About

Laetitia Keok is a writer and editor from Singapore.

Laetitia's recent body of work considers across intimacies, grief, borders, and collective responsibility. Her poetry has been placed for the Adrienne Rich Award for Poetry and the Oxford Poetry Prize, nominated for awards including a Pushcart Prize, Best New Poets, Best of the Net, and is published or forthcoming in Narrative Magazine, Poetry Northwest, Split Lip Magazine, and elsewhere. Laetitia has received honours and support from the National Arts Council of Singapore, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and Brooklyn Poets, amongst others. She edits for NYC-based literary press, Gaudy Boy, and international Sino creative arts magazine, Sine Theta Magazine.Currently based in Singapore, Laetitia holds an MFA in Poetry from New York University. She loves light.

Laetitia Keok is a writer and editor from Singapore.

Selected Publications

POETRY

Desire Path, Narrative Magazine (forthcoming)The Safest Place in the World, Brooklyn PoetsAn Exercise in Neutrality, Hajar PressIntimacy Study, Beloit Poetry Journal
Semifinalist for the 2024 Adrienne Rich Award for Poetry, judged by Marilyn ChinMinor Subjects, Split Lip Magazine
Nominated for Best of the Net 2026; Best New Poets 2026Abecedarian Against Time; Good Grief, Poetry NorthwestI Have Not Written a Poem in Months, Oxford Poetry
Shortlisted for the 2022 Oxford Poetry Prize, judged by Emily BerryObject Permanence, Longleaf Review
Nominated for the 2023 Nina Riggs Poetry AwardMaxwell Food Centre (1997), Wildness Journal

ANTHOLOGIES

The Hajar Book of Rage (Hajar Press, 2025)New Singapore Poetries (Gaudy Boy, 2022)

MISC

A Poem is a Garden, Co-sine NewsletterConversation with Jeremy Tiang, Sine Theta MagazineConversation with Yanyi, Sine Theta MagazineConversation with Jenny Qi, Sine Theta Magazine

FEATURES

Poetry as Attention, Intimacy, and Collective Responsibility — Ma's House PodcastPoet of the Week — Brooklyn Poets"There is Still Time": An Interview with Laetitia Keok — Longleaf ReviewYoung Writers' Episode — Micro Podcast (also featured on Literary Hub)

Laetitia Keok is a writer and editor from Singapore.

EDITORIAL

EXPERIENCECritical Editor, poetry.sg (2023-present)
Editor, Sine Theta Magazine (2021-present)
Assistant Editor, Gaudy Boy (2021-present)I provide editorial services including evaluation, assessment, developmental editing, proofreading and copyediting for book-length manuscripts and other portfolios of creative work, across the genres of poetry, fiction and non-fiction.In addition to my current roles, I curated and independently distributed two volumes of the poetry chapbook, A Poem is a Garden, and have held editorial positions at Accent Accent (NYC), Ethos Books (Singapore), The Slow Press (Singapore), amongst others.My editorial projects include winners of the Gaudy Boy Poetry Book Prize: Fablemaker by Mandy Moe Pwint Tu, winner of the Edna Meudt Poetry Book Contest, and Interrogation Records by Jeddie Sophronius, winner of the 2025 Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Poetry. My projects have also gone on to receive recognition in starred reviews, best-of lists, Pushcart Prizes, Forward Prizes, Best Small Fictions, Best New Poets, and other state and national awards.Please get in touch for my rates, past/current projects, complete CV etc.