Photo by Sarah Deragon
HELLO
I’m a writer & literary translator based in the San Francisco Bay Area, CA.
My interdisciplinary projects explore displacement, (be)longing, and queer home-making through the lens of postcolonial transnationality.
Born a Problem
Artist book & multimedia installation, in collaboration with designer Paula Te (Larry Sommers Fellowship, Seattle Print Arts)
Exhibited at Gray Area, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts & The Fishbowl
Media coverage: New Day NW
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
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
I Dream of Water
Video series with various collaborators
Exhibited at Kearny Street Workshop’s APAture Multi Disciplinary Arts Festival
Supported by Oakland Neighbourhood Voices Grant & East Bay Fund for Artist
Published in Triquarterly & Aquifer
Work Samples
Poetry: Lambda Literary Writers Retreat & Dawn Review
Literary Translations: Words Without Borders, Asymptote, West Branch & MAYDAY