May Ngo

May Ngo is a Teochew Chinese Cambodian Australian who currently lives in Prague. She is a former academic in anthropology and is currently a freelance writer and editor as well as founder of the Prague Writers Workshop. She has previously been published in Meanjin, Sydney Review of Books, Kill Your Darlings, Mascara Literary Review, diaCRITICS and Pleiades magazine.

Works By May Ngo

Sharpening Sentences
Even if Louis, by becoming an international best-selling author has ostensibly left his class background, he knows, as I do, that you never really leave.
12 Feb. 2023
Moving Up
And I think this is where I was previously mistaken. I thought Strout’s books are about class, and they are, but in a much more specific sense – they are really about social mobility.
11 Sept. 2022
The Scaffold Falls Away
Lemon begins like a conventional crime novel – there’s a detective interrogating a suspect, trying to pin the murder of a young woman onto an obviously vulnerable young man.
13 June. 2022
See You At The DMZ
We can view Don Mee Choi as a kind of bricoleur in DMZ Colony; a quilt maker, image assembler, improviser, who uses multiple tools – research, fiction, memoir – to assemble the beginnings of an archive.
8 May. 2022
Safe Havens
The rush to push out COVID literature and thinkpieces is troubling, if only because surely the pandemic has taught us the value of slowing down, of being wary of endless production in all its forms. Surely, the pandemic should have taught us, if n...
27 Mar. 2022
Making Craft Conscious
Salesses asks what forms of fiction writing, and hence ways of being in the world, are marginalised in conventional understandings of craft? Conversely, how do different ways of being in the world – that is, not being part of the culturally domina...
17 Nov. 2021
Precarious Fairy Tales
Like many fairy tales that are about coming of age, this novel also explores girlhood, but a girlhood that is indelibly formed by race and most of all — by class.
18 Aug. 2021
Shopping Night
Growing up, I saw negative media depictions of Asians and migrants and I didn’t want to be lumped into the same category as them. I didn’t want to confront questions of race and belonging. I didn’t want to examine my identity and culture, particul...
11 June. 2020

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May Ngo

Works By May Ngo

Sharpening Sentences

Moving Up

The Scaffold Falls Away

See You At The DMZ

Safe Havens

Making Craft Conscious

Precarious Fairy Tales

Shopping Night