Joshua Ip attended Anglo-Chinese School (Independent) and Raffles Junior College before completing a degree in Creative Writing at the University of Pennsylvania.
[5] Ip's work in "sonnets from the singlish" has been described as building "a distinctly contemporary Singapore slant through the formalism of his verse",[6] and "[his] greatest strength lies in crafting these absurd scenarios, which vividly and concisely capture the gist of his philosophising.
"The collection brings together "a rich variety of poems by both established figures and newly emergent voices",[11] and "endeavors to imagine and create spaces for literature in Singapore.".
"[8] Ip won the Golden Point Award for Prose in 2013 for his short story, "The Man Who Turned Into a Photocopier",[15] and was first runner-up for Poetry in 2011.
[19][20] Recent editions reached an audience of 6,000 and included physical events such as MRT-based poetry readings [21][22] and performance-poetry-professional-wrestling hybrid performances.