South Wales Premier's Literary Award, Kenneth Slessor Poetry Prize (co-judge)