Max Pasakorn (he/she/they, in no particular order) is a writer of creative nonfiction and poetry, whose works revolve around food, queerness and popular culture. They have lived in Thailand, Singapore and the United States.

An alumnus of the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, the Lambda Literary Retreat for Emerging LGBTQ+ writers, Max holds a BA in Arts & Humanities (Creative Writing) from Yale-NUS College.

Max’s debut nonfiction chapbook, A Study in Our Selves, won the OutWrite 2022 Chapbook Competition (Nonfiction) selected by Joseph Osmundson and was published by Neon Hemlock Press in 2023. Max’s other short-form works have won the 2024 swamp pink Prize in Nonfiction and the 2022 Chestnut Review Stubborn Writers’ Contest in Poetry.

Read Max’s work, which has been published in venues such as Split Lip Magazine, Witness, Foglifter, ANMLY and SUSPECT here.

Max is a founding co-editor of Kopi Break, a poetry magazine-newsletter which aims to platform voices from Singapore and the Singaporean diaspora, and the creative nonfiction editor of Perks of Being Dumped, an anthology of local heartbreak writing, published by Marshall Cavendish in 2024.

Max also currently serves as a Poetry Reader at Split Lip Magazine.

Follow Max on Twitter at @62purcenthomo and follow Max on Instagram at @maxpasakorn and @maxpsk_writes.