Mandy Moe Pwint Tu

Mandy Moe Pwint Tu is a writer and a poet from Yangon, Myanmar. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in POETRY, Guernica, Beloit Poetry Journal, and elsewhere. She is the Hoffman-Halls Emerging Artist Fellow at the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing and is the author of two poetry chapbooks, MONSOON DAUGHTER (Thirty West Publishing House, 2022) and UNSPRUNG (Newfound, 2023). “This is My” is her debut fiction piece.

Content by Mandy Moe Pwint Tu

Fiction,

This Is My

BY Mandy Moe Pwint Tu

‘Is that common?’ I ask Lee during a lull in the conversation. ‘Hurling cabbages over with catapults?’

‘What, you don’t have catapults in Myanmar?’ Lee quips. ‘Or cabbages?’

‘Well, we use coconuts,’ I say, and the audience laughs.

‘What, for catapults?’

Rod jumps in. ‘Ignore him, Thandar. You haven’t been in the U.K. for very long, have you?’

‘I arrived about four years ago,’ I tell him. ‘Bit of a culture shock.’