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Alison Clara Tan

Alison Clara Tan is a Southeast Asian writer based in London. Her poetry appears or is forthcoming in fourteen poems, Gutter, and Washington Square Review, among other publications. She is a Barbican Young Poet, a Brooklyn Poets Fellow, and a member of the London Writers Centre’s 2025 Poetics Lab.

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Record of First Love

By Alison Clara Tan

The Kenyon Review · “Record of First love” by Allison Clara Tan I never told you we were girls then —  we’d never seen snow — only the way we sunk teethinto lipsticks, […]