Max Pasakorn is the author of creative nonfiction chapbook A Study in Our Selves (Neon Hemlock Press, 2023). An alumnus of the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, the Lambda Literary Retreat for Emerging LGBTQ+ writers and Yale-NUS College, Max has previously lived in Singapore, Thailand and the United States. Max’s writing, which sits at the crossroads of queerness, food and popular culture, has won the 2024 swamp pink prize in Nonfiction and the Chestnut Review Stubborn Writers’ Contest in Poetry. Read more at maxpasakorn.works or follow Max on Instagram at @maxpsk_writes.