HELLO
I’m a writer & literary translator based in the San Francisco Bay Area, CA.
My interdisciplinary projects and multimedia collaborations explore displacement, (be)longing, and queer home-making through the lens of postcolonial transnationality.
Photo by Sarah Deragon
Born a Problem
Artist book & multimedia installation, in collaboration with designer Paula Te
Exhibited at Gray Area, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts & The Fishbowl
Media coverage: New Day NW
Supported by Seattle Print Arts’ Larry Sommers Fellowship & APICC’s United States of Asian America Festival
There’s No Stonewall in Atlantis
Full-length translation book of Hendri Yulius Wijaya’s Stonewall Tak Mampir di Atlantis from Bahasa Indonesia (Circumference Books, forthcoming)
Recipient of Lunch Ticket’s Gabo Prize in Literary Translation and Multilingual Texts
Interviews: Massachusetts Review & LIT Magazine
Supported by Tripwire micro-grant
The Way Back
Hybrid prose-poetry chapbook (Foglifter Press, 2022)
Recipient of Start a Riot! Prize & Silver Medal for Collections from Northern California Publishers and Authors Book Awards
Reviews & Interviews: The Racket, Fourteen Hills, Lucky Jefferson & International Examiner
Press Play
Graphic web-comic & installation, in collaboration with illustrator Elbert Lim — also a chapbook (Sweet Lit, 2020)
Exhibited at Oakland Asian Cultural Center
Media coverage: KRON4, KQED & NBC Bay Area
Supported by ARTogether mini-grant
I Dream of Water
Cine-poem & video essay series with various collaborators
Screened at Kearny Street Workshop’s APAture Multidisciplinary Arts Festival
Published in Triquarterly & Aquifer
Supported by Oakland Neighborhood Voices & East Bay Fund for Artist grants
Work Samples
Poetry: Lambda Literary Writers Retreat & Dawn Review
Literary Translations: Words Without Borders, Asymptote, West Branch & MAYDAY