Martin Luther has said, “If you want to change the world, pick up your pen and write.” If not directly changing the world, one can surely do it by changing one's own life. We know the power of putting thoughts on paper through writing.
And, who doesn’t love their favorite authors who have the power to transport us to a different world? These writers enter our hearts as they relate with us through their stories. It is reading such relatable books that help us develop ideas, inculcate healthy changes, or just feel the emotions we want to feel.
About Eric Tinsay Valles
- Eric is the Director of the Poetry Festival in Singapore.
- Eric Tinsay Valles has published two poetry collections, A World in Transit (2011) and After the Fall: dirges among ruins (2014), for which he was shortlisted for the Singapore Literature Prize.
- He has co-edited six anthologies, Get Lucky (2015), Sg Poems 2015-2016 (2016), Anima Methodi (2018), The Nature of Poetry (2019), and The Atelier of Healing (2021), and A Given Grace (2021). In 2013, he won the Goh Sin Tub Creative Writing Competition Prize.
- He writes about the migrant experience and personal trauma with humor and empathy.
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