Shou Jie Eng
Shou Jie Eng (he/him) is a poet and architectural designer, whose work addresses the spatial, material, and embodied narratives that are present in histories of coloniality and labour. 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, The Los Angeles Review, Meridian, Passages North, the anthology New Singapore Poetries (Gaudy Boy), and elsewhere. He has received support from the Kenyon Review Writers Workshop and was a finalist for the 2026 Best of the Net awards in poetry. His chapbook of poems, line weights, was a selection in the Sixth Finch Books Annual Chapbook Contest and is forthcoming in June 2026.
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.