Lew Poo Chan, better known by her pen name Dan Ying, is a Chinese-Singapore poetess and a Chinese language lecturer at National University of Singapore where she retired in 2003. Her published works included Poems of Taiji (1979), Time Passing Through My Hairs (1993), The Human World Affairs (2012) and The Road of Poetry (2017). She has won many literary prizes including two National Book Development Council of Singapore’s Book Awards for poetry, the 1995 Southeast Asia Write Award and 1996 Singapore Cultural Medallion.