Heng Siok Tian has published three collections: Crossing the Chopsticks and Other Poems (1993) My City, My Canvas (1999) and Contouring (2004). She has been published in Harvest International (2006/2007), Idea to Ideal (2004), Love Gathers All: A Philippines-Singapore Anthology of Love Poems (2002), No Other City: An Anthology of Urban Poetry (2000), More Than Half the Sky (1998), Journeys: Words, Home and Nation (1995), The Calling of the Kindred (1993), Singapore: Places, Poems, Paintings (1992), New Voices in Southeast Asia (1991) and Words for the 25th (1990). One of her short stories has been translated into Italian for a collection of Singapore short stories published by Isbn Edizioni (2005). Her short play, The Lift, staged in 1991, was selected to be read at the Third International Women Playwrights’ Conference in Adelaide in 1994. In 2000, she attended the Iowa International Writing Program at the University of Iowa, USA on a National Arts Council Fellowship. In 2007, she was one of four writers attending the Ars Interpres Festival in Stockholm, Sweden. [Read]