Philip Joseph Holden

See also: Philip Holden.

Philip Holden was born in Boston in 1962. He grew up in the United Kingdom, and has lived and studied in London, the United States, China, Canada and Taiwan. In 1994 he moved to Singapore, and he currently teaches literary studies at the National University of Singapore.

He is the author of several books of literary criticism and history, focusing on auto/biography, and Singaporean and Southeast Asian literatures; these include the historical anthology Writing Singapore, co-edited with Angelia Poon and Shirley Geok-lin Lim. His short stories have been published in Wasafiri, The Carolina Quarterly, Prism International, QLRS and Cha. Holden has served as Vice President of the Singapore Heritage Society, and Deputy Direc

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