Hot Girls Have Stomach Issues

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Poetry • 126 pages
Published Apr 2026

Poems by Kimberley Chia Qin

“I have been waiting for a voice like this—brazen and bare, insisting on her own arrival… A debut collection that talks back to our foremothers, and makes them all proud.”—Amanda Chong

Why do we love in the way that we do? This debut collection by Kimberley Chia Qin takes up the question through the lens of girls coming into their womanhood, and the messy inheritances that shape them. At once a reckoning and a toast, these poems move through family, grief, illness, and a host of other growing pains—tracing how they bind us, how they break us, and how they bequeath us a license to love.

Hot Girls Have Stomach Issues is a remedy against that age-old problem: not quite being a girl, not yet calling oneself a woman. Its poems reach across time and space to gather at a dining table laden with ginseng, kueh, and cut fruit, offering a feast of loss, stolen intimacies and other tender cuts of the human condition—first as a way to live with themselves, and then, finally, as a way to thrive. They ask us all to sit, and eat.

📌 Hot Girls Have Stomach Issues by Kimberley Chia Qin is also available as an e-book at Kobo, Google Play and other retailers: Amazon.UK, Amazon.US, Apple Books
📌 Enter discount code IDESERVEIT for orders over $50 to get free local shipping.

Poetry • 126 pages
Published Apr 2026

Poems by Kimberley Chia Qin

“I have been waiting for a voice like this—brazen and bare, insisting on her own arrival… A debut collection that talks back to our foremothers, and makes them all proud.”—Amanda Chong

Why do we love in the way that we do? This debut collection by Kimberley Chia Qin takes up the question through the lens of girls coming into their womanhood, and the messy inheritances that shape them. At once a reckoning and a toast, these poems move through family, grief, illness, and a host of other growing pains—tracing how they bind us, how they break us, and how they bequeath us a license to love.

Hot Girls Have Stomach Issues is a remedy against that age-old problem: not quite being a girl, not yet calling oneself a woman. Its poems reach across time and space to gather at a dining table laden with ginseng, kueh, and cut fruit, offering a feast of loss, stolen intimacies and other tender cuts of the human condition—first as a way to live with themselves, and then, finally, as a way to thrive. They ask us all to sit, and eat.

📌 Hot Girls Have Stomach Issues by Kimberley Chia Qin is also available as an e-book at Kobo, Google Play and other retailers: Amazon.UK, Amazon.US, Apple Books
📌 Enter discount code IDESERVEIT for orders over $50 to get free local shipping.

ISBN 978-981-94-5012-1 (paperback, 1st ed.)
ISBN 978-981-94-5013-8 (ebook, 1st ed.)

First edition, 2026
First published in 2026 by AFTERIMAGE
the publishing arm of Sing Lit Station Ltd
22 Dickson Road, #02-01, Singapore 209506, Singapore

(b.1999, she/her) is a writer and movement-maker who creates as an act of tenderness. Her poetry has been published in ANMLY, Kopi Break Poetry and Sine Theta Magazine, among others, and has been nominated for the Best Small Fictions and Best of the Net anthologies.
As a performance poet, she is interested in stretching the borders of spoken word. She has been featured at venues in Singapore and France, and debuted her multidisciplinary spoken word and dance set at triple bill Out and Up in 2025.
Hot Girls Have Stomach Issues is her debut collection of poetry.

Hot Girls Have Stomach Issues

Kimberley Chia Qin

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(est. Oct 2024) is a Singapore-based publisher of local literature focussed on poetry. As the publishing arm of the literary non-profit Sing Lit Station, the press is committed to supporting impactful and efflorescent work that extends and renders anew the country’s rich literary lineage.