Biography

Originally from Singapore, Kagan Goh is a Vancouver-based Chinese Canadian multidisciplinary artist: award-winning filmmaker, published author, spoken word poet, mental health advocate and activist. Kagan is a well-known spoken word artist, essayist and poet, a respected and established voice in Vancouver's literary community for over three decades. He has been invited to perform at readings, festivals and on radio. Kagan Goh is the son of Goh Poh Seng-Singapore literary pioneer, poet, novelist, and playwright. In 2012, Select Books in Singapore published his poetic memoir, focused upon his relationship with his esteemed father, Who Let in the Sky? Kagan Goh is an award-winning filmmaker with a number of releases including the following films: Mind Fuck (1996); Stolen Memories (2012); Breaking the Silence (2015); and The Day My Cat Saved My Life (2021); and Common Law (2024). His films have been broadcast on national television and gained entry into respected film festivals around the world. Kagan Goh's follow-up memoir, Surviving Samsara, which recounts his struggles with manic depression, breaking the silence around mental illness, was published by Caitlin Press in 2021. Surviving Samsara was also shortlisted for the Singapore Literature Prize in 2022 in the creative nonfiction in English category. Kagan Goh is adapting his memoirs Surviving Samsara and Who Let in the Sky? into a dramatic episodic TV series entitled A Delicate Imbalance.
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