Philip Holden is a Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at the National University of Singapore. He is the author of several books of literary criticism and history, focusing on auto/biography, and Singaporean and Southeast Asian literatures; these include the historical anthology Writing Singapore, co-edited with Angelia Poon and Shirley Geok-lin Lim. His short stories have been published in Wasafiri, The Carolina Quarterly, Prism International, QLRS and Cha. Holden has served as judge for both the Epigram Books Fiction Prize and the Singapore Literature Prize. Heaven Has Eyes is his first fiction collection.