Shou Jie Eng is a writer and architectural
designer, whose work addresses the spatial 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, CT. He received his MArch from the Rhode Island
School of Design.
His writing has appeared or is forthcoming in The
Los Angeles Review, Tupelo Quarterly, Posit, The Westchester Review,
SOFTBLOW, the anthologies New Singapore Poetries (Gaudy Boy),
Ritual
and Capital (Wendy’s Subway and Bard Graduate Centre), and elsewhere. He was a
finalist for the 2024 Kenyon Review Poetry Contest.
Alongside
his practice, Shou Jie teaches courses in architectural drawing and other
representational topics at the Rhode Island School of Design.
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Left Field Projects
RISD Architecture
Journals and Magazines
‘Animal Geometries’, ‘Storm King Wavefield, 2007-08’, ‘Why We Kept Relocating’, ‘In Graz’ in
Posit
(forthcoming)
‘On Subjectivity’ and three ‘Shoreline Sketches’ in
Public School Poetry
(forthcoming)
‘Ghazal Across a Series of Construction Lines Marked
A' through
G' ’ in
Grist
(forthcoming)
‘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
‘Three Ghosts’ in the
Singapore Unbound SP Blog
‘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
‘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)