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JOANNE LEOW is Canada Research Chair and Associate Professor at Simon Fraser University. Her research interests lie at the intersections of spatial theory, decolonial theory, postcolonial studies, transnational and diasporic texts, and the environmental humanities. Her essays, fiction, and poetry have been published in Brick, Catapult, Evergreen Review, The Goose, Isle, The Kindling, The Town Crier, QLRS, and Ricepaper Magazine. Her first academic monograph is Counter-Cartographies- Reading Singapore Otherwise (Liverpool University Press, 2024), and her debut collection of poetry is Seas Move Away (Turnstone Press, 2022). Joanne Leow grew up in Singapore and lives on the unceded traditional territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wo7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwəta_x026C_ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.
Featured in Quill and Quire’s 2026 Spring Preview • A Globe and Mail Spring 2026 Read “This book is an epic unmasking. With an ornate structure that brings together research, theory, history, literature, and the sand of Joanne Leow’s own memory, Exhumations dissects Singapore’s architecture—an architecture of concrete and land, but also of technology, unnatural horticulture, and narrative control. In doing so, it rivals any of Singapore’s staggering creations.” —Thea Lim, author of An Ocean of Minutes “In this vital excavation of a city-state’s gleaming lies, Joanne Leow traces what accumulates: the petroleum beneath every perfect surface, the seized sand, the police state’s quiet grip on every throat. With great care, she shows us the hands that built this world, the bodies made porous by contamination, the dissident gestures of those who refuse—a doctor, an activist elder, an artist. Here, in the flickering space between complicity and resistance, Leow reveals that no system can be total and no hold can last forever. Exhumations is a profound and beautiful reminder to find the gaps.” —Kyo Maclear, Governor General’s Literary Award-winning author of Unearthing and Birds, Art, Life
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