t.r. san

burmese transsexual poet
writing horror without meaning
to. hole theorist, water
speaker/dialectician.
t.r. san is inspired
by the works of Qiu Miaojin,
Helen Oyeyemi & jos charles,
Buddhist (de/re)constructions
of (non-)selfhood, & the fact
of a body. it mirrors too hard
and walks like shells on display.

Selected Works


poetry

Full Mood Magazine
i'm every sparkly machine
Major 7th Magazine
This House
Angel Rust Magazine
When We Slur Our Own Waters
Corporeal
+ Country Roads Between Fields That the Military Seized Will Take Me to the Ultimate Home
+ my own private nonexistence
+ pluto probably has a hole in his heart and we will never know
- Please zoom in/out accordingly so that the third piece can be read as 2 columns.
fifth wheel press
collapse (reprint)
New Note Poetry
self-portrait at nine in the morning reading letters my mirror sends me
- Page 6
ZiN Daily
i shut my thumb between the sash & sill of a window
The Dawn Review
Barber on [] Island
- 2024 Best of the Net Anthology nomination
JAKE
trans girl stuff playlist, 3.7k likes, "so not all of it is trans femme but it's a playlist i listen to when i'm dysphoric"



Flash Fiction

Erato Magazine
Thuzar's Door
- Page 7
Cobra Milk Magazine
Sour Grilled Home for Dinner
Fish Barrel Review
Astronomical Bodies


Forthcoming

Poetry

beestung
introduction to t.r. san’s self &/or body &/or craft &/or hypocrisy


All Publications

pieces not featured in "Selected Publications"Mister Magazine
Disappointing Prior Walter the Thirty-Fourth
VIBE
The Pronoun Poem They Teach at Transsexual High
Five South Journal
When the Writer Tries to Make Numbness Humane
Fear and Trembling: A Community Horror Zine
On Nighttime Hunger and Actual, Real Bodies
the lickety~split
1902
Travesties?! Press
My Trans Body As Karmic Vengeance
Karma Comes Before
Forgive Me for I Have
the tide rises, the tide falls
Goodbye
- collaboration with Snigdha Garud
The Eunoia Review
Love (Making) Language