Jamie Uy

Jamie is the Programme Director, Co-Founder, and former Editor-in-Chief of Parallel Ink, an online literary and art publication for youth. She was a Commended Foyle Young Poet of the Year in 2012, one of the winning poets of Cape Farewell/Poetry Society’s SWITCH Challenge in 2014, and a poetry mentee in The Adroit Journal’s Summer Mentorship Program in 2015. Her prose was recently recognised in the 2016 Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, and her writing has appeared in The Huffington Post, Singapore American, The F (Finely Filipino) Magazine, Rattle Young Poets Anthology, Germ Magazine, and Miracle, among other publications. Besides creative writing, she is fascinated by film, TV, and fan culture, and hopes to major in Film & Media Studies in the future.