A Bit About:
Stephanie Dogfoot, also known as Stephanie Chan, is a poet and law student from Singapore, currently based in London. She has been performing for 3 years ever since she walked into the Vancouver Poetry Slam on a whim and got sucked in. She was runner up in the Vancouver Queer Slam 2008 and was the Singapore Poetry Slam Champion of 2010. She went on to represent Singapore at the 3rd Annual Indian Ocean Poetry Slam on Reunion Island, where she competed with poets from various countries surrounding the Indian Ocean, from Botswana to Madagascar to Australia.
She currently performs in many locations around London. She has hosted a women’s spoken word night at the monthly Women’s Autonomous Nuisance Cafe at Passing Clouds and has helped to plan spoken word nights at the Really Free School.
She claims her poetry comes from the raising of an eyebrow at the absurdity of the world, being angry, being absurdly angry, making fun of at what makes her angry and growing up with a lot of animals. She believes her BA in Biology and Environmental Studies and current study of Law have greatly contributed to her pursuit of poetry, because most poets like nature and are good at making other people to believe what they want them to believe by manipulating words.
Her writing has been described as poetry for spiritual beings on a human journey. She believes this is something to be proud of. Proud enough to put on a website. She is all about documenting the human journey.
