Publications and Awards (reverse chronological)
2025
2024
2023
2025
- 2025 - 2026 Loft Mentor Series Fellow - Poetry
- 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
- "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 Malaysian Chinese poet. She writes because poetry brings her restfulness, especially as she grapples with migratory and diasporic longings, chronic migraines, and fragments of the many tongues she haltingly speaks. Sook Jin's poems have appeared in Canto Cutie, Cut Fruit, and Pandan Weekly, among others. Sook Jin resides in Minneapolis.
Sook Jin Ong 翁淑君 (she/her) is a Malaysian Chinese poet. She writes because poetry brings her restfulness, especially as she grapples with migratory and diasporic longings, chronic migraines, and fragments of the many tongues she haltingly speaks. Sook Jin's poems have appeared in Canto Cutie, Cut Fruit, and Pandan Weekly, among others. Sook Jin resides in Minneapolis.