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Welcome!
I’m Thai American poet writing at the intersection of faith, justice, and wonder. My poetry has been published in Sojourners, First Things, and The Lent Project, and I am currently working on publishing my first book!
I love investing in other writers! Scroll down to learn more about the PAX Fellowship's Emerging Writers Cohort and my workshop Spirit & Scribe, helping writers integrate spiritual formation and writing craft.
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SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
(Or view my full publication history)
~ Forthcoming ~
Psalm at Sea | Commonweal Magazine
Beyond the Burning Sea | Firewords Magazine
Benediction | Worship for Workers
Undone | Resolute Magazine
The Shallows | Rabbit Room Poetry
~ 2024 ~
Prayer | Ekstasis Magazine
Your Voice | International Fellowship of Evangelical Students
Covenant Prayer and Judas in the Upper Room | Rabbit Room Poetry
Image and American Altar | Christians for Social Action
The Stories of Our Lives | Worship for Workers
Gethsemane's Amen | Clayjar Review
Poems for Lent and Ordinary Time | The Soil and the Seed Project
iRemember | Geez Magazine
~ 2023 ~
The Via Dolorosa | The Lent Project
A Psalm of Lament for Gun Violence in America | Chasing Justice
(Republished with a new introduction at Red Letter Christians)
Advent | Christians for Social Action
A Mystery | Ekstasis Magazine
Loving | Asian American Christian Collaborative
(Republished with a new introduction at Red Letter Christians)
~ 2022 ~
Image | Red Letter Christians
Eventide | Commonweal Magazine
(Also published in Dappled Things)
Appled Things | Presence: A Journal of Catholic Poetry
Judas in the Upper Room and Mary and Eve | Ekstasis Magazine
Let my words | Fathom Magazine
~ 2021 ~
American Altar and Jesus Among the Insurrectionists | PAX
(Republished with a new introductions at Red Letter Christians)
Keyhole and The Shallows | Ekstasis Magazine
Cultivating, Failure, and Spirit & Scribe (Writers' Prayer) | Cultivating
In Darkness | Fathom Magazine
~ 2020 ~
The Cross and the Lynching Tree | Sojourners
(Available to read for free at Christians for Social Action)
Covenant Prayer | First Things
On a Cardinal Climbing Down a Manhole to Restore Power to 400 Homeless People | Commonweal Magazine
Christmas Lights | Ekstasis Magazine
You Come to Me with Breakfast | Inheritance Magazine
The Rule | Asian American Christian Collaborative
~ 2018-2019 ~
The Heavens Draped in Sackcloth Sigh | Ekstasis Magazine
Breathe | Fathom Magazine
The Train | Poets Reading the News
Permanent Separations | Faithfully Magazine
When Ancient Time Shuts Tight Its Rusted Doors | Inheritance Magazine
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PAX FELLOWSHIP
I'm thrilled to be co-leading the 2024-2025 PAX Fellowship's Emerging Writers Cohort with Chanté Griffin starting this Fall!
What is the PAX Fellowship?
A seven-month fellowship of virtual sessions that includes teaching, discussion, mentorship, spiritual direction, contemplative practices, and community building for peace and justice.
Who is it for?
For adults of color, around ages 25-45, who seek teaching, mentorship, networking, and community around vocational development and contemplative formation.
Dates: Virtual gatherings: September 10, 2024 to March 18, 2025, twice a month for the duration of the program. Break during the month of December.
Tuition: $150 payment due within 7 days of application submission. The true cost of the fellowship is $3270 but generously subsidized by donors and grants to offer fellows a one-time tuition of $150.
Learn more and apply at madeforpax.org/fellowship.
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.
Join our interest list to be notified first 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?
Join our interest list to be notified first the next time we offer Spirit & Scribe.