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Adjunct Lecturer
Qualifications:
MFA (Creative Writing)
MTS (World Religions)
BA (Sociology & Mass Communication)
Contact:
+65 6460 8663
Email:
dek@np.edu.sg |
Desmond Kon has edited more than 10 books and co-produced 3 audio books, several pro bono for non-profit organisations including Sok Sabay Cambodia, Riding for the Disabled Association, and the National Volunteer & Philanthropy Centre.
His work in entertainment and lifestyle journalism at 8 Days magazine took him to Australia, France, Hong Kong and Spain, and saw him writing numerous stories, including features on Madonna, Björk and Morgan Freeman, culminating in the authorship of the limited edition Top Ten TCS Stars for Caldecott Publishing.
Trained in Professional Publishing (Books) at Stanford University, with a Master of Theological Studies (World Religions) from Harvard University and Master of Fine Arts (Creative Writing) from the University of Notre Dame, Desmond is the recipient of the Singapore Internationale Grant, awarded to launch at the First Prague International Poetry Festival the anthology For the Love of God, which brought together 35 award-winning religious and literary contributors from across the world.
His poetry and prose have appeared in more than 30 literary journals including AGNI, Confrontation, Faultline, Gulf Coast, Harvard Review, New Orleans Review, The Pinch, Seneca Review, Sonora Review and Versal.
Through his Potter Poetics Collection, Desmond has also designed and sculpted ceramic pieces to commemorate the Dalai Lama’s 50th Year of Exile, Gerard Manley Hopkins’ 120th Anniversary, Thomas Merton’s 40th Anniversary, Edgar Allan Poe’s Bicentennial, Swami Abhishiktananda’s 100th Birth Anniversary, Cave Canem’s 10 Years of Service to African American Poets, Grolier Poetry Bookshop’s 80 Years of Service as the Oldest Continuous Poetry Bookstore in the US, and Poet Lore’s 120th Anniversary as the Oldest Continuously Published Poetry Magazine in the US. These works are housed in museums and private collections in India, the UK and the US.
At Ngee Ann Polytechnic, Desmond has twice received the Departmental Teaching Award, as well as the Dr Hiew Siew Nam Distinguished Academic Award. Editor of the institution’s 40th Anniversary Commemorative Publication NP40, he co-edited Above & Beyond in 2009 for its 45th Anniversary Celebrations.
With interdisciplinary scholastic interests, Desmond likes to mine the limits of literary experience, to reimagine them in attempting to discover newer forms he then ventures to work in.
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