
Highway Mothercode
“You tied a red string around my ankle, / saying this is how we will remember, // The faux-umbilical noose criminal”
Sher Ting is a Singaporean-Chinese writer. She is a 2021 Writeability Fellow with Writers Victoria, and a member of The Kenyon Review’s Winter Workshop 2023 and Tin House’s Winter Workshop 2024. She has work published in Prairie Schooner, Pleiades, Gulf Coast, AGNI, Colorado Review, Salt Hill, OSU The Journal, and elsewhere. Her first chapbook, Bodies of Separation, is published with Cathexis Northwest Press and second chapbook, The Long-Lasting Grief of Foxes, is published with Mouthfeel Press. Her full-length poetry collection, Burn After Dawn, is published with Landmark Books. She tweets at @sherttt and writes at sherting.com
“You tied a red string around my ankle, / saying this is how we will remember, // The faux-umbilical noose criminal”