Christina Sng

About

Christina Sng is a three-time Bram Stoker Award® and Elgin Award-winning poet, writer, essayist, and artist. Her work has appeared in numerous print and online venues worldwide and translated into six languages. She is the author of A Constellation of Songs (Origami Poems Project), Catku (Allegra Press), 2017 Elgin Award nominee An Assortment of Sky Things (Allegra Press), 2018 Elgin Award runner-up Astropoetry (Hiraeth Publishing), 2017 Bram Stoker Award® winner A Collection of Nightmares (Raw Dog Screaming Press), 2020 Bram Stoker Award® winner and 2021 Elgin Award runner-up A Collection of Dreamscapes (Raw Dog Screaming Press), the 2021 Bram Stoker Award®-winning collaborative poetry collection Tortured Willows: Bent, Bowed, Unbroken with Geneve Flynn, Lee Murray, and Angela Yuriko Smith, and 2024 Elgin Award winner The Gravity of Existence (Interstellar Flight Press).

Since 2001, her science fiction, horror, and fantasy poetry and fiction have been published across North America, the United Kingdom, Australia, and Singapore. These include Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, Aoife's Kiss, Apex Magazine, Astronomers Without Borders, Bare Bone, Beyond Centauri, Black Petals, Blood Rose, Bloodbond, ChiZine, Daily Science Fiction, Dark Animus, Disturbed Digest, Dreams and Nightmares, Electric Velocipede, Eye to the Telescope, Fantastic Stories of the Imagination, Flesh & Blood, Grievous Angel, Hadrosaur Tales, Heroic Fantasy Quarterly, Illumen, The Journal, Jupiter Magazine, LONTAR, Lunatic Chameleon, The Martian Wave, Mythic Delirium, NewMyths.com, Night to Dawn, Outposts of Beyond, The Pedestal Magazine, Penny Dreadful, Penumbric, Poe Little Thing, Polu Texni, Scifaikuest, Space & Time, Spaceports & Spidersilk, Spectral Realms, Star*Line, Story House, Tales of the Talisman, Trunk Stories, The Washington Post, Weird Tales, Wicked Hollow, and Yellow Bat Review.

From late 2015, Christina began to study haiku, finding it immensely beautiful and therapeutic. She writes short form poems to document her thoughts and days. Her haiku, senryu, haiga, and tanka have since received numerous honours and accolades, including winning the 2018 Jane Reichhold International Prize and the Third Annual Jane Reichhold Memorial Haiga Competition. Her work has appeared all around the world in journals such as A Hundred Gourds, Akisame, Akitsu Quarterly, Asahi Haikuist, bear creek haiku, cattails, Cricket, Failed Haiku, Frameless Sky, Frogpond, Haikuniverse, Haiku Masters, hedgerow, Mayfly, otata, Prune Juice, Ribbons, Shamrock, The Bamboo Hut, The Cicada's Cry, and Wild Plum, among others.

As an artist, she paints in pastel, oil, watercolour, and ink. In 2017, she began to market her art to magazines. Her oil painting "The Last Day" appeared on the cover of Gnarled Oak in January 2018 and her black and white watercolour painting "Waiting Together" was the cover art for Dreams and Nightmares #109, which is incidentally, the same magazine that gave her her first two poetry sales back in 2000. In November 2019, her paintings were exhibited for the first time: "Voyage to Save the World" in the Fox Poetry Box in Illinois, USA, and "Love Moon" and "Love Myself" in the LOVE STORIES Art Exhibition in Singapore.

Christina is an avid gardener and an accomplished musician, and can be found most days in a dark corner deadheading her flowers while humming Vivaldi to the swaying branches.