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I’m a writer & literary translator previously based in the San Francisco Bay Area and now living in Bangkok, Thailand.

My interdisciplinary projects and multimedia collaborations explore queer home-making and (be)longing through the lens of postcolonial transnationality.

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Photo by Sarah Deragon

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)

  • Forthcoming in Deep Vellum’s Best Literary Translations 2027 anthology, guest-edited by Emily Wilson

  • Recipient of Lunch Ticket’s Gabo Prize in Literary Translation and Multilingual Texts

  • Interviews: Massachusetts Review & LIT Magazine

  • Supported by Tripwire micro-grant

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

The Way Back

Hybrid prose-poetry chapbook (Foglifter Press, 2022)

Press Play

Graphic webcomic & installation, in collaboration with illustrator Elbert Lim — also a chapbook (Sweet Lit, 2020)

  • Exhibited at Oakland Asian Cultural Center

  • Recipient of Mind HK Media Award and nominee of Webby & Shorty Social Good Awards

  • 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

  • Excerpts published in Triquarterly & Aquifer

  • Supported by Oakland Neighborhood Voices & East Bay Fund for Artist grants

Work Samples