Author: Eric Tinsay Valles
Born: 1968
Bio: Eric Tinsay Valles is an English teacher at the National University of Singapore High School. He has published notable work in poetry (his collection A World in Transit has been released by Ethos Books; his work has appeared also in Routledge’s New Writing: The International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing, the Hispanic Culture Review [George Mason University], the National Arts Council (NAC)-published anthology Reflecting on the Merlion, & Words: Poems Singapore and Beyond, and Ceriph). His critical work on Singapore poetry is featured in The Creativity Market: Creative Writing in the 21st Century. He has been invited to read poetry or commentaries at the Universities of Melbourne, Chichester and Oxford. He won the British Council’s City Loves Writing and Hidden Skyline competitions on its Writing the City website in 2011. In June 2011, he took up a writing residency at the Vermont Studio Centre in the US with funding from the National Arts Council. He draws inspiration from all sorts of music and feeds off great writers (and souls) such as St. Augustine, Geoffrey Chaucer and Flannery O’Connor.