Desmond Francis Xavier Kon (Zhicheng-Mingdé) is the author of an epistolary novel, a quasi-memoir, two lyric essay monographs, four hybrid works, nine poetry collections, and a guided creative journal. Among other accolades, Desmond is the recipient of the IBPA Benjamin Franklin Award, Independent Publisher Book Award, National Indie Excellence Book Award, Poetry World Cup, Singapore Literature Prize, and three Living Now Book Awards. He also helms Squircle Line Press.

• Essays : How Did Fish Become This Hour, This Narrative Memory?
• Poetry : Conversation on Mount Olivet
• Poetry : Lazarus the Friend of Christ: Larnaca Tomb Inscription
• Poetry : c is for contradiction
• Poetry : de haut en bas :: from high to low
• Poetry : Memory Ghost: A Villanelle
• Short Stories : Excerpts from Singular Acts of Endearment II
• Short Stories : Excerpts from Singular Acts of Endearment

_____