Jen Crawford is coordinator of the Creative Writing Program and the Singapore Writing Residency Programme at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. She is a New Zealander who writes poetry, and occasionally short fiction and criticism. Her most recent collections of poetry are Bad appendix, Pop riveter and Napoleon swings. Individual poems can be found in Shearsman, Jacket2, Mascara Literary Review, Brief, softblow, Jacket, and Landfall. She holds a PhD in Creative Arts (Writing) from the University of Wollongong, Australia.