21 Facts About Alvin Pang

Alvin Pang is a Singaporean poet, editor and writer.

Alvin Pang received the Young Artist Award in 2005 by the National Arts Council Singapore.

Alvin Pang holds a First Class Honours degree in English literature from the University of York.

Alvin Pang was a University of Iowa International Writing Program Fellow in Writing, and a Civitella Ranieri Fellow in 2022.

Alvin Pang is listed in the Oxford Companion to Modern Poetry in English.

Alvin Pang is the co-editor of the seminal work No Other City: The Ethos Anthology of Urban Poetry, one of the Straits Times' Top Ten Books for 2000 and a key text on university syllabuses.

Alvin Pang was the Featured Poet in the Spring 2002 issue of the Atlanta Review, a journal which counts Nobel Prize laureates Seamus Heaney and Derek Walcott among its contributors; he is among the select few poets celebrated in its 10th Anniversary edition.

Alvin Pang's work has been featured in publications such as The Wolf, English Review, Salt, Paper Tiger, Australian Poetry Journal, Bonnier's Literary Magazine, Slope, Washington Square Review, Quarterly Literary Review Singapore, Interlogue: Studies in Singapore Literature, and RHYTHMS: The Millennium Anthology of Singapore Poetry, for which he was the English Language Poetry Editor.

Alvin Pang's poetry has appeared at the Poetry Society and Poetry Library in London; and has been staged by professional theatre companies in the US, Malaysia and Singapore.

Alvin Pang's poetry have been translated into more than 20 languages.

Alvin Pang served on the organising committees of the Singapore Writer's Festival in 1997,1999,2001 and 2003.

Alvin Pang was the 2009 Poet-In-Residence at Raffles Institution, his father's and his alma mater.

Alvin Pang has made several international appearances in support of Singaporean writing.

Alvin Pang led a delegation of Singapore writers to Australia in July 2001 and another to the Austin International Poetry Festival in April 2002.

Alvin Pang featured at the 2003 Edinburgh International Book Festival and the 2006 Sydney Writer's Festival as an invited international poet.

Alvin Pang has read at literary festivals and events in Albany, Bali, Byron Bay, Cape Town, Darwin, Finland, Geraldton, Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur, London, Ledbury, the Philippines, Perth, Adelaide, Melbourne, Slovenia, L'viv, Zagreb and elsewhere.

Alvin Pang has contributed an occasional column to the Straits Times commentary section on technology, culture, society and other issues.

In 2003, Alvin Pang co-founded The Literary Centre, a not-for-profit organisation dedicated to literary development, interdisciplinary capacity, multicultural communication, and positive social change, which he continues to direct.

Alvin Pang serves on the international editorial board of Axon, a peer-reviewed journal that focuses on the characteristics of creativity and the creative process.

Alvin Pang consults on web, editorial and strategic communications, and research for a range of corporate and public sector organisations, and facilitates training and development programmes for schools and broader audiences.

Alvin Pang is Editor-in-Chief of a professional public sector journal, Ethos.