Dec 2023 - Very cool to represent UCSF staff as the author of a notable UC book!
June 2023 - I’m so honored to receive the Lambda Literary Award for lesbian poetry. Thank you to YesYes Books publisher KMA Sullivan, my editor Stevie Edwards, Lambda Literary, the judges, and SAPPHO.
In September, I’m teaching a 4-week virtual Miami Book Fair workshop on images in poetry — come join!
March 2023 - I’m so honored to be a Lambda Literary Award finalist!! A dream come true.
September 2022 - I’m stunned that As She Appears is longlisted for the National Book Award for Poetry (!!). Thank you to the committee and everyone who believed in me and my work.
April 2022 - Early copies of As She Appears are flying! Pub date is May 10. See homepage for latest coverage and writing. Tour announcement!!
February 2022 - Starting the Year of the Tiger with the cover reveal, pre-order (20% on YYB website!), and blurb reveal trifecta! In awe of Alban Fischer’s gorgeous cover.
December 2021 - A joy when a poem finds a dream home! “The Winter Forecast” is part of the emerging writers New England Review winter issue.
October 2021 - It’s out! Beyond my dreams to be part of Best American Poetry 2021 with my grad school advisor Kathy Fagan along with dear friends and heroes — thank you, Tracy K. Smith! Also a joy to contribute a new poem to the second edition of the Wildsam San Francisco Field Guide (with JOAN DIDION!! a reprint of her legendary “Slouching Toward Bethehem” essay), sold in cute SF shops like The Perish Trust, General Store, Heath Newsstand, and Green Apple Books.
September 2021 - Three poems in The Offing!
August 2021 - Many thanks to Nico Amador for the kind words on my forthcoming NER poem; generous craft-related thoughts are so gratifying to hear.
July 2021 - Many thanks to Amanda Moore for her close reading of one of my favorite poems in the book, “Private Collection.” My poem “Inventory” was a finalist for the Georgia Review Loraine Williams Poetry Prize judged by Arthur Sze.
June 2021 - Honored to be the first reader to launch the Queer-Poem-A-Day podcast series! Listen to me read “Pride Month” online or on Spotify (!). Many thanks to Lisa and Dylan at Deerfield Public Library for this fantastic project and for discussing my poem on WBEZ radio (listen) in Chicago.
May 2021 - As a 2018 resident, I’m happy to be a part of SPACE’s Poetry Hotline. Call 207-828-5607 to listen to me read “Open Season” (week of May 24) or read online.
April 2021 - “After Mayflower in the Rose Garden” in Why to These Rocks: 50 Years of Poems from Community of Writers, now available from Heyday Books.
February 2021 - I am a 2021 Brown-Handler resident at San Francisco Public Library. Thankful for a yearlong writing space, local literary community, and getting to know my local Sunset branch library. Here’s an interview and short reading for Litseen — many thanks to Evan Karp, local literary organizer hero. I remain stunned by the passing of Anthony Veasna So and contributed a remembrance in this n+1 memorial gathering. Please look out for his short story debut collection AFTERPARTIES this summer.
January 2021 - Some stunning news: “How to Live in Southern California” has been selected for Best American Poetry 2021 (guest editor Tracy K. Smith).
October 2020 - Two poems in Waxwing here and here. Many thanks to RADAR for this feature highlighting queer artists.
August 2020 - Two poems and a pandemic prose piece in the summer/fall 2020 issue of Poetry Northwest.
May 2020 - My poem “How to Live in Southern California” is part of the Nature’s Nature feature in the May/June 2020 Kenyon Review issue. This poem is a new direction to write about my relationship to California as a fourth-generation Chinese American, delving into my ancestral history and understanding California as a place and environment. You can hear me read me the poem via KR Out Loud. Thank you to SineTheta magazine for featuring me as the writer of the week and doing a deep dive into my poems.
September 2019 - AS SHE APPEARS won the 2019 Pamet River Prize! I’m so honored and happy that my book found a home with a dream press. I admire their editorial work, design, and authors so much—Danez Smith, Ocean Vuong, Khadijah Queen, Raena Shirali, Diannely Antigua +++. Many thanks to KMA Sullivan and Stevie Edwards.
July 2019 - I’m honored to receive the Kundiman fellowship for the Vermont Studio Center, a four-week residency with a stipend.
2018 Kenyon Review Writers Workshop Peter Taylor fellowships
2017 recipient of the endowed MacDowell Poetry Fellowship
2017 MacDowell autumn fellowships