Eileen Chong is a poet based in Sydney, Australia. She was born in Singapore of Hakka, Hokkien and Peranakan (Straits Chinese) descent.  Her poetry collections are Burning Rice (2012), Peony (2014), Painting Red Orchids (2016), and Rainforest (2018), all from Pitt Street Poetry, Sydney. Her most recent collection is A Thousand Crimson Blooms from the University of Queensland Press (2021). We Speak of Flowers is forthcoming from the University of Queensland Press in 2025. The poet Boey Kim Cheng has said that ‘Chong’s work offers a poetry of feeling, rendered in luminous detail and language, alive to the sorrows and joys of daily living.’