under perpetual (de-/re-) construction

about me

i write poetry & weird prose* under/as t.r. san. i am rakhine + transgender + a lesbian; i was/am loosely based in yangon, but i move around a lot; a lot of my friends are in bangkok & chiang mai. an incomplete list of influences include qiu miaojin, helen oyeyemi, [sarah] Cavar, k-ming chang, jos charles, layli long soldier, greer lankton, & alice notley. i enjoy discussing/ writing on/ reading about shoujosei anime & manga (particularly the year 24 group), yuri, materialist transfeminism, radical feminist movements in the global south, queer epistolaries, the modernist and postmodernist novel, postmodernism & institutionalization of the avant garde, & anti- & trans-formal & -genric prose //+ poetry. my name/pseudonym is not, as many surprisingly seem to think, an anagram of "trans".

* mostly flash fiction, though lately i've been fleshing out more longform prose projects. i loathe the term experimental fiction, because (sub)genric categorization of any kind entails forcible association with certain stylistic and structural choices that paradoxically become conventions of what is supposed to be free of or against (institutionally backed/ demanded) convention. that said, a lot of my fictions are experiments, so i will occasionally use it in reference to my work.