Ph.D., English with a Concentration in Creative Writing, 2015, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee
Areas of Study: Contemporary Diasporic Literatures; Speculative Poetries; Queer and
Transgender Literature; Graduate Certificate in Women’s Studies

M.F.A., Creative Writing and Writing for the Performing Arts, 2010, University of
California, Riverside

B.A., International Relations and English, 1999, Tufts University

• BIS 249 Intro to Labor Studies
• BISIA 310 Creative Writing: Poetry
• BISIA 311 Creative Writing: Prose
• BISIA 401 Literary & Arts Journal
• BISIA 410 Advanced Creative Writing Workshop
• BCWRIT 510 Poetics Seminar: Cultural Change and Writing

I approach my classes as experimental laboratories where students are invited to explore various approaches and lineages to actively construct their own knowledges, with particular commitment to historically underrepresented voices and stories. I believe in pedagogy which enables students to test out their critical and creative thinking through concrete engagement with their peers and with those active in the field and wider community, helping them acquire important skills which will last beyond the space of our classroom.

I am a cross-genre writer with a background in community organizing, specifically in Asian American communities in coalition with other communities of color and LGBTQIA* communities. My work participates in a lineage of documentary and speculative poetics, which uses documents and other historical evidence as material from which to imagine under-examined lives and investigate how various communities interact and inhabit space. Using strategies of juxtaposition and multi-voice collage, I utilize historical artifacts including photographs, newspaper articles, maps, city directory listings, immigration, birth and death records and as well as scholarly research and archaeological reports to look at shared community memories and erasures. I have also incorporated an interest in environmental witness, exploring individual and collective responses to disaster. I have been particularly interested in using speculation to develop collective imagination towards a more equitable future. I am currently working on Breathing in a Time of Disaster, an improvised choral performance, installation and speculative writing project focusing on the unit of breath in relation to ecological change and community wisdom.

Selected Publications: Books

• Shiny City. Portland: Airlie Press, 2025.
• recombinant. Berkeley: Kelsey Street Press, 2017.
• The Heart’s Traffic: a novel in poems. Los Angeles: Arktoi Books/Red Hen Press, 2009.

Selected Publications: Chapbooks

•  Breathing Space. Craft Chaps: Sundress Publications, 2025.
•  Kundiman for Kin :: Information Retrieval for Monsters. Brooklyn: Portable Press @ Yo-Yo Labs, 2020.
•  to make black paper sing. Berkeley: speCt! Books, 2019.

Selected Publications: Works in Anthologies

•  “for the fir tree hanging by thin desire,” The Nature of Our Times: Poems on America’s Lands, Waters, Wildlife, and Other Natural Wonders. Luisa A. Igloria, Aileen Cassinetto, and David Hassler, Eds. Paloma Press, 2025.
•  “Spell for the Living,” “Transfusion,” and “Dear Pigeon Guillemot,” Washington State Queer Poetry Anthology. Arianne True, Ed. 2025.
•  “For Peddidle,” Creature Needs: Writers Respond to the Science of Animal Conservation. Christopher Kondrich, Susan Tacent, and Lucy Spelman, Eds. University of Minnesota Press, 2025.
•  “Another Spell for Hole,” We the Gathered Heat: Asian American and Pacific Islander Poetry, Performance, and Spoken Word. Franny Choi, Bao Phi, No’u Revilla, and Terisa Siagotonu, Eds. Haymarket Books, 2024.
•  “Dear O,” and “Contrary,” Transmasculine Poetics: Filling the Gap in Literature and the Silences Around Us. Remi Recchia, Ed. Sundress Publications, 2024.
•  “for the fir tree hanging by thin desire,” Transformation: A Women Who Submit Anthology. Ryane Nicole Granados and Noriko Nakada, Eds. Jamii Publishing. 2023.
•  “Spell for Safety,” Poetry as Spellcasting: Poems, Essays, and Prompts for Manifesting Liberation and Reclaiming Power. Tamiko Beyer, Destiny Hemphill, and Lisbeth White, Eds. North Atlantic Books, 2023.
•  “Dear O,” Queer Nature: An Ecoqueer Poetry Anthology. Michael Walsh, Ed. Autumn House Press, 2022.
•  “Texas,” The Beautiful. Dana Teen Lomax, Ed. Gualala Arts, 2022.
•  “inspector of journals makes introductions: Fan & Basket plot escape from Peabody Essex Museum.” Q&A – Voices from Queer Asian North America. Martin F. Manalansan IV, Alice Y. Hom, and Kale Bantigue Fajardo, Eds. Temple University Press, 2021.
•  “Flood Fathers” and “Guest/Stalker,” NOMBONO: An Anthology of Speculative Poetry by BIPOC Creators. Akua Lezli Hope, Ed. Sundress Publications, 2020.
•  “South in Hundreds (one hundred.),” “South in Hundreds (two hundred.),” “South in Hundreds (three hundred.),” “South in Hundreds (four hundred.),” “South in Hundreds (five hundred.),” and “Seller.” TWANG: a collection of art & writing from transgender, nonbinary & gender non-conforming folks in the south & midwest. Brody Parrish Craig, Ed, 2020.
•  “Behind the Ballroom,” “Household Mutations,” “Returning to a Posted Notice Taped to the Door,” “Trying to Feel Human/Tomorrow,” and “Self-Portrait, house with no one Present.” We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics. Andrea Abi-Karam and Kay Gabriel, Eds. Nightboat, 2020.
•  “How do you begin (another poetics),” Of Color: Poets’ Way of Making. The Operating System, 2019.
•  “Milwaukee’s Pacific Heritage,” The Milwaukee Anthology. Cleveland, OH: Belt Publishing, 2019.
•  “Arrestable,” Feminisms in Motion: A Decade of Intersectional Feminist Media. Oakland, CA: AK Press, 2018.
•  “[as a space to occupy] crossing the source,” “hunting ancestors,” “a lit ghost,” and “various various.” Reading Queer: Poetry in a Time of Chaos. Tallahassee, FL: Anhinga Press, 2018.
•  “Gender Identity and the Creative Writing Classroom.” Creative Writing Innovations. New York: Bloomsbury, 2017.
•  “Saying My Name with Happiness.” How Dare We! Write: A Multicultural Creative Writing Discourse. Ann Arbor, MI: Modern History Press.
•  “Manifesto of Shame,” Resisting Arrest. Durham, NC: Jacar Press, 2016.

Selected Publications: Works in Journals

•  “Another Season of Friendship,” Barahm Press, 2024.
•  “if you came to ask after me,” The Offing, 2024.
•  “Growth & Fester,” Amerasia, 2024.
•  “I’m Underside of Breath” and “Breathing in a Time of Suspicion,” Water Folio, Prairie Schooner, 2023.
•  “Breath for Metal,” Poem-A-Day. Academy of American Poets, 2023.
• “Letter for Pepper,” “Shifting Forms, Three Studies,” and “Contrary,” All-Poetry Issue: the Texas Review, 2023.
•  “Jostle. Fracture. Access.” Bellingham Review, 2023.
•  “Queer Poetry: a Zuihitsu;” “Love Letter to Dear Zuihitsu” The Margins, Asian American Writers’ Workshop, 2022.
•  “inside me, more family.” Concision Poetry Journal, 2022.
•  “Inside Me, Another Family,” Poem-A-Day, Academy of American Poets.
•  “Archive Bereft of Words,” Interim: A Journal of Poetry and Poetics, 2021.
•  “Inside me, another family,” and “Inside me, I write / a swarm of ants,” Kweli, 2021.
•  “Gatha for Forest Walk / When No Father Arrives,”  “Desert / Nine Days,” and “Park.” The Rupture, 2021.
•  “Dumpling-Making Kin.” South Seattle Emerald.
•  “Still Green,” “Pilgrimage,” “Flood Fathers,” “Overnight Holiday,” and “Emperor.” Blue Cactus Press.
•  “Perfect Orange,” POETRY, 2019.
•  “Spell for Safe passage,” POETRY, 2019.
•  “after so many days fled from scattering mold,” “Tuning Fork Conversation,” Transtastic Tomorrows folio, Anomaly, 2019.
•  “Spell for a Hole,” POETRY, 2019.
•  “Breath for Guan Yin,” Spiral, 2019.
•  “origins,” “yêu em dài lâu (me love you long time): draft”; “me long you love time: revision,” underbelly, 2019.
•  “Sonata,” MARY: a Journal of New Writing, 2019.
•  “(Hiding) Names,” In Praise of Polyphony folio, Broadsided Press, 2018.
•  “Infinity Plus One,” “But There Are Limits,” “To Even Conceive Infinity, There Are Limits (process notes), Southeast Review, 2018.
•  “Another Spell for Hole,” Unmargin, 2018.
•  “Dear O,” “Lepus,” Rumpus, 2018.
•  “With (prep.),” Best of Iron Horse Literary Review Poetry, 2018.
•  “Day 15: Egg Song,” “Day 16: No Visitors Allowed,”
•  “Day 17: Moneymaker Goat,” “Day 18: Melted Fans for Fees,” “Day 19: Image for Exposition,” Big Echo SF, 2018.
•  “Spell for Safety,” Origins Journal, 2018.
•  “Relatives,” “Trying to Feel Human Again,” Track//Four, 2018.
•  “Self-Portrait, Belong,” “Self-Portrait, Opposite Reflection,” “Self-Portrait, Machine,” Tayo, 2018.

Grants, Awards & Honors: Creative Work

• 2026 Residency, Carolyn Moore, Portland Community College, Portland, OR
• Residency, Wassaic Project, Wassaic, NY
• Residency, Mineral Arts & Residencies, Mineral, WA
• Residency, A Studio in the Woods, New Orleans, LA
• Residency, In Cahoots Residency, Petaluma, CA
• Residency, Storyknife, Homer, AK
• 2025 Residency, Hawthornden Brooklyn, Brooklyn, NY
• Eulalie and Carlo Scandiuzzi Writers’ Room Residency, Seattle Public Library,
  Seattle, WA
• Residency, Wedding Cake House, Providence, RI
• 2024-2025 Fellow, Academy of American Poets Laureate
• 2024 Residency, Shoreline Art Cottage Residency, Shoreline, WA
• Residency, Moulin à Nef Residency, Auvillar, France
• Fellowship, Sacred Art, Grünewald Guild, Leavenworth, WA
• Cohort Member, BIPOC Leadership Circle, artEquity
• 2023 Residency, Sequina Space, Inscape Arts and Cultural Center, Seattle, WA
• Grantee, Educational Retreat, Fernland Studios, Eugene, OR
• Fellow, Poets and Scholars Summer Writing Retreat, Rutgers Institute for the Study of
  Global Racial Justice, NJ
• Awardee, Creature Conserve Continuing Mentorship Scholarship, Creature Conserve
• Fellow, Rad(ical) Poetry Consortium, DreamYard, Bronx, NY
• Writing the Land Commissioned Poet, Friends of the Columbia Gorge, Mt. Ulka,
  Oregon
• Writing the Land Commissioned Poet, The Nature Conservancy, Moses Coulee, WA
• Residency, PLAYA, Summer Lake, OR
• Residency, Marble House Project, Dorset, VT
• Residency, Vashon Artist Residency, Vashon Island, WA
• Residency, Whiteley Center, Friday Harbor Labs, WA
• 2022-2023 Fellow, Intercultural Leadership Institute (collaborative program of Alternate ROOTS,
  First Peoples Fund, the National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures, PA’I Foundation and the Mississippi Center for Cultural Production)
• 2022 Grantee, Art Projects: Individuals, 4Culture, Seattle, WA
• Awardee, Judith Markowitz Award for Exceptional New LGBTQ Writers, Lambda
  Literary
• Fellow, Artist in Residence, Fernland Studios, Eugene, OR
• Dr. Kristi Larkin Havens Memorial Residency Fellowship for Service to the
  Community, The Sundress Academy for the Arts (SAFTA), Knoxville, TN
• Residency, Willapa Bay Artist Residence Program, Oysterville, WA
• Writing the Land Commissioned Poet, Great Peninsula Conservancy, Misery Point
  preserve, WA
• Commissioned Writer, Reimagine Seattle Storytelling Project, Seattle Department of
  Neighborhoods, Seattle, WA
• 2021-2022 New Media Gallery Residency, Jack Straw Cultural Center, Seattle, WA
• 2021 Residency, Wildacres Residency, Little Switzerland, NC
• 2020 Writing Fellow, Jack Straw Cultural Center, Seattle, WA
• 2019 Finalist, the Leslie Scalapino Award, New York, NY
• 2018 Grantee, Support for Artists and Creative Individuals, Houston Arts Alliance, Houston,
  TX
• Winner, Lambda Literary Award for recombinant
• Grantee, Alternate Roots Artistic Assistance Professional Development
• Grantee for Failure to Con/Form performance series, with Cassie Mira, JD Pluecker
  and Addie Tsai, Round Ten, The Idea Fund, Houston, TX
• Fellow, Artist INC Houston, Houston, TX
• Fellow, Storyknife Writers Retreat, Homer, AL2016 Fellow, Poetry Incubator, Poetry Foundation, Chicago, IL
• Raveel Grant, Dickinson House, Olsene, Belgium
• 2015 Junior Fellow, Image Text Workshop and Symposium, Ithaca, NY
• 2015 Writer Full Stipend Award, Can Serrat Art Residency, El Bruc, Spain

Academic Awards and Grants

• 2024-2025 Co-Investigator, “Supporting Trans Students Symposium,” with Neil Simpkins, University of Washington Diversity & Inclusion Seed Grant, Vice President of Minority Affairs & Diversity and University Diversity Officer, University of Washington,
• Fellow, Office of Diversity and Equity, University of Washington, Bothell, WA
• 2023-2025 Cohort, Environmental Career Preparedness (EnCAP), Environmental Education and
  Research Center, St. Edward State Park, WA
• 2023-2024 Co-Investigator, “ASAP/14: Arts of Fugitivity,” with Amaranth Borsuk and Jasmine
  Mahmoud, Collaborative Projects, Simpson Center for the Humanities, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
• Co-Investigator, “Minoritarian Performance Studies,” with Jasmine Mahmoud, Whitney Lynn and Daniela Rosner, Collaborative Projects, Simpson Center for the Humanities, University of Washington, Seattle, WA.
• 2022-2024 Fellow, Evidence-Based Teaching Fellowship, The Center for Learning and Teaching,
  University of Washington, Seattle, WA
• 2022-2023 Digital Scholarship Faculty Fellow, University of Washington Bothell Library, University of Washington, Bothell, WA
• Principal Investigator, “Breathing in a Time of Disaster – Emergent Broadcast System,” UW Bothell Scholarship, Research, and Creative Practice (SRCP), University of Washington, Bothell, WA
• Principal Investigator, “Imagining Trans Futures,” with Neil Simpkins, Crossdisciplinary Research Cluster, Simpson Center for the Humanities, University of Washington, Seattle, WA.
• Principal Investigator with Dan Berger, “Labor in Times of Crises,” with S Charusheela, Kari Lerum and Maryam S. Griffin, University of Washington Bothell Labor Colloquium, Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
• 2021-2022 Principal Investigator, “BIPOC Story Circle Project,” Connected Learning Excellence
  Award, University of Washington Bothell, Bothell, WA
• Principal Investigator, “Imagining Trans Futures,” with Neil Simpkins, Crossdisciplinary Research Cluster, Simpson Center for the Humanities, University of Washington, Seattle, WA.
• Principal Investigator with Dan Berger, “Labor in Times of Crises,” with S Charusheela, and Kari Lerum, University of Washington Bothell Labor Colloquium, Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
• Co-Investigator, “Inclusive Arts Pedagogy,” with Amaranth Borsuk (PI), Anida Yoeu Ali, Naomi Macalalad Bragin, Jeanne Heuving and Ted Hiebert, Teaching and Research Interest Group, I-DISCO Granting Committee, University of Washington Bothell, Bothell, WA
• Co-Investigator, “Critical Acts: Socially Engaged Performance,” and “Alive! Festival” with Anida Yoeu Ali (PI), Naomi Macalalad Bragin (PI), Masahiro Sugano, and Georgia Roberts, Teaching and Research Interest Group, I-DISCO Granting Committee, University of Washington Bothell, Bothell, WA
• 2021 Participant, “Abandonment & Arrival: Readings in Asian American Literature,” with
  Shawn Wong (Group Leader), Douglas Ishii, Vince Schleitwiler and Chistopher Waldo, Simpson Center for the Humanities, University of Washington, Seattle, WA.
• 2020-2021 Principal Investigator, “Imagining Trans Futures,” with Neil Simpkins,
  Crossdisciplinary Research Cluster, Simpson Center for the Humanities, University of Washington, Seattle, WA.
• Principal Investigator, “Labor in Times of Crises,” with Dan Berger, S Charusheela,
  Joe Ferrare and Kari Lerum, University of Washington Bothell Labor Colloquium, Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
• Principal Investigator, Resilience and Compassion Seed Grant, University of Washington Resilience Lab and Campus Sustainability Fund, Seattle, WA
• Co-Investigator, “Graduate Student Experiences in IAS,” with Shauna Carlisle (PI) and S Charusheela, University of Washington Diversity & Inclusion Seed Grant, Vice President of Minority Affairs & Diversity and University Diversity Officer, University of Washington, Seattle, WA