2025 Submissions
The Space Between Heritage
This is a poem and homage to my Asian American heritage — how I straddle the line between my home in California and my extended family, my heritage, in China.
Your Boxes
I started writing this piece in English class last year, and I only got as far as a first draft.
Varieties of Grief
A collection of three poems about different kinds of grief--familial, political, and historical--and how they’ve been handled, by myself for most but in general for one.
Where I’m From
This poem embraces my cultural heritage, my parents’ journey, and where I now call home.
The Good King
This artwork was created with the idea of justification in mind, where if you justify doing one bad thing then you will keep doing worse and worse things.
A Call to Protect: Turning Responsibility into Advocacy
Writing about my grandmother’s experience being scammed has always been really difficult.
The river knows your name.
I sit on my back porch, hoping for change. I’ve always wondered if the universe knows me.
Why Didn’t You
I wrote this piece with our future in mind, we often see apocalyptic scenes as something in fiction but this apocalypse is far from that.
Forever Yours, Time After Time
Writing about my characters was so exciting. I have never written a screenplay before, but the idea just came to me.
A Day’s Worth
A Day’s Worth is a collection of three poems representing the progression of time in, naturally, the span of a single day.
Unbraiding The Cycle
A true story of the strong women in my life, the cycles we have broken, and the traditions we have replaced them with.
Death Drive Chant
DEATH DRIVE CHANT came in the throes of escaping heat, the beginnings of fall, creative burnout, California’s fire season, and general death rattle.