A member of the Singapore Society of Writers (1997-2001), Gan 
                Yung Chyan writes his poems and travel articles under his 
                pseudonym Kucinta Setia. He started writing English books 
                in 1996. His first Singapore English poetry collection Odes 
                to Edibles: An Anthology of Singapore dialect poems is first 
                published by Seaview Press in Henley Beach, Australia, 
                in 1998. His second book AgricAsia-PERU, on the agricultural 
                trade and ties between Asia and Peru, will be published in 2002 
                by Firstfruits Publications in Singapore. His prose essays 
                such as Singapore's Stone Age and Nature Calls appeared in Silver 
                Kris, Singapore Airlines' Inflight Magazine. His notable poems 
                about travel, nature and heritage have also been published in 
                Laos, the US, Hong Kong and Madagascar as well as in Singapore. 
                
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