Para Vadhahong is a Thai American writer who grew up all over the place, and is still in search of somewhere to put down roots. Their poetry and fiction explore themes of mythology, storytelling, coming of age, ancestry, migrations, romance, and homelands. Some other poetry-adjacent stuff they love: The Half of It (2020), Rococo paintings, papaya, moon motifs.

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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