Welcome!
I’m a Thai American poet writing about faith, justice, and wonder. My poems have appeared in Rattle, The Moth, Commonweal, First Things, Presence, and Sojourners. I am the grateful recipient of the 2025 Frederick Buechner Award for Excellence in Writing from Fuller Seminary.
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Investing in other writers is my jam! I lead the PAX Fellowship's eight-month Writing as Spiritual Formation Cohort. I also co-lead Spirit & Scribe, a four-week workshop helping writers to integrate spiritual formation and writing craft—which is currently open for registration!
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Selected Poems
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Click the link to read a poem at its place of publication or the 📝 symbol next to a poem to read it with commentary on my Substack.
Recent & Forthcoming
- "iWonder" (Rattle, Sept. 2026)
- "Let my words" and "Lines Last" (Free to Write, Global Christian Family Books, Sept. 2026)
- "THE NEW COLOSSUS" (Maria W. Faust Sonnet Contest, Laureates' Choice, Jul. 2026)
- "Deconstruction" (We Mend with Gold by Kristin T. Lee, Broadleaf Books, Apr. 2026)
- "Resurrection" (The Lent Project, Easter 2026) 📝
Selected Publications
Commonweal
- "Psalm at Sea" (2024) 📝
- "Eventide" (2022) 📝
- "On a Cardinal Climbing Down a Manhole to Restore Power to 400 Homeless People" (2020) 📝
First Things
- "Covenant Prayer" (2020) 📝
The Moth
- "Tactics" (2020)
Presence: A Journal of Catholic Poetry
- "Appled Things" (2022) 📝
Sojourners
- "The Cross and the Lynching Tree" (2020) 📝
Art & Words Show
Clayjar Review
- "Providence" (2024) 📝
- "Gethsemane's Amen" (2024) 📝
Cultivating
- "Cultivating" (2021)
- "Spirit & Scribe (Writers' Prayer)" (2021) 📝
Ekstasis
- "Prayer" (2024) 📝
- "A Mystery" (2023) 📝
- "Judas in the Upper Room" (2022) 📝
- "Mary and Eve" (2022) 📝
- "The Shallows" (2021) 📝
- "Keyhole" (2021) 📝
Fathom Mag
- "Let my words" (2022) 📝
- "Breathe" (2019) 📝
Geez Magazine
The Lent Project
- "The Via Dolorosa" (2023) 📝
Red Letter Christians
- "A Sonnet for Sonya Massey" (2024) 📝
- "Image" (2022) 📝
- "American Altar" (2021)
- "Jesus Among the Insurrectionists" (2021)
Resolute Magazine
The Soil and the Seed Project
- "Heaven's Stair" (2025) 📝
- "Our Family Tree" (2025) 📝
Solum Journal
- "The Unfolding" (2021) 📝
You can also find my poems tucked away in I've Got a Bad Case of Poetry, an illustrated children's anthology edited by Rachel S. Donahue (2025), and Remembering That It Happened Once, an anthology of Christmas poems edited by Dennis L. Johnson (2021).
Finally, check out "Your Voice," a song I co-wrote and recorded with Aimee Smith for International Fellowship of Evangelical Students.
Spirit & Scribe
Spirit & Scribe is a four-session 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.
* Our August 2026 cohort is now open for registration! This 20-person cohort will be our only offering for 2026.
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?
* Our August 2026 cohort is now open for registration! This 20-person cohort will be our only offering for 2026.
PAX Fellowship Writing as Spiritual Formation Cohort
What is the PAX Fellowship?
A nine-month fellowship for Christians of color ages 25-45 of virtual sessions that includes teaching, group mentorship, spiritual direction, contemplative practices, and community building for peace and justice.
About the Writing as Spiritual Formation Cohort
The Writing as Spiritual Formation Cohort, facilitated by Michael Stalcup, is a community of writers seeking to deepen their spiritual foundations, engage writing as a God-given vocation, and develop their craft, platform, and publishing. It is for writers who want to grow through developing spiritual rhythms, engaging in community, and thoughtfully engaging platform and publication.
Applications for the 2026-2027 PAX Fellowship are closed, but you can join the waitlist for the 2027-2028 Fellowship.