Laetitia Keok is a writer and editor from Singapore.
Selected Publications
ANTHOLOGIES
POETRY
Intimacy Study, Beloit Poetry Journal (forthcoming)
Semifinalist for the 2024 Adrienne Rich Award for Poetry, judged by Marilyn Chin
Minor Subjects, Split Lip Magazine (forthcoming)
Abecedarian Against Time; Good Grief, Poetry Northwest
I Have Not Written a Poem in Months, Oxford Poetry
Shortlisted for the 2022 Oxford Poetry Prize, judged by Emily Berry
Object Permanence, Longleaf Review
Nominated for the 2023 Nina Riggs Poetry Award
Maxwell Food Centre (1997), Wildness Journal
Footnotes on Dying; Love Language Bingo, Diode Poetry Journal
PROSE
Little Acts of Haunting, Peach Mag
Facts of Life, X-R-A-Y Lit Mag
Stay Here with Me, The Slow Press
Memorabilia, Literary Shanghai
MISC
A Poem is a Garden, Co-sine Newsletter
Conversation with Jeremy Tiang, Sine Theta Magazine
Thesis Diaries, Co-sine Newsletter
Multiverse Daydreams, Co-sine Newsletter
Conversation with Yanyi, Sine Theta Magazine
Sitting with Grief, Ethos Books Attunements
Conversation with Jenny Qi, Sine Theta Magazine
Appearances
FEATURES
"There is Still Time": An Interview with Laetitia Keok — Longleaf Review
Young Writers' Episode — Micro Podcast (also featured on Literary Hub)
EVENTS
Brooklyn Poets Summer Fellows Showcase
New York City, Brooklyn Poets— 1 August 2025
The Long Crescendo: 10 Years of Half Mystic
New York City, Selva — 11 July 2025
Poetry at Sunnyside Arts: reading & open mic
New York City, Sunnyside Arts Collective — 20 June 2025
Speak, Light: Accent Sisters Summer Reading Series
New York City, Accent Sisters — 13 June 2025
Five Go To An Island: a poetry reading & open mic
Singapore, Thryft Books — 21 December 2024
NYU Emerging Writers Reading Series
New York City, Lillian Vernon Creative Writer's House — 1 November 2024
Lactose Intolerant Reading Series
New York City, Word Bookstores — 22 September 2024
Dink Collective: May-ke or Break
Singapore, UltraSuperNew Gallery — 19 May 2023
What's New? (4) / About New Singapore Poetries
Singapore, Yale-NUS College — 07 February 2023
ReadNUS Kopi Talks: Publishing in Singapore
Online, Zoom — 10 January 2023
Riverside Reading: Poetry with Mary Jean Chan & Friends
Singapore, The Projector X: Riverside Point — 21 August 2022
The Gaudy Boy Reading + Mini-Panel on Publishing
Singapore, Crane Club — 14 July 2022
Longleaf Review, Spring/Summer Issue Virtual Launch Party
Online, Zoom — 13 June 2022