Welcome!
I'm a Thai-American poet, born in California and currently living in Bangkok, Thailand.
I co-lead a workshop at the intersection of spiritual formation and writing craft called Spirit & Scribe.
Thanks for visiting! Scroll down to explore my poetry and teaching, and feel free to contact me by email.
PUBLISHED POEMS
~ Forthcoming ~
Eventide | Commonweal Magazine
~ 2022 ~
Let my words | Fathom Magazine
When the storm has passed | Fare Forward
Image | Red Letter Christians
(Featured at Verse Daily)
Appled Things | Presence: A Journal of Catholic Poetry
Judas in the Upper Room | Ekstasis Magazine
(Special Recognition, Helen Schaible International Sonnet Contest)
My Friends Have a Car in Louisiana | Reclaim Magazine
~ 2021 ~
The Shallows | Ekstasis Magazine
In Darkness | Fathom Magazine
Cultivating | Cultivating
The Unfolding | Solum Journal
Keyhole | Ekstasis Magazine
Failure | Cultivating
American Altar | PAX
(Featured at Red Letter Christians)
Jesus Among the Insurrectionists | PAX
(Featured at Verse Daily and Red Letter Christians)
Spirit & Scribe (Writers' Prayer) | Cultivating
~ 2020 ~
Christmas Lights | Ekstasis Magazine
(Anthologized in Remembering That It Happened Once)
Tactics | The Moth (purchase)
His Hand | ar-che-type
(Featured in the Art & Words Show and The Ekphrastic Review)
The Cross and the Lynching Tree | Sojourners Magazine (purchase)(2nd Place, Helen Schaible International Sonnet Contest)
Fake Church | Faithfully Magazine (purchase)
Covenant Prayer | First Things
Lighting Candles by Starlight | Cultivating
The Rule | Reclaim Magazine
(Featured in Faithfully Magazine and The Poetry Pub Chapbook Vol. 2: 2020)
I Know Not Where I Go | Resolute Magazine
(Featured in Every Good & Perfect Gift: Finding Joy in Our Trials)
Lines Last | Cultivating
You Come to Me with Breakfast | Inheritance Magazine
On a Cardinal Climbing Down a Manhole to Restore Power to 400 Homeless People | Commonweal Magazine
Sometimes Mercy | Firewords Magazine (purchase)
~ 2019 ~
Breathe | Fathom Magazine
(Anthologized in Remembering That It Happened Once and featured in Simple Christmas)
Husbands | Poems for Ephesians (scroll down on page)
The Heavens Draped in Sackcloth Sigh | Ekstasis Magazine
~ 2018 ~
Like Soap Does | Whole Life Soaps Haiku Contest (honorable mention)
The Train | Poets Reading the News
The Wound | What Rough Beast
When Ancient Time Shuts Tight Its Rusted Doors | Inheritance Magazine
Permanent Separations | Faithfully Magazine
Can I? | Faithfully Magazine
Fully Alive | In Memory of Arno Enns
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MEDIA
Poem Videos
Two of my poems have been made into poetry films.
"The Heavens Draped in Sackcloth Sigh"
(A Moonlighting English Teacher)
"I Know Not Where I Go"
(Visible Poetry Project)
INTERVIEWS & PODCASTS
On A Growing Home, host Sarah Ku and I discuss my poetry journey and my multiethnic family's experience living abroad in Thailand.
On Ekstasis Live, I get to chat with educator, video essayist, and poet Mark Cooprider (a.k.a. A Moonlighting English Teacher).
On The Callback, Jai Patel and I talk about nonviolence, guns in America, and my poem "American Altar" from PAX's Nonviolence StoryArc.
On Faithfully Podcast, editor Nicola Menzie provides helpful context for my poem "The Rule" before inviting me to read it.
SPIRIT & SCRIBE
Spirit & Scribe is an online workshop that explores the intersection of writing craft and spiritual formation. While there are many books and courses about spiritual practices, and about writing, this workshop meets on the bridge between the two — exploring how our spiritual lives shape our art, and how our writing forms us (and others) spiritually.
Each week participants will be led through corporate prayer, an interactive lesson, reflection exercises, and group discussion. Participants will also have the opportunity to engage in mid-week exercises designed to fuse their artistic practices with their spiritual callings. Our hope is that every person would leave with a clearer sense of how to journey with God as a writer.
Sign up for the interest list to be notified the next time we offer Spirit & Scribe!
About the Workshop
Week 1: Purpose — Motivations in Writing
What motivates our writing? Should we create if our motives aren't 100% pure? Is that even possible? We get real about our motivations as writers and consider how God is inviting us to journey with Him.
Week 2: Process — Cultivating an Idea
What does it look like to shepherd an idea from concept to publication? In our second week, we explore what Scripture teaches us about how to cultivate an idea and how to know which ideas are worth pursuing.
Week 3: Prayer — Writing with the Spirit
How does prayer intersect with our writing lives? We will look at how God gives creative ideas through prayer, how prayer shapes those ideas, how art can be a form of prayer and an act of obedience to God.
Week 4: Parable — Forming the Imagination
In our last week, we turn from looking at our own spirituality to consider how our writing craft intersects with our readers' spiritual formation. Jesus gave the masterclass in this; what does it look like for us today?
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