Chi M. Pham is a writer from Houston, Texas. Chi studies Cognitive Sciences, English, and Media Studies at Rice University. His work has appeared in SmokeLong Quarterly, dekopon!, and Dizzy TV. He was the recipient of the 2025 Susan Wood Prize in Poetry and runner-up for the 2025 SmokeLong Quarterly Prize for Flash Fiction.

Chi is currently Assistant Arts & Entertainment editor for The Rice Thresher, where he was awarded by the Associated Collegiate Press for an article on his lovely artist-engineer friend, saba Feleke. He is interested in information, storytelling, digital media, language, and your mind.

Reach Chi at seaheye@gmail.com.

Poetry Three Poems, Fondren Library (Winner, 2025 Susan Wood Prize for Poetry)

Fiction Man Spelt Backwards, SmokeLong Quarterly (Second Place, 2025 SmokeLong Quarterly Award for Flash Fiction)

Features “You need a therapist, not a keyboard”: Loretta Ross on calling in, The Rice Thresher
Review: ‘Tamara de Lempicka’ fashions survival at MFAH, The Rice Thresher

Profiles Elisa Gabbert, The Rice Thresher
Melissa McDonnell Luján, The Rice Thresher
saba Feleke, The Rice Thresher (Fifth Place, Associated Collegiate Press Spring Conference Best of Show Competition: Feature Reporting)
Elizabeth Hordge-Freeman, The Rice Thresher

Art HOME VIDEOS, Film Program curated by Bobbi Salvör Menuez, Dizzy TV Season 2 (2024)
Orbbit Plush Toy Design, dekopon! Magazine Issue 2 (2023)

Events Co-Moderator, HTX MADE PRESENTS ANDREW THOMAS HUANG: In Conversation, Rice University Moody Center for the Arts (2025, Upcoming)
slip[the instrumentality project]@-23LUFS, a one-time sonic fiction radio program for KTRU 96.1 FM (2025)