Tessa Kaur (they/them) is a video game journalist and critic by day, and an essayist by night. Born and raised in Singapore, their work has been published in Mahogany Journal and Barnstorm Journal, and they were a finalist in the 2023 Iowa Review Awards in non-fiction. 

A short audio drama episode on coming back from emotionally spinning out.

Ground Yourself with Eva

On growing up biracial in race-conscious Singapore.

Rojak

On Asian mothers, mental illness that runs in the blood, and how every generation struggles to face things their parents never talked about.

Heritable

About my grandmother, a heritage betrayed, and never belonging to a group.

Selected work