Shou Jie Eng



Shou Jie Eng (he/him) is a writer and architectural designer, whose work addresses the spatial, material, and embodied narratives that are present in histories of labour and cultures of craft. Originally from Singapore, he runs Left Field Projects, a multi-disciplinary design practice located in Hartford, Connecticut. He received his MArch from the Rhode Island School of Design.

His writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Bennington Review, Harvard Review, Jet Fuel Review, The Los Angeles Review, the anthology New Singapore Poetries (Gaudy Boy), and elsewhere. In 2025, he placed on the list of commendations for the Gregory Djanikian Scholarships at The Adroit Journal, and his chapbook, We Carry These Bones to Market, was selected as a finalist for the Helena Whitehill Book Award by Tupelo Press.

Alongside his practice, Shou Jie is a Critic at the Rhode Island School of Design, where he teaches courses on architectural drawing and other representational topics.


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Journals and Magazines

Two ‘Building Codes’ in Bennington Review (forthcoming)

‘On Subjectivity (Springfield, Massachusetts)’ in Harvard Review (forthcoming)

‘Mnemonic: Clothing’ and ‘Mnemonic: Cartography’ in Jet Fuel Review (forthcoming)

‘Animal Geometries’,‘Storm King Wavefield, 2007-08’,‘Why We Kept Relocating’,‘In Graz’ in Posit (forthcoming)

‘Cold Season Diptychs: New England // Singapore’ in The Emerson Review (forthcoming)

‘Ghazal Across a Series of Construction Lines Marked A' through G'’ in Grist

‘On Subjectivity’ and three ‘Shoreline Sketches’ in Public School Poetry

‘Shoreline Sketch’ in Kitchen Table Quarterly

‘Jeanne-Claude’ and ‘Extractive Capital, Found in Two Folios at the Whaling Museum’ in The Westchester Review

‘On Learning that Chiquita Brands Financed Paramilitary Killings in Colombia’ in The Los Angeles Review

‘Ode to a Small Wood Model, Made Up Over the Weekend’ in the tiny journal

‘Our Building Remembers’ and ‘EWR’ in Common Ground Review

‘Lay Like Rope Across the Deck, Stranded’ in Cathexis Northwest

‘Four Divers’ in SOFTBLOW Poetry Journal

‘Four Divers’ in Tupelo Quarterly with an introduction by Seth Brady Tucker

‘Hopkins House Condominium Association’ in Speculative Nonfiction

‘Three Ghosts’ in The Ekphrastic Review

‘I leave at eleven in the morning, and return at midnight’ in the Singapore Unbound SP Blog


Anthologies

New Singapore Poetries (New York, NY: Gaudy Boy)

The Earth Of: Writing Through a Time of Rupture (Averill Park, NY: Arts Letters & Numbers)

Urgency Reader 2 (Providence, RI: Queer.Archive. Work)

Ritual and Capital (New York, NY: Wendy’s Subway and Bard Graduate Centre)


Essays

‘On three poems by Alison Swan’ in Public School Poetry

‘Christine’s Shining Stones’ in CARTHA Magazine (pdf)

‘Simultanaeity in the City of Ladies’ in Paprika!

‘Disciplinary Candy’ in Paprika!

‘recordings:detroit and the Geographies of Collaborative Work’ in We Begin When We Finish When We Begin (Providence, RI: Rhode Island School of Design)