Max Pasakorn (he/she/they, in no particular order) is a writer of creative nonfiction and poetry, whose works revolve around food, queerness and popular culture. They have lived in Thailand, Singapore and the United States. Max holds a BA in Arts & Humanities (Creative Writing) from Yale-NUS College.

Max’s debut nonfiction chapbook, A Study in Our Selves, won the OutWrite 2022 Chapbook Competition (Nonfiction) selected by Joseph Osmundson and was published by Neon Hemlock Press in 2023. Max’s other short-form works have won the 2024 swamp pink Prize in Nonfiction and the 2022 Chestnut Review Stubborn Writers’ Contest in Poetry.

Max is a founding editor of the Singapore-based poetry journal Kopi Break, a poetry magazine-newsletter which aims to platform voices from Singapore and the Singaporean diaspora, and the creative nonfiction editor of Perks of Being Dumped, an anthology of local heartbreak writing, published by Marshall Cavendish in 2024.

Follow Max on Twitter at @62purcenthomo and follow Max on Instagram at @maxpasakorn and @maxpsk_writes.