Winner, Singapore Literature Prize 2024 (English Fiction)Judges' Citation, Singapore Literature Prize 2024
"A clear-sighted and ruthlessly principled observer, Ram shows with remorseless precision the damage women inflict on each other and on the men in their families, yet the book is not patronisingly didactic. She trusts her readers to respond appropriately to stories that depict with powerful simplicity the failure to treat the marginalised with respect or humanity. Her writing is skilful, assured, comedic at times, and profoundly moving."The Straits Times
"Quite simply, this latecomer is one of the best debut books of Singapore fiction in 2023."Balli Kaur Jaswal
"A thoroughly enjoyable and meaningful work of fiction about family, community and the reverberations of migration and displacement."Jee Leong Koh
"Nine Yard Sarees is an uncommonly rich and precise debut, closely observed, magically empathetic and formally ambitious."

SHORT STORIES"You Have (1) New Message" A Christmas Story, The Straits Times (2024)“Good Morning, God” Chope: All About Singapore Hawker Culture, Singapore: Landmark Books (2022)“The Panasonic” (reprint) Best New Singaporean Short Stories: Volume Five, Singapore: Epigram Books (2021)“The Cassette” A Tapestry of Colours 2: Stories from Asia, Singapore: Marshall Cavendish (2021)“Graveyard” No Contact Issue 15 (Dec 2020)“Rotten Perfection” The Willowherb Review Issue 3: Habitation (Aug 2020)“The Gods Aren’t Coming” The Tiger Moth Review Issue 4 (May 2020)“The Panasonic” Food Republic: A Singapore Literary Banquet, Singapore: Landmark Books (2020)

ESSAYS AND REVIEWS"To Learn to Write,” The Serangoon Times Issue 100 (2024), translated by Sivanantham Neelakandan“Huā by Any Other Name” What We Inherit: Growing Up Indian (2022)“The Spell of the Forest” Making Kin: Ecofeminist Essays from Singapore (2021)“Dancing Between Saris and Sorrows” Singapore Unbound: SP Blog (9 Nov 2020)“Tiny Sparrows in a Dark Forest: The Voices of Assam” Singapore Unbound: SP Blog (20 Apr 2020)“Losing the Game of Racism” Singapore Unbound: SP Blog (13 Jan 2020)“The Ghosts that Haunt Us” Singapore Unbound: SP Blog (5 Aug 2019)“Into the Heart of Not Whiteness” Singapore Unbound: SP Blog (10 Jun 2019)“Swiping Right on Arranged Marriage” Anomaly on Medium (19 Dec 2018)"

PANELSMata Hati: Spotlighting the Singapore Literature Prize Winners, Singapore Writers Festival, 10 Nov 2024Same, Same but Different: SEA Tales, Singapore Writers Festival, 9 Nov 2024How to Tell a Million Stories before Grandma Dies, Singapore Writers festival, 8 Nov 2024The Winding Path to Publication: A Chaotic Breakdown, with Jon Gresham and Max Pasakorn, 29 Sept 2024In Their Domain: Carving a Niche through Online Literary Journals, National Library Board, SG Alcove, 15 June 2024Unexpected Pairings #3: K-Pop Prac Crit, Singapore Writers Festival, 18 Nov 2023Romance and Bad Boys, Singapore Writers Festival, 12 Nov 2022How You Like That: Unpacking K-Pop, Singapore Writers Festival, 6 Nov 2021The Literature of Social Pressure, Singapore Writers Festival, 1 Nov 2020

MODERATIONFireside Chat: Style and Story, The Power of Self-Expression, Singapore Book Council x Swapaholic, 27 Nov 2024The Comeback of Literary Classics: K-Pop Edition, National Library Board, 17 July 2024In A Tiny Room with Viet Thanh Nguyen, Singapore Writers Festival, 19 Nov 2023Finding Meaning in a Changing World, Read!Fest, 13 July 2023An Evening with Claire Keegan, Asia Creative Writing Programme at NTU (ACWP), 14 May 2023In the Next Issue, Singapore Writers Festival, 17 November 2022Breaking the Colonial Gaze, Singapore Writers Festival, 5 November 2022NTU-NAC Writer-in-Residence Reading, Amanda Lee Koe 2018NTU-NAC Writer-in-Residence Reading, Kirsten Chen 2017

PERFORMANCESLighted Bodies: Art Presentations and Readings, Prasanthi Ram x flautist Raghavendran Rajasekaran, Light to Night Festival 2025Home/land: A Dramatic Reading of Nine Yard Sarees, Esplanade Foreword 2024