May Teng is an Indonesian-American writer and brand strategist based in New York.
As a brand strategist, May has over five years of experience defining global brands and they way they express themselves, spanning 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 is featured in AGNI, Literary Hub, and CRAFT, where she was a winner of the 2025 Essay Award, and supported by the Vermont Studio Center, the Civil Society Institute, Periplus, and the Virginia Center for Creative Arts.
As a brand strategist, May has over five years of experience defining global brands and they way they express themselves, spanning 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 is featured in AGNI, Literary Hub, and CRAFT, where she was a winner of the 2025 Essay Award, and supported by the Vermont Studio Center, the Civil Society Institute, Periplus, and the Virginia Center for Creative Arts.