Paper Money

Paper Money is out! A huge thank you to Diane Seuss for selecting my chapbook and to Driftwood Press for publishing it. I hope you, dear visitor, enjoy these poems.
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Selected Poems
Baltimore Review – “自強號 (zì qiáng hào)”
Bellevue Literary Review – “White Peaches” (print and online)
Cincinnati Review – “Lunch Break”
Electric Literature/The Commuter – “Things I Say to My Partner” and “August Peaches”
Frontier Poetry – “Summer Love”
Gordon Square Review – “I tend to call at night”
The Malahat Review – “Nostalgia,” “My aunt is my mother’s sister” (print)
Ninth Letter – “Lunch at a tavern”
Poetry Ireland Review – “Taitung, 1997” (print)
Poetry Online – “Where for the children”
RHINO – “The day before” (print and online)
The Rumpus – “What a shame,” “”樹葬 (shù zàng),” “Lento Notes”
Southeast Review – “August, living alone” (print and online)
Terrain.org – “Tankas for Our First Fall in Mississippi”
Turbine | Kapohau – “my friend posts a photo of her weekend and i have the same memory” and “Can you love someone if you don’t know their birthday”
Variant Lit – “inheritance”
Prose
Raft – “To Linger”
Santa Fe Writers Project Quarterly – “Scallion Pancakes”
Selected Honors
2025 Willapa Bay Artist-in-Residence – Resident
2024 Adrift Chapbook Contest at Driftwood Press – Winner, selected by Diane Seuss for chapbook, Paper Money
2024 de Groot Foundation Courage to Write Grant – Grantee
2023 LitFest Denver – Emerging Writer Fellowship Runner-Up selected by Victoria Chang
2022 Gordon Square Review Editorial Mentorship – Recipient