Where to Find My Writing

Websites, Publications, Projects

current!
✎ everything matters to me: Head Writer
✎ Tell-Tale TV: Staff Writer
✎ Mediadiversity: Staff Writer
✎ The Stinger: Co-Founder & Head Writer
✎ Healthline Zine: Staff Poet & Poet Editorpast!
✎ Mumbles & Musings: Senior Writer
✎ College Admissions Blog: Blog Writer
✎ Senior Editor for The Indicator Lit Mag
✎ Summer Editorial Intern at Nonprofit (May-Aug 2023)

Zines

in progress!
✎ Glass Animals Fanzine: Head Moderator
✎ This Remains Unsolved: Writing & Social Moderator
✎ Are We There Yet? Zine: Writing Contributorcompleted!
✎ The Quest of Our Lives Zine: Writing Contributor
✎ Camp Sappho Zine: Poet Writing Contributor
✎ Unmask the Truth Fanbook: Writing Contributor
✎ Asian Foods Zine: Fiction Writing Contributor
✎ A Life At Sea Zine: Poet Contributor
✎ Buttons Zine: Poet Contributor
✎ Blood & Jupiter Tarot + Zine: Poet Contributor
✎ I Like Pears Zine (Issue 1): Prose Contributor
✎ Heroes Day Off Zine: Fiction Contributor
✎ Heartguard Zine: Fiction Contributor

Media-Related Writing

Media Analysis

what everything everywhere all at once tells us about home: Everything Everywhere All At Once leaves the audience with either an aching for home or an appreciation of people who make them feel at home, especially first-generation Asian Americans.bottoms is exactly what queer and trans people of color need: In contrast to the common tragic narrative of drama QTPOC films, Bottoms doesn’t shy away from exploring the empowerment and joy of sapphics of color.

TV Reviews

dead boy detectives mediaversity review: Dead Boy Detectives portrays a wide range of LGBTQ experiences that can help queer people feel seen at any point on their journeys of self-discovery20 iconic queer and trans characters of color on TV: As more LGBTQ+ characters are included in TV shows, intersectionality also becomes important as LGBTQ+ characters of color are still underrepresented in shows.

Creative Writing

Short Stories

soulmates: Lucy, a Chinese-American girl, develops a crush on the new girl in her class and struggles to choose between fate, love, and her family. (featured on Mumbles & Musings)sunny-side up: Wandering college student Vanessa shows up at the run-down motel that Minnie, a single mother, works at, and both of their lives are changed forever. (featured on Mumbles & Musings)

Poetry

family tree: In my 3rd poetry collection, I dissect a family tree patched together through hazy memories.
(sample from collection)fatal flaws: In my 2nd poetry collection, I capture the consequences of yearning and desperate love often rendered invisible by society. (sample from collection)

Personal Nonfiction

on how i saw the tv glow: I Saw the TV Glow is categorized as a horror movie, not necessarily because the idea of being trans and queer is what’s terrifying, but the idea that you’re not living up to your full potential, that the pain of denial is greater than the pain of acceptance, is something so viscerally relatable.on the love for performance: Everything that I write about my personal life, even if it’s about experiences that happened years ago, feels like I’m looking at something inside my body for the first time in my life.