Topaz Winters
Singaporean writer
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Topaz Winters (born 1999) is the pen name of Singaporean writer Priyanka Balasubramanian Aiyer.[1] She is the author of the poetry collections Portrait of My Body as a Crime I'm Still Committing and So, Stranger.[2][3]
Topaz Winters | |
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| Born | 1999 (age 26–27) United States |
| Education | Princeton University |
| Occupation | Poet |
| Website | topazwinters |
Early life and education
Winters was born in the United States and raised in Singapore.[1] She attended Princeton University, where she studied English and creative writing.[2]
Career
Winters's chapbook poems for the sound of the sky before thunder was published by Math Paper Press in 2017.[4] Her collection Portrait of My Body as a Crime I'm Still Committing was first published in 2019 and reissued by Button Poetry in 2024.[5][6] Her collection So, Stranger was published by Button Poetry in 2022.[6]
While studying at Princeton, Winters received the university's 2022 Academy of American Poets University & College Prize for the poem "It's Not That I'm Angry".[7]
Winters is founder and editor-in-chief of Half Mystic Press.[8] In 2023, she co-founded the online literary magazine Kopi Break.[9] Her poems have appeared in Poetry Northwest, The Drift, and Passages North.[10][11][12]
Her scholarly article "Queering Poetics: The Impact of Poetry on LGBT+ Identity in Singaporean Adolescents" was published in the Journal of Homosexuality.[13]
Selected works
Poetry collections
Chapbooks
- Heaven or This. 2016.
- poems for the sound of the sky before thunder. Math Paper Press, 2017.[17]
Scholarly articles
- "Queering Poetics: The Impact of Poetry on LGBT+ Identity in Singaporean Adolescents". Journal of Homosexuality, 67(2), 206–222. 2020. doi:10.1080/00918369.2018.1536415.[18]