Janelle Tan is a Singaporean poet in New York City.

Janelle Tan was born in Singapore and lives in Brooklyn. She earned a BA from Smith College and an MFA in poetry from NYU, where she taught creative writing and was Web Editor for Washington Square Review. Her work appears or is forthcoming in Michigan Quarterly Review, No Tokens, The Southampton Review, Winter Tangerine, Nat. Brut, and elsewhere. She is a Brooklyn Poets fellow and Assistant Interviews Editor at Singapore Unbound.