Education
In 1978, he attended the University of Iowa"s International Writing Program and was a Fulbright Scholar in 1995.
In 1978, he attended the University of Iowa"s International Writing Program and was a Fulbright Scholar in 1995.
Yeo is a retired lecturer of the National Institute of Education and Nanyang Technological University. At present he is a teacher of creative writing at the Singapore Management University and mentors the Mentor Access Programme of the National Arts Council. Foreign more than a decade, from 1977 onwards, he was chairman of the Drama Advisory Committee which helped develop theatre in Singapore, especially English-language theatre.
He has published four poetry collections: Coming Home Baby (1971).
And Napalm Does Not Help (1977), A Participant of Three (1989) and Leaving Home, Mother (1999) and has been included in several anthologies, including Five Takes (1974). His venture into novel writing resulted in a sole book: The Adventures of Holden Heng (1986) about the sexual education of its anti-hero.
Yeo has written six plays: (1974), One Year Back Home (1980), Second Chance (1988), The Eye of History (1991), Changi (1996) and Your Bed is Your Coffin. All the plays except the last have been staged in Singapore.
, One Year Back Home and Changi are collectively known as "the Singapore trilogy".
Yeo has also edited collections of short fiction, plays and textbooks, a memoir, as well as the libretto for an opera.