Tethered
Ashley M.
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My work centers around topics of ephermerality, culture, and family, things that often change shape over time. I enjoy portraying the world through the inheritances we carry from those who raised us: their habits, their silences and wounds. Love and cruelty can live in the same gesture, and something broken, whether a person or item, can still buzz with life. I think a lot about my family’s stories: each poem feels like a conversation with whom and what came before me.
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Creativity began in my family's kitchen, with the clatter of plates and voices. Writing gave me a quiet place to breathe. As I’ve grown, poetry has become a way to bridge my Chinese and American selves, to turn family tension and inherited silence into understanding and connection.
