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I’m an Australian Teochew-Cambodian writer, mother and doubly diasporic immigrant who wants to connect with others through writing, especially those who - like migrants, mothers, the working class - feel that writing is not for them. I've published literary criticism, essays, fiction, audio drama and arts reviews and have a PhD in anthropology.
I am the founder of the Prague Writers Workshop
You can read some of my writing here
I also create zines.
You can subscribe to my newsletter, tangents converge.
I used to blog at The Violent Bear It Away.
Awards
Recipient of the Sydney Review of Books 2021 JUNCTURE Fellowship Program for book critics
Recipient of the Kill Your Darlings 2021 New Critic Award, focusing on translated literature
Shortlisted for the Woollahra Digital Literary Awards in the non-fiction category
Shortlisted for the 2021 Wheeler Centre The Next Chapter award for a crime fiction manuscript
Accepted onto the mentoring program Asian Women Writers for my crime fiction manuscript
Recipient of the Faber Writing Academy Writing Creative Nonfiction scholarship 2024 with Rebecca Griggs
Longlisted for the HarperCollins Australian Fiction Prize 2026 for my crime fiction manuscript
I am available for commissions in audio drama, book reviews and essays as well as other creative collaborations.
Quick facts
Born
Cambodia
Raised in
Sydney, Australia
Based in
Prague, Czech Republic
BA in Sociology, MA in Education
Macquarie University, Western Sydney Univeristy
PhD in Anthropology
Swinburne University
Flannery O'Connor
Anton Chekhov
James Baldwin
May ngo
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