Topaz Winters
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Topaz Winters | |
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| Born | 1999 (age 26–27) United States |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Nationality | Singaporean |
| Alma mater | Princeton University |
| Genre | Poetry, essays |
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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]
Early life and education
[edit]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
[edit]Winters's chapbook poems for the sound of the sky before thunder was published by Math Paper Press in 2017.[4] Her full-length collection Portrait of My Body as a Crime I'm Still Committing was first published in 2019 and later reissued by Button Poetry in a fifth-anniversary edition.[2][5] Her collection So, Stranger was published by Button Poetry in 2022.[3]
The Straits Times included Winters in a 2019 article on young Singaporean poets described as "outspoken" and "pushing boundaries".[1] Her writing has addressed illness, family, migration, queerness, and mental health.[2] As a student at Princeton, Winters received Princeton University's 2022 Academy of American Poets College and University Prize for the poem "It's Not That I'm Angry".[6]
Winters is editor-in-chief of Half Mystic, a literary journal and small press.[7] In 2023, she co-founded the online literary magazine Kopi Break with Max Pasakorn and Kendrick Loo.[8]
Winters wrote and appeared in the 2017 short film SUPERNOVA, directed by Ishan Modi.[9] With Crispin Rodrigues, she co-curated the digital art installation "Letters From Home to Home" for the 2020 Singapore Writers Festival.[10] She has appeared at literary and arts events including the Singapore Writers Festival and the YoungArts gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.[1][11]
Her scholarly article "Queering Poetics: The Impact of Poetry on LGBT+ Identity in Singaporean Adolescents" was published in the Journal of Homosexuality.[12]
Selected works
[edit]Poetry collections
[edit]Chapbooks
[edit]- Heaven or This. 2016.
- poems for the sound of the sky before thunder. Math Paper Press, 2017.[4]
Scholarly articles
[edit]- "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.[12]
References
[edit]- 1 2 3 4 Ho, Olivia (29 April 2019). "The 'rebel girls' of Singapore poetry: Young, outspoken and pushing boundaries". The Straits Times. Archived from the original on 31 December 2025. Retrieved 27 April 2026.
- 1 2 3 4 "Topaz Winters, student and artist, makes meaning out of suffering". The Daily Princetonian. Retrieved 17 February 2021.
- 1 2 3 "So, Stranger". Button Poetry. Retrieved 22 May 2022.
- 1 2 "poems for the sound of the sky before thunder". BooksActually. Archived from the original on 29 January 2018. Retrieved 6 August 2020.
- 1 2 "Portrait of My Body as a Crime I'm Still Committing". Button Poetry. Retrieved 19 November 2023.
- ↑ "2022 Academy of American Poets University Prizes - Princeton University". Poets.org. Retrieved 19 November 2023.
- ↑ "Topaz Winters: On Music, Tech And Writing". Lifestyle Guide. Retrieved 6 August 2020.
- ↑ "About". Kopi Break. Retrieved 10 August 2023.
- ↑ Tan, Megan (11 August 2018). "A new chapter for SingLit". The Business Times. Retrieved 6 August 2020.
- ↑ "Singapore Writers Festival - Letters from Home to Home". Singapore Writers Festival. Retrieved 17 February 2021.
- ↑ "Emerging Talent and Legendary Artists Celebrated The YoungArts Gala at The Metropolitan Museum of Art". Vogue. 9 April 2024. Retrieved 15 April 2024.
- 1 2 Aiyer, Priyanka (28 January 2020). "Queering Poetics: The Impact of Poetry on LGBT+ Identity in Singaporean Adolescents". Journal of Homosexuality. 67 (2): 206–222. doi:10.1080/00918369.2018.1536415. ISSN 0091-8369. PMID 30407889. S2CID 53236989.
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