Suspect: Volume 1, Year 1

by Jee Leong Koh

In celebration of one year of publishing vital and diverse Asian writing and art, VOLUME 1, YEAR 1 brings selected works from our online journal into print.

Brimming with voices at once manifold yet singular, VOLUME 1, YEAR 1 showcases a selection of Asian writers and creators hailing from Canada, China, India, Israel, Malaysia, Singapore, the UK, the US, and elsewhere. The anthology, which celebrates one year of SUSPECT journal’s digital publishing, offers new perspectives from emerging literary voices. Boldly, yet always compassionately, these contributors demand of their readers an imagination expansive enough to sprawl borders, formal conventions, diverse subjectivities, and lives recorded from the margins.

Where the anthology foregrounds global perspectives—from translations of poetry documenting Kazakhstan political strife to explorations of transnational Asian American identity—it also lives in the personal, minute, and intimate experiences of daily lives.

164 pages, Paperback

Published February 20, 2023

About the author

Jee Leong Koh is the author of Steep Tea (Carcanet), named a Best Book of the Year by UK's Financial Times and a Finalist by Lambda Literary in the USA. His hybrid work of fiction, Snow at 5 PM: Translations of an insignificant Japanese poet, won the 2022 Singapore Literature Prize in English fiction. He was also shortlisted for the prize for The Pillow Book (Math Paper Press/Awai Books) and Connor and Seal (Sibling Rivalry). His second Carcanet book, Inspector Inspector, was published in late 2022.

Koh's work has been translated into Japanese, Chinese, Malay, Vietnamese, Russian, and Latvian. Originally from Singapore, Koh lives in New York City, where he heads the literary non-profit Singapore Unbound, the indie press Gaudy Boy, and the journal of Asian writing and art SUSPECT.