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Why do we love in the way that we do? This debut collection by Kimberley Chia Qin takes up the question through the lens of girls coming into their womanhood, and the messy inheritances that shape them. At once a reckoning and a toast, these poems move through family, grief, illness, and a host of other growing pains—tracing how they bind us, how they break us, and how they bequeath us a license to love.
Hot Girls Have Stomach Issues is a remedy against that age-old problem: not quite being a girl, not yet calling oneself a woman. Its poems reach across time and space to gather at a dining table laden with ginseng, kueh, and cut fruit, offering a feast of loss, stolen intimacies and other tender cuts of the human condition—first as a way to live with themselves, and then, finally, as a way to thrive. They ask us all to sit, and eat.
Hot Girls Have Stomach Issues is a remedy against that age-old problem: not quite being a girl, not yet calling oneself a woman. Its poems reach across time and space to gather at a dining table laden with ginseng, kueh, and cut fruit, offering a feast of loss, stolen intimacies and other tender cuts of the human condition—first as a way to live with themselves, and then, finally, as a way to thrive. They ask us all to sit, and eat.
Why do we love in the way that we do? This debut collection by Kimberley Chia Qin takes up the question through the lens of girls coming into their womanhood, and the messy inheritances that shape them. At once a reckoning and a toast, these poems move through family, grief, illness, and a host o...
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Kimberley Chia Qin (b.1999, she/her) is a writer and movement-maker who creates as an act of tenderness. Her poetry has been published in ANMLY, Kopi Break Poetry and Sine Theta Magazine, among others, and has been nominated for the Best Small Fictions and Best of the Net anthologies. As a performance poet, she is interested in stretching the borders of spoken word. She has been featured at venues in Singapore and France, and debuted her multidisciplinary spoken word and dance set at triple bill Out and Up in 2025. Hot Girls Have Stomach Issues is her debut collection of poetry.
Kimberley Chia Qin (b.1999, she/her) is a writer and movement-maker who creates as an act of tenderness. Her poetry has been published in ANMLY, Kopi Break Poetry and Sine Theta Magazine, among others, and has been nominated for the Best Small Fictions and Best of the Net anthologies. As a perfor...
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