There, where you write, everything grows, your body unfurls, your skin recounts its hitherto silent legends. – Helene Cixous
Marc Nair is an artist, educator and cultural entrepreneur from Singapore who is currently based in Toronto, Canada. A managing partner of The Creative Voice, he has organized indie literary festivals, developed walking tours and collaborated on diverse creative projects.
Over the past two decades, Marc’s practice in the literary arts has revolved around developing multidisciplinary approaches to writing and performance. He has published 12 collections of poetry and has worked with dancers, musicians, photographers and visual artists on a range of projects.
Marc’s list of authored and edited publications include Undulations (2025) The Earth in Our Bones (2023), Sightlines (2019), Handbook of Daily Movement (2019), Vital Possessions (2018), Auguries of Modern Innocence (2018), Intersection (2017), Spomenik (2016), This Is Not A Safety Barrier (2015), The Poet of Unlove (2015), Animal City (2014), Postal Code (2013), Chai: Travel Poems (2010), Along The Yellow Line (2007). He also co-authored The Good Gang (2025) with Carolyn Oei and Lin Shiyun, a collection of non-fiction stories of children from Tak Takut Kids Club in Singapore.
Sounds Like A Buzz, his third full-length spoken word album, was launched on all major streaming platforms in May 2022. It is accompanied by a limited-edition chapbook.
An experienced educator, Marc holds a PhD (D. Phil) from RMIT University, Australia. He has taught ‘A’ Level Literature and General Paper and was a Literary Arts teacher in the International Baccalaureate programme at SOTA. As a freelancer, he has developed a range of creative writing workshops that draw from various aspects of his practice. In the corporate world, Marc has worked as a photographer scriptwriter, VO talent and director on numerous shoots. He also collaborated with Singaporean media personality Lee Kin Mun, aka mrbrown, on the mrbrown show from 2007-2024, writing hundreds of satirical audio and video sketches and songs.