short fiction & non-fiction
2025
“They Will Give Us A Home”, Amplitudes: Stories of Queer and Trans Futurity, Erewhon Books (forthcoming)
2024
“What Becomes of Curious Minds“, Lightspeed
> Author interview
“They Will Give Us A Home“, To Root Somewhere Beautiful (Outland Entertainment)
“An Eye For An Eye“, National Gallery Singapore’s NO FLASH podcast (forthcoming)
“Single Use“, “The Cool Girls Have the Eyes” & “Resistant to Death“, Ctrl Alt Future project organised by NTU SOH x Smart Nation Office (forthcoming)
2023
“Laura Lau Will Drain You Dry“, Nightmare Magazine
> Author interview
“Concerning the Fantastic Native Flora of the Indo-Chinese Padma Valley“, Pseudopod
The resonance of hunger: Food, Asian family, colonialism and diaspora in Trang Thanh Tran’s She Is A Haunting, Tor.com/Reactor
The Creature Editorial, Apparition Lit (guest editor introduction)
2022
“Icariana“, Baffling Magazine
> Recommended by Alex Brown in Tor’s must-read short speculative fiction for January 2023
> Recommended by Charles Payseur in Locus Magazine
> Reprinted in We’re Here: The Best Queer Speculative Fiction 2022 (Neon Hemlock) and 2022 Best of Utopian Speculative Fiction Anthology (Android Press)
“Love Heart Soup“, Augur Magazine
> Recommended by Karen Burnham in Locus Magazine
> Recommended by Vanessa Fogg
> Reprinted in The Year’s Best Fantasy, Vol 2 (starred review from Publisher’s Weekly)
“Hundred-Handed One“, Uncanny Magazine
> Tor Nightfire’s Best Horror Short Fiction Feb 2022
“The Lighthouse Keeper’s Guide to Pulau Belakang Mati“, Flash Fiction Online
“Lady Macbeth, the Pontianak, and the compelling power of the monstrous feminine“, Tor.com/Reactor
“Lay My Stomach On Your Scales“, Strange Horizons (September 2022)
“Wife, Skin, Keeper, Slick“, Fish Eats Lion Redux (Epigram Books; November 2022)
> Reviewed in The Straits Times
“First Strikes the Lightning“, Anathema Magazine
“Wok Lung Hei“, Tree & Stone
“Rooted“, Reckoning
“That Is Their Tragedy“, Fright 1 (Epigram Books/Storytel)
2021
“Wildlife Encounter”, Strange Horizons
“The 74th District”, Speculative City
> Recommended by Alex Brown in Tor’s must-read short speculative fiction for April 2021
> Recommended by Karen Burnham in Locus Magazine
“Facechanger”, perhappened
> Nominated for Best Small Fictions
“pink dots & renegades”, Second Chance Lit
“the water under the millennium bridge ripples white at night”, the winnow mag
2020
“Tales from the Spirit South”, Sword & Kettle Press (December 2020)
“The Mirror of Longing”, Luna Station Quarterly (December 2020)