writer & editor

Awards

2023
Peter McPhee Community Ïmpact Award
for A Wasteland of Malaysian Poetry in English

Hai-O Arts & Culture Grants Award
for A Wasteland of Malaysian Poetry in English

University of Melbourne, Diversity & Engagement Award
for A Wasteland of Malaysian Poetry in English

2022
ThinkCity Community Grants Award
for A Wasteland of Malaysian Poetry in English

2021
Longlisted for
The Liminal & Pantera Press Nonfiction Prize 2021

Poetry
"Mantra" & "Pattern Recognition" in Eternal Summer Notes, Shuren Press 2025.

'Elsewhere than here' with Daryl Lim Wei Jie for RMIT non/fictionLab x Mekong Review, 2024.

'di luar parlimen (after T. Alias Taib)' in Malaysian Spaces and Places, 2024.

'to say nothing of it, i bite my golden tongue' in The Second-Link: A Malaysia Singapore Literary Anthology, Marshall Cavendish International, 2023.

'ars facsimile' in MMOJ June 2023.

'trishaw driver' & 'two minds on malaysian writing' in Malaysian Millenial Voices, Maya Press, 2021.








Criticism, Reviews, & Creative Responses

2024
"Critical Introduction." In the Mirror: New and Selected Poems of Wong Phui Nam, edited by Brandon K. Liew and Daryl Lim Wei Jie, National University of Singapore Press, 2025.

2023
Australian Centre for Moving Image (ACMI)
Life Cycle – a response to Olivia Koh's Minyak Sawit Keluarga

Liminal Review of Books
New Singapore Poetries by Singapore Unbound

Liminal x Cordite Poetry Review
A Wasteland of Malaysian Poets

2022
The Guardian
Childhood by Shannon Burns

Liminal Review of Books
London Does Not Belong to Me by Lee Kok Liang

Fiction
'effigies' in The Second-Link: A Malaysia Singapore Literary Anthology, 2023, Marshall Cavendish International

Press & Interviews

2024
Quickfire Quintet Interview
Mekong Review Weekly
10th April 2024
for RMIT non/fictionLab x Mekong Review

2022
Bandar Aktiviti Seni KL
https://baskl.com.my/exhibition-encourages-visitors-to-lend-an-ear-to-malaysian-poetry/

The Star
https://www.thestar.com.my/lifestyle/culture/2022/08/23/audio-exhibition-in-kl-lets-visitors-explore-the-malaysian-poetry-scene

The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/sep/06/riveting-laugh-out-loud-beautifully-written-the-best-australian-books-out-in-september


2021
Liminal Magazine
5 Questions

Video Art

A Wasteland of Our Own, in Issue 59.2_The Fever, Art + Australia, Victorian College of the Arts, May 2025.

Image Concept & Design for
"The Language Lesson" by Ray Langenbach, 2023

Non-Fiction
2024
"thank you for calling"
in Malaysian Writers Society
Best of Food Anthology 2024

2022
"thank you for calling"
in Against Disappearance: Essays on Memory
Paperback
Pantera Press, Sydney

"A Wasteland of Malaysian Poets"
Liminal x Cordite Poetry Review

2021

Eksentrika.com
Authenticity and Malaysian Writing
https://eksentrika.com/malaysian-writing-in-english/

Editorial Positions

2023
Guest Editor
Portside Review
Issue #11 Malaysia
Editorial: A Kindred State of Becoming

2013-2015
Editor, Proofer and Transcriber
The Public Sentence
Clients include the ABC, University of Melbourne, various government bodies