Alison Tam


Nonfiction

Here's some of my nonfiction writing from across the internet:
  • Four Meals, One Chicken, a recipe featured on Fran Wilde's Book Bites.
  • Navigating patriarchal institutions and personal power in Ōoku, an analytical feature on AnimeFeminist.
  • Coming Out to My Overseas Family, a personal essay at On She Goes.
  • When I came out to my mom, she was scared for me, an essay about my sexuality and Taiwanese womanhood at TaiwaneseAmerican.Org.
  • The Drag Kings of Taipei, an essay about doing drag, being a diaspora kid and how sometimes they're the same.
  • Fiction

  • My short story, Beauty, Glory, Thrift, was published by the Book Smugglers June 2017. It's a science-fiction story about a thief who accidentally downloads something that thinks she's a goddess into her brain.
  • My short story, Margo Lai's Guide To Dueling Unprepared, was in Silk & Steel, A Queer Speculative Adventure Anthology. It's an idiots-to-lovers romance about a girl who has to fight a wizard's duel despite not being a wizard and the lawyer's daughter who loves her.
  • I wrote the Dragon Diplobrats reskin on Stentor Danielson's More Kittens.