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 Commonweal, First Things, Sojourners, and The Lent Project.
I also love investing in other writers! I co-lead a workshop about spiritual formation and writing craft called Spirit & Scribe. I also co-facilitate PAX's Emerging Writers Cohort.
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SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
(Or view my full publication history)
~ Forthcoming ~
Prayer | Ekstasis Magazine
Beyond the Burning Sea | Firewords Magazine
iRemember | Geez Magazine
Judas in the Upper Room | Rabbit Room Poetry
Your Voice | Song with Aimee Smith
How on Earth | LogoSophia
Undone | Resolute Magazine
~ 2024 ~
Covenant Prayer | Rabbit Room Poetry
Image | Christians for Social Action
Gethsemane's Amen | Clayjar Review
Three Poems | The Soil and the Seed Project
~ 2023 ~
The Via Dolorosa | The Lent Project (Biola University)
A Mystery | Ekstasis Magazine
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
Loving | Reclaim Magazine
(Republished with a new introduction at Red Letter Christians)
Accent | Ricepaper Magazine
Erasure | Voice & Verse Poetry Magazine
~ 2022 ~
Eventide | Commonweal Magazine
(Also published in Dappled Things)
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
~ 2021 ~
American Altar | PAX
(Republished with a new introduction at Red Letter Christians)
Jesus Among the Insurrectionists | PAX
(Republished with a new introduction at Red Letter Christians)
Keyhole | Ekstasis Magazine
The Shallows | Ekstasis Magazine
Cultivating | Cultivating
Failure | Cultivating
Spirit & Scribe (Writers' Prayer) | Cultivating
In Darkness | Fathom Magazine
The Unfolding | Solum Journal
Breathe & 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
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)
Podcasts
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.