Max Pasakorn (he/she/they, in no particular order) is a queer writer of creative nonfiction and poetry who has 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 writing has been published or is forthcoming in venues such as Split Lip Magazine, WITNESS Magazine, Foglifter Journal, Speculative Nonfiction, SUSPECT Journal of Asian Writing and Art, Eunoia Review, Strange Horizons, Honey Literary and Chestnut Review.

Max is a founding editor of the Singapore-based poetry journal Kopi Break Poetry, which aims to platform voices from Singapore and the Singaporean diaspora.

Read more about Max at www.maxpasakorn.works, follow Max on Twitter at @62purcenthomo and follow Max on Instagram at @maxpasakorn and @maxpsk_writes.