PROFILE
I am a young, emerging Chinese-Canadian writer living in Vancouver B.C. I write creative nonfiction and poetry.
EDUCATION
Magee Secondary, Vancouver BC — High School Diploma, 2013-2018
Simon Fraser University, Vancouver BC — English, Bachelor of Arts, 2018-present
EXPERIENCE
- Co-ordinator, Books on the Radio — July 2018-Present
- Co-ordinator, Dead Poets Reading Series— September 2018-present
- Youth Advocate and Social Media Coordinator, Federation of BC Writers — August 2018 - present
- Volunteer, Inspirehealth; Vancouver BC — September 2016-August 2018
Room Magazine~
- Intern, Room Magazine — October 2018-March 2019
- Issue 43.4 Assistant Editor, Room Magazine — March 2019
- Volunteer, Growing Room: A Feminist Literary Festival — March 2018
- Youth Programming Consultant/Festival Intern/Programming Committee, Growing Room: A Feminist Literary Festival — September 2018-March 2019
Simon Fraser University~
- Student Blogger, SFU Department of English — August 2018 - present
- Board Committee/Academic Lead, World Literature Undergraduate Conference — March 2019
- Columnist, The Peak — May 2019 - present
CONFERENCE PAPERS
- "Gateway to Paradise: The Usage of Magical Doors in Mohsin Hamid’s Exit West," World Literature Undergraduate Conference — April 2019
- "The Vancouver Women's Bookstore Reunion: Legacy of Canada's First Feminist Bookstore Through Multimedia Archives," SpokenWeb Symposium: "Resonant Practices in Communities of Sound"— May 2019
- "Eleven Stops Until I'm Half Way Home," SFU English Graduate Conference: "Taking Up Space"— June 2019
BOOKS
Chapbook ~
- On Forgetting A Language, Baseline Press — October 2019
AWARDS
- “Shortcomings of a Juvenile”, The New Quarterly — Shortlist, 2017 Edna Staebler Essay Contest
- "Risk of Rain", The New Quarterly — Shortlist, 2018 Edna Staebler Essay Contest
- "Lunar Feast", The Temz Review — 2018 Pushcart Prize Nomination
WORKSHOPS
- Facilitator, Youth Poetry Workshop with Gibson Public Library — April 2019
- Facilitator, Teens Poetry Workshop with Burnaby Public Library — July 2019
PUBLICATIONS
Creative Non-fiction ~
- “Shortcomings of a Juvenile” — The New Quarterly, March 2018
- "A Certain Light" — Learn Writing Essentials: Life in Canlit, July 2018
- "When One Dream Fails"— SFU English Blog, September 2018
- "Eleven Stops Until I'm Half Way Home" — Carte Blanche October 2018
- "Closer Still: On Reading What I Could Not Understand" — Invisible Blog, November 2018
- "SFU: Student Tips for Surviving Life on Campus" — Macleans, forthcoming April 2019
- "Eleven Stops Until I'm Half Way Home" — FOLD Program, May 2019
- "Risk of Rain" — The New Quarterly, forthcoming 2019
Poetry~
- “Burned Out” — Looseleaf, May 2018
- "Grace" & "Redemption"— Train Journal, October 2018
- "Late" — Room, September 2018
- "Lunar Feast" & "On Forgetting a Language"— The/tEmz/Review, October 2018
- "It's Been Weeks of Forest Fires" — Plenitude Magazine, December 2018
- "Expecting" — Canthius, February 2019
- "Sandcastle Bucket" & "Listen"& "Shoreline" — Contemporary Verse 2, Forthcoming
- "Lunar Feast" — Wordworks, April 2019
- "Spawning Grounds" — GEEZ Magazine, April 2019
- "Springtime Ghazal" —Chaudiere Books: National Poetry Month, April 2019
- "Ghazal for the New Year" — The Puritan, June 2019
Reviews~
- Ormsby Review: "Another Mountain to Climb", by Danny Peart — August 2018
PODCASTS
- Poet Interview, Wax Poetic with Co-op Radio — August 2018
- "A Certain Light", Books on the Radio — September 2018
- Bookish Radio — Forthcoming 2019
INTERVIEWS
- "What You Love" : An Interview with Susan Scott, The New Quarterly — August 2018
- Interview with Train Journal — January 2018
"In Conversation with Young Writers" w/ Prism International 2019~
- Part 1) PUBLISHING — Interview with Natalie Lim, Chimedum Ohaegbu, Stephanie Chang, Mikayla Ruppe
- Part 2) SPOKEN WORD — Interview with LJ Weisberg, Susan Yanez, Emma Field, Salena Weiner
Room Magazine ~
- Before I was a Critic I was a Human Being: Interview with Amy Fung
- Mistakes to Run With: Interview with Yasuko Thanh
"Excited About Everything" w/ Growing Room Literary Festival 2019 ~
- Interview with Alex Leslie
- Interview with David Ly
- Interview with Onjana Yawnghwe
- Interview with LJ Weisberg
- Interview with Alicia Elliot
- Interview with Susan Scott
- Interview with Eden Robinson
- Interview with Katherena Vermette
- Interview with Jen Sookfong Lee
- Interview with Canisia Lubrin
- Interview with Whitney French
- Interview with Triny Finlay
- Interview with Lucas Crawford
- Interview with Arielle Twist
- Interview with Serena Bhandar
- Interview with Emily Riddle
- Interview with jaye simpson, Jessica Johns, Patricia Massy
EVENTS AND READINGS
- Featured Reader, TWS Reading Series — December, 2017
- Featured Reader, Balderdash Reading Series — March, 2018
- Featured Reader, Looseleaf Volume 5 Launch — May, 2018
- Featured Reader, TWS Reading Series — June, 2018
- Featured Reader, Poetry in the Park — August 2018
- Featured Reader, Dominion Reading Series — August, 2018
- Featured Reader, Poetic Justice — August, 2018
- Featured Reader, Dead Poets Reading — September, 2018
- Featured Reader, AfterWord — September, 2018
- Featured Reader, Real Vancouver Writers' Series — October, 2018
- Featured Reader, Emerging Writers Reading Series — January 2019
- Featured Reader, Millennial Line — January 2019
- Featured Reader, Strangers on a Train — January 2019
- Featured Reader, Of(f) the Mountain — February 2019
- Featured Reader, Spoken Ink — February 2019
- Featured Reader, Surrey Muse — February 2019
- Host, Growing Room: Room Magazine's Youth Reading — March 2019
- Featured Reader, LitFest New West — April 2019
- Featured Reader, Gibson Public Library — April 2019
- Guest Speaker, New Westminster Secondary: Between the Lines Literary Festival — April 2019
- Featured Reader, Alt Congress Reading — June 2019