Abdul Hamid bin Roslan

Author

Singapore

Hamid Roslan will tell you that he wrote parsetreeforestfire (Ethos Books, 2019), which was nominated for the 2020 Singapore Literature Prize. He'll also say that his other work can be found in the Asian American Writers Workshop, Asymptote, The Volta, Of Zoos, and the Quarterly Literary Review Singapore, among others. He might be a writer who performs his work, but he won't call himself a spoken word poet. His work is instead interested in language(s), translation and performance.

In another life, he worked at the National Arts Council after graduating from Yale-NUS College in 2017. He’s still recovering from being a bureaucrat, but thinks there might be a way to integrate his experiences as an arts administrator and author into something more exciting than the sum of its parts. These days, he's preparing to pursue a Masters in Fine Arts in Writing at Pratt Institute.