πŸ‘‹πŸ½ My name is Pathikrit. Also Manik, Tukai, Patu, Po β€” depends who you ask.

✍🏽 I’m a fiction writer at the New Writers Project in Austin, TX. My fearless agent is Laura Gross.

🧬 Previously, I designed research software for biologists, at Benchling.

πŸ€ΈπŸ½β€ Mastery is fun, dabbling is funner. I dabble often. Scroll down for proof.

πŸ”οΈ I'm an amateur mountaineer.

[Figure 2] On top of Mount Shasta (14,180β€²). USA, 2016.

🦏 I love wild places and the creatures that live there.

[Figure 3] California condor and raven. Pinnacles National Park, USA, 2017.

[Figure 4] African elephant. Tarangire National Park, Tanzania, 2015.

[Figure 5] Wildebeest migration from a plane. Serengeti National Park, Tanzania, 2015.

[Figure 6] Juvenile Burchell's zebra. Kruger National Park, South Africa, 2012.

πŸ—―οΈ I make bold claims.

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[Figure 7] Untitled, 2019.

πŸ““ I collect spectacular sentences.

I stopped smugly repeating 'Everything that can be thought at all can be thought clearly' and wondered anew, can everything be thought.

β€”Maggie Nelson, The Argonauts

Cannery Row in Monterey in California is a poem, a stink, a grating noise, a quality of light, a tone, a habit, a nostalgia, a dream.

β€”John Steinbeck, Cannery Row

Journeys end in lovers’ meeting.

β€”William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?

β€”Mary Oliver, The Summer Day

🎭 I'm a comic and a critic.

[Figure 8] Civilization and its Discontents/Shitty Math, 2018.

πŸ”¬ In a previous life, I told stories about science.

[Figure 9] The Life and Times of the Lancet Liver Fluke, 2012.

[Figure 10] The Central Limit Theorem, 2013.

[Figure 11] Suddenly Visible, 2014.


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This handmade, artisanal website is hosted on Github. My code is your code.

These pages are typeset in Inter, Crimson, and Share Tech Mono.

For a surrealist account of this site's birth, read Breathing Fire and Other Skills.