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

Facult of Arts, University of Melbourne, Diversity & Inclusion 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
'Elsewhere than here' with Daryl Lim Wei Jie for RMIT non/fictionLab x Mekong Review, forthcoming 2024.

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

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

'ars facsimile' in MMOJ June 2023

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

Commercial Publications

2016
Rod & Line Magazine
Issue no. 243
Feature article 'The Naga'
Issue no. 244
Feature article "The Naga pt 2'

2016
Focus Malaysia Newspaper
Top Class (June)
Column Interview: Text & Photos

2016
The Edge Malaysia
Designworks, City & Country
Feature Article: Text pages 10-12(Uncredited)

2013
Outside In: Design by Pentago
Hardback, 220 pages
Marshall Cavendish






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

Policy Publications

2013
Embassy of Belgium
European Trade in Asia (Malaysia)
Public Diplomatic Report

Video Art

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