2025

“Commissioned” and “The washing machine is broken”. Event (forthcoming).

“Familiar” and “Things I’ve never feared for my children”. The Humber Literary Review (forthcoming).

“Hungry ghosts.” Canadian Literature, forthcoming.

“To the red-winged blackbird that dive-bombs me at 6 am.” The Ex-Puritan, forthcoming.

“A violence.” CV2, forthcoming.

“God, spoon, fork” and “God and mammon”. The Ampersand Review of Writing and Publishing, forthcoming.

2024

“On faith.” Grain 52.1 (Fall 2024), 68.

“He/him.” Best Canadian Poetry 2024, ed. Aislinn Hunter. Biblioasis, 2024.

“Sandwich Generation.” Bookworm no. 57 (newsletter of The Literary Review of Canada).

“Saturday morning, East Pender Street.” The Literary Review of Canada (September 2024), 25.

* longlisted, 2021 CBC Poetry Prize

“Admission.” Prairie Fire 45.2 (Summer 2024), 45.

* third place, 2023 McNally Robinson Poetry Award

“Wild ice.” The Ampersand Review 5 (Winter 2024), 10.

2023

“He/him.” Grain 50th Anniversary Issue (September 2023), 85.

“Readiness,” “Confinement,” “SAHM,” and “More echoes.” The Malahat Review 224 (Autumn 2023), 13-16.

* read an interview with Sarah Yi-Mei Tsiang about these poems

“Legacy.” This Magazine, May/June 2023.

“Bacillus cereus.” Arc Poetry Magazine 101 (Summer 2023), 48.

“The eldest.” Contemporary Verse 2 46.1 (Summer 2023), 34.

*first place, 2022 Foster Poetry Prize

“How my family ended up in Malaya,” “Personal Effects,” and “Do You Speak English? A Phrasebook for Various Occasions.” EVENT 52.1 (Spring/Summer 2023), 66-70.

“When Lucy clambered into the wardrobe.” Poem in Your Pocket 2023. League of Canadian Poets, April 27, 2023.

*you can hear me read it here (track 5)

“So dark.” Pinhole Poetry 2.1 (April 2023).

“Redaction.” filling Station 80, 15-16.

“Rebuke the Ghosts.” Rattle 79 (Spring 2023), 22-23.

*click above the byline to hear me read it

“Kueh Bangket.” The Malahat Review 221 (Winter 2023), 92.

*shortlisted, 2022 Far Horizons Award for Poetry

“Noncombatant.” Contemporary Verse 2 45.3 (Winter 2023), 10-11.

2022

“Tek tek” (lyric essay). CBC Books (September 2022).

*shortlisted, 2022 CBC Nonfiction Prize

“Fontanelle.” The Moth (Autumn 2022), 14.

“heat warning.” The Literary Review of Canada (July-August 2022), 21.

“Journey to the West.” Room 45.2 (Spring 2022), 64.

2021

“Four Feasts.” The Forge (April 25, 2022).

*finalist, 2021 Forge Flash Nonfiction Competition

“Dyad.” The Malahat Review 216 (Fall 2021), 8.

“Would You Rather.” The Australian Book Review 428 (January-February 2021), 29.

*shortlisted, 2021 Peter Porter Poetry Prize

2020

“Concussion.” Arc Poetry Magazine 93 (Fall 2020), 107-08.

“Mr. T in Your Pocket.” arcpoetry.ca

*winner, July 2020 Arc Award of Awesomeness