May Teng is an Indonesian-American writer and brand strategist based in New York.
As a brand strategist, May has five years of experience shaping global brands, defining the positioning and verbal expression for everything from California cabernets to Korean smartphones.
As an essayist, May’s fixations include fragmented narratives, portraits of place, boundaries and borders, and collective memory. Her writing has received support and fellowships from the Vermont Studio Center, the Civil Society Institute, and the Virginia Center for Creative Arts. May holds a BA in English from Georgetown University and attended the University of Iowa’s Nonfiction MFA program, where she taught creative writing and learned to use the word “lacuna” in a sentence.
As a brand strategist, May has five years of experience shaping global brands, defining the positioning and verbal expression for everything from California cabernets to Korean smartphones.
As an essayist, May’s fixations include fragmented narratives, portraits of place, boundaries and borders, and collective memory. Her writing has received support and fellowships from the Vermont Studio Center, the Civil Society Institute, and the Virginia Center for Creative Arts. May holds a BA in English from Georgetown University and attended the University of Iowa’s Nonfiction MFA program, where she taught creative writing and learned to use the word “lacuna” in a sentence.