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
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
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
