Photo of me smiling and looking at the camera.

Natalie Yap

(writer)

Hello

Natalie Yap (she/her) is a writer born and raised in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. As a storyteller, she is preoccupied with examining the themes of inheritance, family, and identity through a Malaysian-Chinese lens.Her writing has been featured or is forthcoming in venues such as Porter House Review, The Cincinnati Review, and elsewhere. Right now, she is slowly but surely working on a novel and a collection of short stories.


Prose

妈妈
Porter House Review, December 2021 (Online)

Sap
Emerge Literary Journal, Issue 21, January 2022 (Online)

Santa Maria
miCRo, The Cincinnati Review, May 2022 (Online)

Searching in Places
Pithead Chapel, October 2022 (Online)

Inner Beautiful Wellness Center
AAWW: The Margins, April 2023 (Online)


Feel free to say hi.