Chris TSE

A portrait of Chris Tse.
  • Oceania
  • Australia and New Zealand
  • New Zealand
English

Chris TSE (poet, editor, nonfiction writer; New Zealand) is the author of the poetry collections How to Be Dead in a Year of Snakes (2014), HE’S SO MASC (2018), and Super Model Minority (2022), the latter of which was a finalist for the 2023 Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry. He coedited Out Here: An Anthology of Takatāpui and LGBTQIA+ Writers from Aotearoa (2021). In 2016, he received the Jessie Mackay Award for Best First Book of Poetry at the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. Tse is the current New Zealand Poet Laureate. His participation was made possible by a grant from Creative New Zealand.

Happening Now

  • In a recent Haaretz piece, Odeh Bisharat describes the efforts of the Arab-Jewish solidarity movement Standing Together to collect food for needy Gazans as well as build a long-term political coalition.

  • Among the upcoming titles at the lively regional CEEOL Press is 1945 and Other Stories., an English translation of Gábor Szántó’s Hungarian original.

  • An excerpt from Lidija Dimkovska’s most recent novel [Personal Identity Number] appears in the July 2024 issue of World Literature Today.

  • The Spring 2024 issue of the Michigan Quarterly Review features an excerpt from Amira-Géhanne Khalfallah’s new novel Onboard the Amsterdam or, the Last Voyage of Ibn Battûta,  surveying the burning topics of migrancy, radicalization, and exile. 
     

  • In an opinion piece for NYTimes, Veronica Raimo plumbs the (shallow) depths of Italian women’s media representation.

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