CHENG HIM is an author of poetry and prose from Singapore. Their work has previously been published in Strange Horizons, the Willows Wept Review, the Kindling, the Quarterly Literary Review Singapore, the Neuro Logical, amongst a number of other publications. These largely happened due to luck taking pity on this author.

In 2023, by a stroke of divine providence, CHENG HIM was awarded an honourable mention in English Poetry for the Golden Point Award (2023) organised by Arts House Limited. Sadly, attempts to buy 4D and TOTO using numbers found at the award ceremony did not yield any substantial rewards.

CHENG HIM is descended from Cantonese, Hainanese, and Hakka migrants to Singapore. Their lineage is comprised of sailors, firemen, property agents, provision shop proprietors, and herb-drying medicine makers. They are nominally a Buddhist, with sprinklings of Taoism, and also a graduate of Singapore Polytechnic and Yio Chu Kang Secondary School.

CHENG HIM’s literary qualifications are woefully middling and not substantial. They have little to boast other than a track record of reading and publishing since 2014. Do contact them if you wish to decide for yourself if a collaboration with this author is a waste of time or not.