Welcome!
I'm a Thai American poet, born in California and currently living in Bangkok, Thailand. My poetry has been published in several magazines, including Sojourners, Commonweal, Dappled Things, First Things, and Ekstasis Magazine.
I co-lead a workshop at the intersection of spiritual formation and writing craft called Spirit & Scribe.
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SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
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~ Forthcoming ~
Advent | Christians for Social Action
Your Voice | International Fellowship of Evangelical Students
Beyond the Burning Sea | Firewords Magazine
Undone | Resolute Magazine
~ 2023 ~
The Via Dolorosa | The 2023 Lent Project (Biola University)
A Mystery | Ekstasis Magazine
A Psalm of Lament for Gun Violence in America | Chasing Justice
Loving | Reclaim Magazine
A Psalm of Lament for Gun Violence in America | Red Letter Christians
(Republished with a new introduction)
Loving | Red Letter Christians
(Republished with a new introduction)
Accent | Ricepaper Magazine
Erasure | Voice & Verse Poetry Magazine
~ 2022 ~
Eventide | Commonweal Magazine
Image | Red Letter Christians
Appled Things | Presence: A Journal of Catholic Poetry
Judas in the Upper Room | Ekstasis Magazine
Mary and Eve | Ekstasis Magazine
When the storm has passed | Fare Forward
Let my words | Fathom Magazine
My Friends Have a Car in Louisiana | Reclaim Magazine
Eventide | Dappled Things
~ 2021 ~
American Altar | PAX
Jesus Among the Insurrectionists | PAX
Keyhole | Ekstasis Magazine
The Shallows | Ekstasis Magazine
American Altar | Red Letter Christians
(Republished with a new introduction)
Jesus Among the Insurrectionists | Red Letter Christians
(Republished with a new introduction)
Cultivating | Cultivating
Failure | Cultivating
Spirit & Scribe (Writers' Prayer) | Cultivating
In Darkness | Fathom Magazine
The Unfolding | Solum Journal
Breathe and Christmas Lights | Remembering That It Happened Once (anthology)
~ 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
Lighting Candles by Starlight | Cultivating
Lines Last | Cultivating
Fake Church | Faithfully Magazine
Sometimes Mercy | Firewords Magazine
You Come to Me with Breakfast | Inheritance Magazine
Tactics | The Moth
His Hand | PAX
The Rule | Reclaim Magazine
I Know Not Where I Go | Resolute Magazine
~ 2019 ~
The Heavens Draped in Sackcloth Sigh | Ekstasis Magazine
Breathe | Fathom Magazine
Husbands | Poems for Ephesians
~ 2018 ~
The Train | Poets Reading the News
Can I? | Faithfully Magazine
Permanent Separations | Faithfully Magazine
When Ancient Time Shuts Tight Its Rusted Doors | Inheritance Magazine
The Wound | What Rough Beast
Like Soap Does | Whole Life Soaps Haiku Contest
(Honorable mention)
Fully Alive | In Memory of Arno Enns
MEDIA
Poem Videos
Two of my poems have been made into videos.
"The Heavens Draped in Sackcloth Sigh"
(A Moonlighting English Teacher)
"I Know Not Where I Go"
(Visible Poetry Project)
INTERVIEWS & PODCASTS
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.
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.