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Premrudee Mepremwattana
(she/her) Mentee
Premrudee (Premmy) Mepremwattana is a junior in Thailand, who spends summers in North Carolina. Having been recognized by the Alliance for Young Writers and Artists, she serves as founder and co-editor-in-chief for the Alexandrian Review and edits for other magazines. She is also the co-president of Fifty Squared, a UN-recognized nonprofit feminist organization, and is dedicated to amplifying voices among marginalized and underrepresented communities. When not reading, writing, or getting too emotionally invested in fictional characters, she spends her time drinking bubble tea and creating memories with friends and family. She loves being a part of Girls Write Now.
Favorite Authors & Artists
Ashley Woodfolk, Alice Oseman, Angie Thomas
Artist‘s Statement
I write when I feel the heat pierce my stomach, when it grows and grows, a wild, ugly flower of grime and ash. This silent storm drives my need to put my stories down on paper. The stories I tell are raw, honest, fragile, and stripped of the garments of pretension– my definition of beautiful. I write for myself, the different versions of myself I see in others, for representation, for visibility, and as author Ashley Woodfolk said it best, for the slightest possibility that my stories can hold others as they cry the way writing those stories held me.
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If Only I Could Speak
When you go from Thailand to North Carolina, more than the spoken language changes—the box you’re put in does as well.