[2] He studied film and English literature at Victoria University of Wellington, where he also completed a Master of Arts degree in creative writing from the International Institute of Modern Letters.

[1] Tse's first appearance in a major publication was the joint collection AUP New Poets 4 (with Harry Jones and Erin Scudder), published by Auckland University Press in 2011).

[6][7] In 2014, Auckland University Press published Tse's first full-length collection, How to be Dead in a Year of Snakes.

[8] The collection is a book-length sequence that revisits the 1905 murder of Joe Kum Yung who was shot and killed by Lionel Terry.

[5][12][13] In November 2021, Auckland University Press published Out Here: An Anthology of Takatapui and LGBTQIA+ writers from Aotearoa, edited by Tse and poet Emma Barnes.

[2] In February 2024, the National Library extended the position of New Zealand Poet Laureate from a two-year tenure to a three-year term.