Jess Chua

Poet, Fiction Writer

SW Florida, FL

Florida US

Website:

jesschua.com

Twitter/X:

@JessWriting

Author's Bio

Jess Chua's debut chapbook about heartbreak, let it rip, was published in late summer 2023 (Bottlecap Press).

A Musepaper.org essay prize winner, her poems, flash fiction, and essays have appeared in or are forthcoming in 34th Parallel Magazine, The Five-Two, and Whale Road Review. Her genre work has appeared in Mystery Tribune and Black Hare Press anthologies.

She works as a content specialist and is aiming to complete a couple of short story collections. Her hobbies include yoga, sketching, astrology, and slowly overcoming her occasional speech anxiety through microcasting.

Publications & Prizes

Fiction

Anthologies:

Ho Ho Ho (Macabre Minima, #1) (Black Hare Press, 2023)

50 Give or Take, #1 (Vine Leaves Press, 2021)

Gluttony (Black Hare Press, 2021)

Watch (Black Hare Press, 2021)

Journals:

101 Words

365 Tomorrows

Bards and Sages Quarterly

Mystery Tribune

Word Riot

Poetry

Chapbook:

let it rip (Bottlecap Press, 2023)

Journals:

34thParallel

Cha: An Asian Literary Journal

Five-Two

Mirror Dance

Prizes won:

Monthly Musepaper Award for my essay, “The One,” from the literary journal New Millennium Writings (2020).
Runner-Up in the “Mysterious Photograph” contest at Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine (Jan/Feb 2021).