My Writing

Selected Publications

Creative Nonfiction

2023

On Mothers, Chickens and the Thai Alphabet, an essay in Issue 7 of Speculative Nonfiction

How to Look at Gold in 10 Easy Steps, an essay about the closure of Golden Mile Complex, in SUSPECT

Mother Talks to 11-Year-Old Self at Bedok Hawker Centre, in Eunoia Review

2022

The Opening of a Queer Universe, an essay about drag, queerness and mothers, published in Issue 11 of Defunkt Magazine

Konwohrachet, Pasakorn and Max (Pages 21-24) in Issue 06 of Middleground Magazine, a literary and visual arts magazine for mixed race creatives

Poetry

2024

Ghazal for My Gay Ass in an upcoming issue of Split Lip Magazine

Making Sense of City Eager to Take Me Out in Volume 9 Issue 1 of Foglifter Journal

Long-Distance Duplex in the Spring 2024 issue of Witness Magazine

2023

พร (porn) // wish (n.) in Issue 6 of Honey Literary

for a future in Sploosh Issue 1: Rise (pages 20-21).

เข้าใจ (kaojai) // to understand, lit. to enter the heart (n.) in the Winter 2023 issue of Chestnut Review — this work is the winner of the Chestnut Review Stubborn Writers’ Contest 2022.

2022

field notes from an investigation into the self in Strange Horizons: the Southeast Asian Issue — this work is a finalist for the 2023 Science Fiction & Fantasy Association Rhysling Award

Guide to Finding an Infinite Number of Selves and On Learning to Live with Puppet Strings in flux, an anthology by Fifth Wheel Press — the former work has since been nominated for the Pushcart Prize by Fifth Wheel Press

2019

Self-Portrait as Jonathan Van Ness, published in Issue 17 of Freeze Ray Poetry.

Awards

2024

Awarded Second Place in Poetry at the 2023-2024 NUS Writers’ Centre Literary Awards, judged by Victoria Chang

Awarded First Place in Creative Nonfiction at the 2023-2024 NUS Writers’ Centre Literary Awards, judged by Jenny Odell

Awarded Runner-up of the 2024 Witness Literary Awards in Poetry awarded by the University of Nevada, Las Vegas and judged by Maryam Ala Amjadi

2023

Co-Winner of the Corbin Prize for outstanding composition in an informal essay at Amherst College

Awarded First Place in Poetry at the 2022-2023 Yale-NUS Literary Awards, judged by Mary Jo Bang

Awarded First Place in Creative Nonfiction at the 2022-2023 Yale-NUS Literary Awards, judged by John D’Agata

2022

Winner of the Chestnut Review Stubborn Writers’ Contest in Poetry

Winner of the 2022 OutWrite Chapbook Competition in Creative Nonfiction, judged by Joe Osmundson

Awarded the Honorable Mention in Creative Nonfiction at the 2021-2022 Yale-NUS Literary Awards, judged by Wayne Koestenbaum