Topaz Winters
Topaz Winters (born 1999) is the pen name of Singaporean writer Priyanka Balasubramanian Aiyer. She is the author of the poetry collections Portrait of My Body as a Crime I'm Still Committing and So, Stranger.
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Topaz Winters
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- Topaz Winters
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- 1999
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- United States
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- Poet
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- Princeton University
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• Name — Topaz Winters • Born — 1999 • Birthplace — United States • Occupation — Poet • Education — Princeton University • Website — topazwinters.com
Early life and education
Early life and education
Winters was born in the United States and raised in Singapore. She attended Princeton University, where she studied English and creative writing.
Career
Career
Winters's chapbook poems for the sound of the sky before thunder was published by Math Paper Press in 2017. Her collection Portrait of My Body as a Crime I'm Still Committing was first published in 2019 and reissued by Button Poetry in 2024. Her collection So, Stranger was published by Button Poetry in 2022. While studying at Princeton, Winters received the university's 2022 Academy of American Poets University & College Prize for the poem "It's Not That I'm Angry". Winters is founder and editor-in-chief of Half Mystic Press. In 2023, she co-founded the online literary magazine Kopi Break. Her poems have appeared in Poetry Northwest, The Drift, and Passages North. Her scholarly article "Queering Poetics: The Impact of Poetry on LGBT+ Identity in Singaporean Adolescents" was published in the Journal of Homosexuality.
Chapbooks
Chapbooks
• Heaven or This. 2016. • poems for the sound of the sky before thunder. Math Paper Press, 2017.
Poetry collections
• Portrait of My Body as a Crime I'm Still Committing. Button Poetry, 2019; reissued 2024. ISBN 9781733881609. • So, Stranger. Button Poetry, 2022. ISBN 9781638340249.
Scholarly articles
• "Queering Poetics: The Impact of Poetry on LGBT+ Identity in Singaporean Adolescents". Journal of Homosexuality, 67(2), 206–222. 2020. doi:10.1080/00918369.2018.1536415.
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- 1.Ho, Olivia. The 'rebel girls' of Singapore poetry: Young, outspoken and pushing boundaries. The Straits Times. 29 April 2019.
- 2.Topaz Winters, student and artist, makes meaning out of suffering. The Daily Princetonian.
- 3.So, Stranger. Button Poetry.
- 4.Poems For The Sound Of The Sky Before Thunder. Epigram Bookshop.
- 5.'All The Hope You've Ever Had' – An interview with Topaz Winters. The Kindling. 2019-07-27.
- 6.Topaz Winters. Button Poetry.
- 7.2022 Academy of American Poets Prize. Academy of American Poets.
- 8.Small Press Points: Half Mystic. Poets & Writers.
- 9.About. Kopi Break.
- 10.Winter & Spring 2025. Poetry Northwest.
- 11.Idol. The Drift. 2024-03-12.
- 12.Issue 45. Passages North.
- 13.Aiyer, Priyanka. Queering Poetics: The Impact of Poetry on LGBT+ Identity in Singaporean Adolescents. Journal of Homosexuality. 67. 2. 206–222. 2020. 10.1080/00918369.2018.1536415.
- 14.Portrait of My Body as a Crime I'm Still Committing. Button Poetry.
- 15.Neugebauer, Samantha. Sounds of Want & Pain. Singapore Unbound. 23 December 2019.
- 16.Togut, Ben. Poet Topaz Winters curates a soulful night of music and verse at 'So, Stranger' launch. The Village Sun. 18 August 2022.
- 17.poems for the sound of the sky before thunder. BooksActually.
- 18.Aiyer, Priyanka. Queering Poetics: The Impact of Poetry on LGBT+ Identity in Singaporean Adolescents. Journal of Homosexuality. 67. 2. 206–222. 28 January 2020. 0091-8369.
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