Books & Anthologies
This Is Where I Won’t Be Alone: Stories by Inez Tan
Best New Singaporean Short Stories: Volume 4, edited by Pooja Nansi and Jason Erik Lundberg
A View of Stars: Stories of Love, edited by Anitha Devi Pillai and Felix Cheong (Singapore bookstores and forthcoming Amazon USA)
A Luxury We Must Afford: Poetry, edited by Christine Chia, Joshua Ip and Cheryl Julia Lee
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The Art and Craft of Stories from Asia: A Writer’s Guide and Anthology (Bloomsbury Writers’ Guides and Anthologies), edited by Robin Hemley and Xu Xi (forthcoming 2021)
Fiction
Grin to Grin — RECLINER
Dear Famous Poet — Letters Journal, Yale Institute of Sacred Music
Oyster — Fairy Tale Review
On the Moon — Quarterly Literary Review Singapore Vol. 16 No. 1
The Princess and the Dragon — Psychopomp #9
Crawling — Quarterly Literary Review Singapore Vol. 14. No. 4
Why, Grandmother — Print-Oriented Bastards #7
Talking to Strangers — The Irish Literary Review
Poetry
The Golem Speaks, Asylum — diode poetry
Sitting in the Rubble, A Quiet Night Alone — Zócalo Public Square
Ocean, Unspoken, Persimmons, Diaspora — Creative Arts Programme Singapore 30 Years Commemorative Publication
Your Powers are Formidable — Faultline, Volume 28, Spring 2019
Origin Story, Return — The Kindling #6
The Long Circuit — Hyphen Magazine
I Am Trying to Care about You as a Person but You Keep Turning Me into a Bear (Pushcart Prize nomination, Editors’ Prize Finalist), Not Cute, Work and Idolatry — Foothill Journal #8 (listen)
Sanctuary — Winner of the Academy of American Poets Prize
Apology for Bread — The Rupture (formerly The Collagist) #95
Throw Yourself Down from Here, The Source of the Darkness was Unconfirmed — descant #56
Proclamation, Wayang Wayang — LONTAR #9
Animating Principle, Goodness is a Fruit, Romance Novel, Toil — Softblow
Laurel — Rattle #54, Winter 2016
Tyranny — A Luxury We Must Afford: An Anthology of Singapore Poetry
Rapture of the Deep, Inquisition, Let’s Not Wait Until After the Apocalypse — dusie #19
Tragic Flaws — Singapore Poetry
At the Dentist in Michigan — 2015 Singapore Poetry Contest Winner
Essays & Reviews
Poetry Is What Gets Made In Translation: On E. J. Koh — Asian Books Blog
Boxes with Nothing Inside: Narratives of Loss in Yoko Ogawa’s The Memory Police — Fare Forward
Writing Before and After a Pandemic: Myths, Demons, and Healing — Centre for Stories
Poems That Can Save Your Life a Little: Two Poetry Playlists for Distressing Times — Zócalo Public Square
Home, Truly? with a curated playlist of songs for everyone caught between worlds, yearning for connection, and searching for who and what to call home — Localbooks.sg
“Crazy Rich Asians” isn’t Pride and Prejudice — it’s the Kardashians — Medium
Longing & Belonging: An Interview with Jennani Durai and Inez Tan — Mackerel
Something Familiar in the Astonishing: An Interview with Michael Andreasen — Michigan Quarterly Review
Review: State of Emergency by Jeremy Tiang — Singapore Unbound
Review: The Gatekeeper by Nuraliah Norasid — Singapore Unbound
Review: Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows by Balli Kaur Jaswal — Singapore Unbound
Featured in Civics Lessons From the 2016 Election — The Atlantic
You Have to Enjoy What You’re Doing in Order to Do Something Good — The Kairos Journal
Roleplaying Faith in Dragon Age: Inquisition — Fare Forward
Review: The Glass Cage by Nicholas Carr — Fare Forward
Review: The Empathy Exams by Leslie Jamison — Fare Forward
Review: When My Brother Was An Aztec by Natalie Diaz — Fare Forward
Disappearing Bodies (on Spencer Reece) — Fare Forward
Wooden Minds (on Flannery O’Connor) — Fare Forward
Interviews, Video, Podcasts, & Other Media
UCI Illuminations Faculty Author Series: Inez Tan in Conversation with New Forum (recorded livestreamed interview and fiction reading) —University of California, Irvine
The Political Possibilities of the Short Story with Nuraliah Norasid and Ricco Villanueva Siasoco (recorded livestreamed panel) — Singapore Literature Festival in New York City
Finding Her Place — University of California, Irvine News
“The Goose Girl” and “Lee Kuan Yew Is Not Always the Answer” (recorded livestreamed reading with poet Kat Finch) — Good Words Reading Series
Borderline Citizen: A Conversation with Robin Hemley — The Adroit Journal
“What Can Poetry Offer Us in Distressing Times?” (recorded livestreamed panel with Former United States Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera and Arizona Poet Laureate Alberto Ríos) — Zócalo Public Square
In the Green Room with Zócalo — Zócalo Public Square
How Will COVID-19 Change Higher Ed? (Season 2 Episode 3) — Consequential Podcast from Carnegie Mellon University’s Block Center for Technology and Society
A Space for Magnanimity: Talking with E. J. Koh — The Rumpus
The Multicultural Imagination in Contemporary American Poetry — Poets at Work Podcast, in association with Claremont Graduate University and the Kingsley and Kate Tufts Poetry Awards
A People and Their Stories: On the Writing of “Edison and Curie” — Read!Fest 2019, The Next Chapter Book Club, National Reading Movement, National Library Board Singapore
Interview: Inez Tan — Centre for Stories
Interview: Inez Tan on Fiction and Poetry — The Museum of Non-visible Art on Yale University Radio
On Writing Place: An Interview with Inez Tan — Michigan Quarterly Review
Interview: Inez Tan on This Is Where I Won’t Be Alone — Radio 938NOW, On the Scene with Eugene
