Michelle Aung Thin

Michelle Aung Thin was born in Burma, raised in Canada and writes about negotiating hybrid identity. Her novel, The Monsoon Bride (Text), is about the Anglo-Burmese in colonial Burma. Her current project crosses contemporary Yangon with historical Rangoon (funded by Asialink, Creative Victoria, Australia Council and Canada Council). She is also working on a book about Rohingya displacement. Michelle teaches at RMIT University.

Articles by Michelle Aung Thin:

Published in Overland Issue 236 Spring 2019

Judges’ notes | VU Short Story Prize

Pip Adam, Enza Gandolfo, Michelle Aung Thin and Steven Amsterdam

The stories submitted for the 2019 VU Short Story Prize were incredibly impressive. Even the long list I read would make an amazing snapshot of the short story in 2019. In the end, I chose the stories that moved something inside me – a twist that made my stomach drop, a perfectly imagined moment that moved me to tears, a clever wit that made me laugh out loud.

Published in Overland Issue 231 Winter 2018

Tea ceremony

Michelle Aung Thin

Jab. ‘$679. Your original price.’ Jab. ‘$649. Your reduced price.’ Jab, jab. ‘$629. Your additional discount from your $20 gift card.’ I was pretty sure he was wrong. I thought he’d rung up $20, not $629. But the bill was a little too far away for me to see it clearly and he was making such a big thing about it in front of all those people that I just apologised, another middle-aged sans papiers among the digital natives. He folded my receipt back into the bag and smiled.