May Ngo is a writer, editor and former academic with a PhD in anthropology. She is Australian of Teo Chew Chinese-Cambodian descent currently based in Prague, Czech Republic.
You can read some of her writing here.
She is the founder of the Prague Writers Workshop
She used to blog at The Violent Bear It Away.
You can subscribe to her newsletter, tangents converge.
May is available for commissions in audio drama, writing, editing, research, copywriting as well as other creative collaborations.
Recent highlights
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Shortlisted for the Woollahra Digital Literary Awards in the non-fiction category for my review essay of ‘On the Line’ (by Joseph Ponthus, trans. by Stephanie Smee) published in Kill Your Darlings
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Shortlisted for the 2021 Wheeler Centre The Next Chapter award for a crime fiction manuscript
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Recipient of the Kill Your Darlings 2021 New Critic Award, focusing on translated literature. I answered 5 questions for Liminal about this Award
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One of the recipients of the Sydney Review of Books 2021 JUNCTURE Fellowship Program for book critics
