Felix Cheong (M.A. of Philosophy in Creative Writing) was the recipient of the National Arts Council's Young Artist of the Year for Literature Award in 2000. His three books of poetry are Temptation and Other Poems (1998), I Watch the Stars Go Out (1999) and Broken by the Rain (2003). His work has been published in newspapers, poetry websites, foreign journals and 6 anthologies of Singaporean poetry. In 2001, he was the only foreign writer to be invited to both the Brisbane Writers' Festival and the Queensland Poetry Festival. He also read at the 2002 Queensland Poetry Festival. As an editor, Felix helped put together Reshma Aquil's first collection of poetry Sleeping Wind (2001). He was also the guest-editor for a special feature on Singaporean poets in the Slope poetry website and Papertiger (a CDROM anthology published in Australia). A mentor under the NAC's Mentor Access Programme, Felix has conducted a number of creative writing workshops in schools in Brisbane and Singapore. As a literary activist, he has been actively involved in promoting Singaporean literature abroad. He was instrumental in organising and leading a Singapore contingent on 3 successful reading tours - The Philippines (January 2001), Australia (July 2001) and the US (April 2002).