select works (optimized for desktop viewing)2026Burial Magazine “motel psychosis"X-R-A-Y “Natural Born Killers" + “Erotes, Push-Pulls, Transactions, Economies" (forthcoming)Some Words “haunt me" (forthcoming)Glass: A Journal of Poetry “cracked nutshell" (forthcoming)2025The Offing “false revelation"HAD “& so there must be"Smokelong Quarterly “Boys" 🎧
• Interview w/ Kelly PedroANMLY “we used to be runaways in an abandoned airport" + “sex memoir abecedarian" 🎧Michigan City Review of Books “saw an angel kick a snail"BRUISER "Fixation"South Florida Poetry Journal “no lights, camera" 🎧The Cincinnati Review “Abecedarian Failing the Bildungsroman Formula" (archived) + “Audiophile Claustrophobe Abecedarian on a Road Trip" (archived)& here to see select older work :)

t.r. sanrakhine-“burmese" lesbian poet-writer; non-/trans- binary;
2024 Best of the Net in Poetry;
2026 Best of the Net in Poetry nominee;
fixations: body, language, forms, gaze;
at work on the cyborg cycleagainst the anglolyric's contriving of/for “revelations"; against language unchallenged as is; against syntactic determination of what is ontologized to & of the (poetic) body; against indulgence in sentiment; against “representation"; for interrogation of the naturalized; for radical expansion work on semiotic possibiities; for mathematical symbols; for a felt coldness; for situating sentiment; for fucking grammar, invert-renderingan incomplete list of influences: qiu miaojin, djuna barnes, renee gladman, ava hofmann, carrie lorig, helen oyeyemi, [sarah] Cavar, k-ming chang, aung cheimt, jos charles, layli long soldier, greer lankton, alice notley, georges bataille, douglas kearney, ...♡ discussing/ writing on/ reading about: trans +// lesbian subject formations & desire negotiations, 2000s-2010s alt j-rock, shoujosei anime & manga (esp. grounded josei human dramas and the year 24 group), yuri, materialist transfeminism/s, queer epistolary art, the modernist novel, the contemporary burmese novel + its slow evolution away from khit-san nationalist ethos & khit-por occidentalist pastiche, translation in practice, translation in theory, dolls, robots, ...i stand & act against the neocolonial zionist & burmanization projectsmy name/pseudonym is not, as many surprisingly seem to think, an anagram of “trans"& lately,my favorite musicians are backxwash & ptite soeur & yikii & teaadora. i love revolutionary girl utena & nanae haruno's double house & nananan kiriko manga & ikoku nikki & chainsaw man. my favorite movie is funeral parade of roses (1969) dir. toshio matsumoto. i love my friends' art. i love when friends & lovers make art together or in interdependent practice of respective crafts, which is to say i buy into the new york school hype & am more than happy to collaborate on projects if we know each other ♡ i'm working on my debut collection with/about robotgirls & helping my friends with their translation of the french rap project pretty dollcorpsei'm also poetry co-editor of sabr tooth tiger magazine alongside minghan zhouplease note that i am occasionally inactive & irresponsive, but i appreciate any & all correspondence with fellow readers & writers. e-mail is the best way to reach me, always ♡

projects

CONTENERE (2026)
a hybrid novella co-written with my friend frenchie; deconstructing The Girl & The Doll; lie of difference + truth in likeness & rhyme of all forms, emergent from the same flesh & of equal ontological weight; embodiment as & via craft; magical drive of desire; weird lonely little girls; complications of gender for weird lonely lesbians

2025 (2025)
stitched together a section each from every piece i put out in 2025, with own footage, soundtracked by jamison bleached waters' “e: please come home"

select works (optimized for desktop viewing)2026Hayden's Ferry Review “beach homing timefishers" [forthcoming]
bur-eng translation of Min Chit Paing's အချိန်မျှားသူတွေနေတဲ့ကမ်းခြေ

selected older worksJAKE a playlist centoBeaver Magazine “summer is coming soon & i will get a lot better"Full Mood Magazine “i'm every sparkly machine"The Dawn Review “barber on [] island"
• Anthologization in Best of the Net 2024Bending Genres “matrilineality in walls | scalp [|] disorders"Cobra Milk Magazine “Sour Grilled Home for Dinner"beestung magazine “introduction to t.r. san’s self &/or body &/or craft &/or hypocrisy"New Note Poetry “self-portrait at nine in the morning reading letters my mirror sends me" [Page 6]Angel Rust Magazine “When We Slur Our Own Waters"Corporeal Magazine 3 Poemsfifth wheel press “collapse" (reprint)ZVONA i NARI “i shut my thumb between the sash & sill of a window"Major 7th Magazine “This House"Erato Magazine “Thuzar's Door"