👋🏽 My name is Po. Also Manik, Tukai, Patu, Pathikrit, depending on who you ask.
✍🏽 I’m a fiction writer at the New Writers Project in Austin, TX. My fearless agent is Laura Gross.
🧬 Previously, I designed research software for biologists, at Benchling.
🤸🏽 Mastery is fun, dabbling is funner. I dabble often. Scroll down for proof.
🏔️ I'm an amateur mountaineer.
[Figure 2] On top of Mount Shasta (14,180′). USA, 2016.
🦏 I love wild places and the creatures that live there.
[Figure 3] California condor and raven. Pinnacles National Park, USA, 2017.
[Figure 4] African elephant. Tarangire National Park, Tanzania, 2015.
[Figure 5] Wildebeest migration from a plane. Serengeti National Park, Tanzania, 2015.
[Figure 6] Juvenile Burchell's zebra. Kruger National Park, South Africa, 2012.
🗯️ I make bold claims.
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😴 😀 😉 😀 😲 😉 🤗 😴 🤕 😀 I'm more than the sum of my emojis. 😫 😗 😵 🤗 😗 😴 😀 😴 😀 😉
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[Figure 7] Untitled, 2019.
📓 I collect spectacular sentences.
I stopped smugly repeating 'Everything that can be thought at all can be thought clearly' and wondered anew, can everything be thought.
—Maggie Nelson, The Argonauts
Cannery Row in Monterey in California is a poem, a stink, a grating noise, a quality of light, a tone, a habit, a nostalgia, a dream.
—John Steinbeck, Cannery Row
Journeys end in lovers’ meeting.
—William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?
—Mary Oliver, The Summer Day
🎭 I'm a comic and a critic.
[Figure 8] Civilization and its Discontents/Shitty Math, 2018.
🔬 In a previous life, I told stories about science.
[Figure 9] The Life and Times of the Lancet Liver Fluke, 2012.
[Figure 10] The Central Limit Theorem, 2013.
[Figure 11] Suddenly Visible, 2014.
Colophon
This handmade, artisanal website is hosted on Github. My code is your code.
These pages are typeset in Inter, Crimson, and Share Tech Mono.
For a surrealist account of this site's birth, read Breathing Fire and Other Skills.