Cirrus@Austlit

Stanley Sim arrived in Australia as a teenager in the mid-1980s. He lived in Perth, Western Australia, before moving to Adelaide in South Australia. He studied medicine at Adelaide University and worked as a general practitioner.

His first published poetry was in Friendly Street Poetry Reader 1995. He began using the pseudonym Shen in June 1996 but has continued to publish under both names. In 2002 he went on an Asialink cultural exchange visit to Vietnam to research, write and speak to literary groups.