Toh Hsien Min (or Hsien Min Toh in Western name order) has published three collections of poetry, Iambus (Singapore, 1994), The Enclosure of Love (Singapore, 2001) and Means To An End (Singapore, 2008). His work has also been published in periodicals such as Acumen, Atlanta Review, London Magazine, the London Review of Books, Orbis, Oxford Poetry, 91st Meridian, Poetry Ireland Review. Poetry Salzburg Review and Staple, as well as anthologies such as the W.W. Norton Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia, and Beyond, Oxford-Cambridge May Anthologies, No Other City and Over There: Poems from Singapore and Australia.

He has been invited to international literary festivals such as the Edinburgh International Book Festival, the Ars Interpres Poetry Festival in Sweden, the Austin International Poetry Festival and the Queensland Poetry Festival, and has also taken an active part in the Singapore Writers' Festival since its 1993 Writers' Week incarnation.

Hsien Min is the founding editor of the Quarterly Literary Review Singapore (www.qlrs.com), the leading literary journal in Singapore. He has also been a recipient of the Shell-National Arts Council Scholarship for the Arts. Hsien Min read English at Keble College, Oxford, where he was also President of the Oxford University Poetry Society.

Hsien Min's professional exposure includes finance, property and venture capital. He holds Chartered Financial Analyst and Financial Risk Manager certifications.

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Last updated June 2008.