last updated oct 2025
→→→ an emergent map of the paths I’ve meandered down in piecing together a life within poetry outside of a formalized program
with gratitude to paths tread by those who came before me, and those who read, listened to, invited me in with such generosity 🧩💛🗺 →→→
contact
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🌞🍃 in my summer and autumn of dreaming of and practicing and scheming and being humbled by childcare and K-12 curriculum 💗✨
~ ⚔️🧊 Oct 31, 2025 – Antifascist Day of the Dead reading in support of SF Courtwatch and Gaza at Tamarack
~ 🫴 Nov 16, 2025 – open mic-ing at Public Words (themed: Libidinal Labor)
~ 💌 Nov 25, 2025 – teaching “girlblogging poetics” 🕸 with Beyond Form
past
Oct 12, 2025 | San Francisco
performing Sounds Of: Changing Pace (0) with Nabibi777, Aubrey King 🎐📀
Sept 2025 | San Francisco
learning 🧠
@ SFMOMA Teacher Programs (Love Made Visible: An Art Teacher Institute on Suzanne Jackson’s use of recycled material) 💗♻️
@ Chinese Culture Center of SF (Chinatown History & Art Tour Docent Training) 🎨🥠
Aug 2025 | San Francisco
clay workshop participant & community contributor to Macrowaves’ Home Without Borders ⚔️✊🏠
June 1, 2025 | Berkeley
middle and high school writers I had the great luck of working with in March are reading at the Bay Area Book Festival in “Native Voices: Youth Writers from the 2025 Graton Writing Project” 💪
March 2025 | Print
poems published in Attached to the Living World: A New Ecopoetry Anthology 🐬🌳
Feb 15, 2025 | Oakland
performing at Sapphic Salon with Sarah Bush Dance Company at the White Horse Bar 💏🐎
Feb 14, 2025 | Oakland
reading at Tritone Poetry / Tamarack’s Weekly Friday series 💘
Jan – April 2025
studying, writing through Workshops4Gaza and Small Press Traffic 📚
Dec 6, 2024
heard the nice news of getting to the finalist pool for the Periplus Fellowship 💫🏊♀️🐟
Oct 6 – Dec 15, 2024 | Oakland
❤️🔥 co-dreaming, -teaching, -writing Asian American Poetics as a Radical Possibility, a six-session poetry workshop with Kazumi Chin+++
– Dec 15, 2024, Freedom
– Dec 1, 2024, Mothers
– Nov 11, 2024, Mitski
– Nov 3, 2024 Refusals
– Oct 20, 2024, Anxiety
– Oct 6, 2024, Names
Sept – Dec 2024 | San Francisco
studying @ City College San Francisco, African American History: Reconstruction to the Present 📜
Sept – Dec 2024 | San Francisco & Oakland
creative writing teaching, tutoring, mentoring, field trips with 826 Valencia/Chapter 510 🪁✏️
June 29 – Aug 9 2024 | San Francisco & Oakland
🌻🧑🌾 seeding Flowers & Fields
– Aug 9, 2024, Literaoke, a poetry & singing open mic 🎤
– July 13, 2024, Flock of Words, a writers’ hike 🕊
– July 6, 2024, Dream Assembly, a convening for dreaming 💭
– June 29, 2024, Architectures of Care, a poetry salon 🪢
😎🧩 ~ hot concrete poetry summer ~ 🧩😎
June 17-23, 2024 | Olympic Valley
workshopping @ Community of Writers’ Poetry Program; recipient of a Lucille Clifton Memorial Scholarship 🌲
June 10 – 14, 2024 | Denver
workshopping @ Lit Fest Advanced Weeklong Poetry Workshop 🏔
😎🧩 ~ hot concrete poetry summer ~ 🧩😎
June 5, 2024 | Online
poems published in The Poetry Project & The Seventh Wave
June 1, 2024, 3-4pm | San Francisco
reading @ Friends of the San Francisco Public Library’s Block Party Book Sale, Thee Parkside 🏍
May 30, 2024 | San Francisco
hosting Horizontal Poetry Night 🌀🐛
May 22, 2024 | San Francisco
reading @ A.P. Giannini Middle School’s first-ever Poetry Jam ❣️
April 4, 2024 | Online
finalist in F(r)iction’s fall 2023 poetry contest 🎋
March 23, 2024 | San Francisco
speaking, facilitating @ Reboot Community Day & Kernel launch party at KQED ☘️
March 20, 2024 | Print & Online
Kernel Magazine Issue 4 is released!
I selected/solicited/edited poetry, fiction, visual art ++ and wrote a note about the f/utilities of poetry and software ⚡️
March 2, 2024 | San Francisco
reading with Small Press Traffic’s Bay Area Poetics workshop at Et Al. Books 🌉
March 2, March 9, March 16, March 23, 2024 | San Francisco
typewriting @ a poetry activation for Entwined: Elder Mother, in Golden Gate Park 🌈
March – May 2024 | San Francisco & Oakland
creative writing teaching, tutoring, mentoring, field trips with 826 Valencia/Chapter 510 🪁
February 27, 2024 | San Francisco
distributed a PDF of a beloved are.na channel “🌀 the world is alive with waves and forces” through USB Club’s first San Francisco event 👾
Feb 12, 2024 | San Francisco
SF Computer Poetry / Erasure Poetry Night, co-hosted with Matthew Siu 🤖
Jan – March 2024 | San Francisco & Virtual
studying, DIY MFA-ing
– “Relational Reconstructions,” School for Poetic Computation
– “Bay Area Poetics 1960s – 2020s,” Small Press Traffic
– “Words Are My Matter: A Short Course on the Craft of Ursula K. Le Guin,” Community of Writers
June 16 – Dec. 11, 2023 | San Francisco
on view, looping @ the Asian Art Museum’s “Bernice Bing: Open Call” 🔁
Dec. 5, 2023, 6-8p PT / 9-11p ET | Virtual
speaking @ Sarah Bush Dance Project’s End-of-Year Gala
Dec. 4, 2023, 8p ET / 5p PT | Virtual
reading @ The Poetry Project: Fall 2023 Workshop Reading
Oct. 19, Nov. 2, Nov. 6, Nov. 30, 2023, 6-8p PT | San Francisco
“of form and feeling,” co-taught with Kazumi Chin 🧩
Oct. 21, 2023 | San Francisco
panel moderator, Litcrawl: Hot Takes with Kernel Magazine
Oct 15, 2023 | San Francisco
reading @ Litquake Out Loud: Full Circle with Giovanna Lomanto
Litquake / Yerba Buena Gardens Festival
Oct 2023 | Virtual
studying @ Asian American Literary Archive, “Foundations of Asian American Studies”; scholarship recipient 📚
Sept 11, 2023 | Print & Online
Kernel Magazine, Volume 3 is released ✨✨✨
Creative editor & nonfiction editor
July 15, 2023 | Berkeley
performance at Berkeley Poetry Festival 2023:
“Body Language,” with Sarah Bush Dance Project
April – May 2023 | San Francisco
studying @ Small Press Traffic, “Anti-Narrative Arcs: Experimental Fiction Workshop”
Nov 2022 | Print & Online
Sinostories is released ❤️
Contributing editor
Sept 12, 2022 | Print & Online
Kernel Magazine, Volume 2 is out ⚡️
Creative editor
Aug – Sept 2022 | San Francisco
research, video exhibited @ Gray Area (in collaboration with IAAT /ZERO1 / Claudia Larcher)
Aug 2022 | Mendocino
workshopping short fiction @ Mendocino Coast Writers Conference; recipient of an Albertina Tholakele Dube scholarship
Aug 2022 | San Francisco
Rooted & Written fiction fellow
Dec 14, 2021 | San Francisco, Turkey, & Virtual
co-curator & -host with Sabina Kariat for Living Room Light Exchange, Season 8: Alternative & Contemporary Futurisms, at Southern Exposure 🔮
Oct 23, 2021 | San Francisco
reading @ Litcrawl: In Response at Dogeared Books
Aug 12 – Sept 4, 2021 | San Francisco
installation (Southeastern Expansion) @ Southern Exposure, Antidotes to Confusion
Sept 4, 2021 | Virtual
reading @ Asian Art Museum x Kearny Street Workshop, IWL: Readings from the 2021 Anthology
June 18, 2021 | Los Angeles
writing/reading typewriter poetry with PRIDE Poets @ ONE Archives Foundation 💏
June 11-13, 2021 | Los Angeles & Virtual
writing/reading custom poetry @ Pride Poets Hotline 💏
June – Aug 2021 | San Francisco & Virtual
workshopping @ Kearny Street Workshop Interdisciplinary Writers Lab; anthology
May 6, 2021 | Virtual
speaking @ University of Oregon Art & Technology, ARTD 410/510 Art of Surveillance Lecture Series with Liz Ayala and Olivia Ross ⚔️
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