
Ally Chua is a Singaporean writer now based in Boston. She was the 2019 Singapore Unbound Fellow for New York City and a member of writing collective /s@ber. She has been published in Quarterly Literary Review Singapore, Cordite Poetry Review, and Salamander Magazine. She is the author of poetry collection Acts of Self Consumption (2023) by Australian press Recent Work Press, and novel The Disappearance of Patrick Zhou (2023) by Singapore press Epigram Books.
Ally is currently pursuing a Master of Arts in Public Relations at Emerson College, and serves as a Poetry Reader for Redivider Magazine. She is a member of the Singapore writing collective /s@ber. An avid solo traveler and reader, Ally finds inspiration from a wide variety of sources, including her travels, Richard Siken’s words, the lyrics of Brian Fallon, and zombie video games.
| Journal Publications | |
|---|---|
| Salamander Magazine Issue 54 | Lunar Cycle |
| SingPoWriMo Magazine | clean living |
| QLRS Vol. 21 No. 1 | Acts of Self Consumption |
| PodCastle 701 | (Flash Fiction) Catch |
| Anti-Heroin Chic | Monument Valley |
| The Phare | A Study of Three Bars in Brooklyn |
| SP Blog | Charades |
| Opia Magazine | The Boys in the Lineup |
| Wend Poetry | Sweetbread, Paper Universe, On Running |
| SP Blog | Brittle Nut |
| QlRS Vol. 19 No. 3 | (short story) Goodnight, 1314 |
| Truancy Magazine | The Great Banquet |
| Thimble Magazine | Blackbird Gallery |
| Of Zoos | Domestic Peace, Flowering Season |
| SingPoWriMo Magazine | the harvest and the woods |
| Lammergeier Magazine Issue 5 (Spring ’20) | cotton/mouth |
| Cordite 89: Domestic | strings |
| QLRS Vol. 18 No. 1 | Tangible |
| The Write Launch | Selkie, The Lives of Others, Dad |
| QLRS Vol. 17 No. 3 | Nothing in This House Works Anymore |
| Events & Readings | |
|---|---|
| The Suspect Reading | 30 June, 2022 |
| Spoke & Bird presents Caroline Teague & Ally Chua | 24 July, 2021 |
| One Step Closer | 9 August 2020 |
| Carnival of Poetry – Covid-19 Special | 17 May 2020 |
| Singapore Biennale 2019 | Art & Poetry: A Spoken Word Trail | March 2020 |
| [In New York City] Second Saturdays Reading Series | Oct 2019 |
| Singapore Unbound Fellowship – Award Event | 12 Jul 2019 |
| Spoke & Bird #17 presents: /s@ber | 15 Dec 2018 |
| Urban Ventures x Street Party: Wordsmithing Booth featuring /s@ber | 7 Jul 2018 |
| Anthologies | |
|---|---|
| New Singapore Poetries | Nov 2022 |
| Crazy Little Pyromaniacs | Oct 2020 |
| CONTOUR: A Lyric Cartography of Singapore | Nov 2019 |
| SingPoWriMo: The Anthology 2018 | Nov 2018 |
| SingPoWriMo: The Anthology 2017 | Nov 2017 |
| Reviews & Articles | |
|---|---|
| [Singapore Unbound] Review of Oddboy by Martin Jude Farawell | The Growth of a Man |
| [SingPoWriMo/2020] Article | Days Upon Days |
