Jerrold Yam is a Singaporean lawyer based in the City of London. He is the author of three poetry collections: Intruder (Ethos Books), Scattered Vertebrae (Math Paper Press) and Chasing Curtained Suns (Math Paper Press).

In 2024, Jerrold won the Cheltenham Poetry Prize and was shortlisted for the Bridport Prize for Poetry, the Magma Poetry Pamphlet Competition and The London Magazine Poetry Prize. He was a 2024 Writer-in-Residence at the UK’s National Centre for Writing, supported by Singapore’s National Arts Council.

His poems have been published in journals such as Poetry London, Magma, The London Magazine, The Rialto, Oxford Poetry, Prairie Schooner, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Washington Square Review and Third Coast. 

Additionally, his poems have been selected for anthologies such as Ten Poets Travel to the Dark Side of the Moon (Sidekick Books, 2025), Quiet Loving, Ravaging Search — 20 Years of QLRS (Word Image Books, 2021), Lines Spark Code (Ethos Books, 2017), We Contain Multitudes: Twelve Years of Softblow (Epigram Books, 2016), UNION (Ethos Books, 2015), Kulit: Asian Literature for the Language Classroom (Pearson, 2014) and Fatherhood (Emma Press, 2014).

Jerrold has been a featured author at literary festivals such as the Cheltenham Poetry Festival, Ledbury Poetry Festival, Poetry Festival Singapore and Singapore Writers Festival, educational institutions such as SOAS University of London, National University of Singapore, Raffles Institution and Anglo-Chinese School (Independent), and events such as Singapore Day in London and the Southbank Centre’s Festival of Love.

His poems, which are included in the Singapore-Cambridge GCE A-Level and O-Level syllabi, have been translated into Mandarin and Spanish.