Aaron Lee is a pilgrim poet, writing mentor, community organiser and ethics lawyer. Born in Johor, Malaysia in 1972, he has lived for many years in Singapore. Lee is acknowledged to have played a key part in the late 1990s renaissance of Singapore poetry. His three books of poetry (including the Singapore Literature Prize shortlisted Five Right Angles (2007) and Coastlands published in 2014) are critically acclaimed. He also edited several books including the best-selling anthologies No Other City: the Ethos Anthology of Urban Poetry (2000), Love Gathers All: the Philippines-Singapore Anthology of Love Poetry (2002) and Lines Spark Code (2017). Lee was international writer-in-residence at the Toji Cultural Centre in 2016, and a featured international poet at the Perth Poetry Festival in 2018. He credits writers such as Wendell Berry, Mary Oliver and WS Merwin for his exploration of ecopoetics. In 2014 Lee and his wife, the national artist Namiko Chan Takahashi, co-founded the Laniakea Collective, an intercultural art practice.
