Jess Chua

Poet, Fiction Writer

ME
Maine US
Website: 
jesschua.com
Twitter/X: 
@JessWriting
RSS feed: 
jesschua.com/feed

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.

Her hobbies include yoga, sketching, and astrology. She is currently working on her first dragon poetry collection, available via Dragonsinn.net (est. 1999 | https://www.dragonsinn.net)

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: 
  • Dark Poets Prize: Edition IV (Honorable Mention; 2025).
  • 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).

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Personal Favorites

Favorite authors: 
Too many to list...but I'll always love Poe, Oscar Wilde, Langston Hughes, George Orwell, Liz Greene, and J. G. Ballard.
What I'm reading now: 
The Illustrated Courtroom: 50+ Years of Court Art by Elizabeth Williams, Sue Russell, Langston Hughes: Poems (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series) by Langston Hughes

More Information

Identifies as: 
Mixed-Race, Southeast Asian
Prefers to work with: 
Any
Born in: 
Singapore
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Last update: Jul 02, 2026