Publications and Awards (reverse chronological)
2025
2024
2023
2025
- 2025 Ragdale Resident - Poetry
- "Singing in a bamboo grove (after Priscilla Chan)", Canto Cutie, March 2025.
- "Such strange birds", Forthcoming publication in Saint Paul Almanac 20th Anniversary anthology. Fall 2025.
- "Lorong belakang", Pandan Weekly. January 2025.
2024
- "The Five-Foot Way of Life as an Abecedarian", "My Haunted Primary School: A Burning Haibun", "Pasar Pagi". Malaysian Places and Spaces, edited by Malachi Edwin Vethamani. November 2024.
- "oh, for i am jade". Cut Fruit. Issue 1. September 2024.
- "self portrait of the new boy". Selected for Minnesota BIPOC Emerging Writer's Award, honorable mention. Blue Earth Review. Issue 32. Spring 2024.
2023
- "kami yang kekal (after Usman Awang's Kambing Hitam and GE 15)" Portside Review. Issue 11. September 2023.
- Loft Fellow Series, honorable mention (Poetry)
brief poet bio:
Sook Jin Ong 翁淑君 (she/her) is a Minnesota-based Malaysian Chinese poet. Poetry reading and writing is part of her rest practice, and a way to connect to her lineage, her identities, her experiences, and her being. Sook Jin resides in Minneapolis.
Sook Jin Ong 翁淑君 (she/her) is a Minnesota-based Malaysian Chinese poet. Poetry reading and writing is part of her rest practice, and a way to connect to her lineage, her identities, her experiences, and her being. Sook Jin resides in Minneapolis.