Para Vadhahong is a Thai diaspora poet, artist, and MFA candidate in Seattle. They have lived in Bangkok, Houston, Roanoke, and South Florida. Their writing tends to explore mythology, fairy tales, prayer, immigration, and the nebulous concept of being "from" somewhere.

Their creative & editorial work has received the support of Brooklyn Poets, The Poetry Lab, and The Seventh Wave.

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"A taut glimpse that gestures richly and evocatively towards a whole universe of story. Above all, I love how we’re plunged right into the very particular world of these two young girls and their visceral bond, its intimacy and rituals. With perfect, crystalline details, the author not only evokes the tensions and desires of coming of age, the heady dreaminess of friendship, but leaves us too with the mystery of all that is unsaid."
Mona Awad, judge for the 2022 Arthur Flowers Flash Fiction Prize

“One of the things I turn to poetry for is to have my relationship with language renewed: to freshly feel its power and its limitations. Language is central to how we understand what we’re experiencing. This poem urges us to think about what linguistic and literary mastery means for those who have come to English through loss or imposition. Its lines dance deftly with danger and dispossession. I found its piercing questions and “turns of phrase” unforgettable.”
Evie Shockley, Guest Judge, 2023 Sappho Prize for Women Poets