Writer, Poet, Editor, Translator
“…intimacy and surprise… lace these poems like a shoe, tying our attention tight and fast.”
~ Tobias Wray, judge of the 2021 Felix McKean Memorial Award for Poetry
“The language grabs you by the shoulders and sits the reader down to listen.”
~Sy Hoahwah, judge of the 2020 Lily Peter Fellowship in Poetry
“…I gasped aloud several times reading these–the slicing-edge of the poems cut me open and made me want to be filled with a better love.”
~ Sarah Vap, judge of the 2020 Carolyn F. Walton Cole Fellowship in Poetry
Headshots by Trina Pham
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