Writing

 

Award Nominations

• Finalist for the 2021 Bisexual Book Awards’ Bi Writer of the Year

Poetry Chapbooks

• Zipless (third printing), The /tƐmz/ Review’s 845 Press, Nov 2021

Poetry Collection Award Nominations

• Zipless – Finalist for the 2021 Bisexual Book Award for Poetry

Creative Nonfiction Publications

• “Late Bloomer,” PRISM international, Issue 61.3 (The IBPOC Issue), Spring 2023
• “Liminal,” The Humber Literary Review, Volume 10 Issue 2, Fall + Winter 2022/23

Poetry Publications

• “My Love Language is Mastercard,” Arc Poetry’s website, May 2023
• “Pretend That Giving Up Avocado Toast Will Save You,” Plenitude Magazine, March 2023
• “Golden,” Pulp Literature, Issue 37, Winter 2023
• “for my husband on Father’s Day,” The Humber Literary Review, Volume 10 Issue 1, Spring + Summer 2022
• “Skin” and “I Rarely Write About Race,” Pearls 41: An Anthology of Work by Douglas College Creative Writing Students (Douglas College, 2022)
• “Red Shoes,” League of Canadian Poets’ Poetry Pause, Mar 2021
• “Red Shoes” and “123456,” emerge 19: The Writer’s Studio Anthology (SFU Publications, 2019)

Poetry Awards

• “My Love Language is Mastercard” – Winner of Arc Poetry’s March 2023 Arc Award of Awesomeness
• “How I Earned My Queer Card” – 1st Runner-up for Pulp Literature’s 2023 Magpie Award for Poetry

Contest judge Renée Sarojini Saklikar: “[A] fascinating merge of the prose poem with a lyric voice; plus, a powerful witness. We see the speaker in this poem and they resonate.”

• “Brideprice” – Shortlisted for Pulp Literature’s 2023 Magpie Award for Poetry
• “Golden” – Longlisted for Surrey Muse Arts Society’s Vera Manuel Award for Poetry 2022
• “Golden” – Shortlisted for Pulp Literature’s 2022 Magpie Award for Poetry
• “Sapphic Yearning Disasters” – Longlisted for Pulp Literature’s 2022 Magpie Award for Poetry

Creative Nonfiction Awards

• “Pride Weekend” – Shortlisted for The Fiddlehead’s 2023 Creative Nonfiction Contest
• “Pride Weekend” – Longlisted for Surrey Muse Arts Society’s Susan Crean Award for Nonfiction 2022
• “Girl Crush or Crush Crush?” – Shortlisted for Room Magazine’s 2022 Creative Nonfiction contest
• “Late Bloomer” – Shortlisted for The Fiddlehead’s 2021 Creative Nonfiction contest
• “Twenty-Minute Workout: Crushing a Crush” – Longlisted for the Federation of BC Writers’ 2021 Creative Nonfiction contest
• “Twenty-Minute Workout: Crushing a Crush” – Longlisted for The Humber Literary Review’s/Creative Nonfiction Collective Society’s 2021 Creative Nonfiction contest

Fiction Award Nominations

• “Boardwalk” – Longlisted for Surrey Muse Arts Society’s Joy Kogawa Award for Fiction 2022

Guest Columns

• “Notes from the Field : Hello from Vancouver!,” rob mclennan’s periodicities : a journal of poetry and poetics, Apr 2023

Guest Blog Posts

• “Solace Amidst the Exposure: How Publishing and Community Brought Me Back to Myself,” The Nourishing Word blog at Chelene Knight’s Breathing Space Creative Literary Studio, May 2022
• “Catherine Lewis: My (Small Press) Writing Day,” rob mclennan’s my (small press) writing day blog, Oct 2019

Residencies

• Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity’s Literary Arts Residency “Poetry, Politics, and Embodiment” with Mercedes Eng and Sachiko Murakami, Oct 2021

Workshops

• QueerAsian Writing Circle led by C.E. Gatchalian and Effie Pow, Historic Joy Kogawa House, Apr–May 2023
• QueerAsian Summer Writing Workshops led by C.E. Gatchalian, Historic Joy Kogawa House, Jul–Aug 2021

Exhibitions

• LINE & LENS Photopoetry Exhibition, Simon Fraser University, Nov 2019

Education

• Creative Writing credit coursework in poetry, memoir and fiction, Douglas College, 2019–2021
• Vancouver Manuscript Intensive with memoir mentor Betsy Warland, 2020
• The Writer’s Studio Certificate in Creative Writing (with poetry mentor Joanne Arnott), Simon Fraser University, 2019

Volunteer Experience

• Board of Directors, Vancouver Poetry House    

Memberships

• The Writers’ Union of Canada    
• League of Canadian Poets (Associate Member)
• Vancouver Poetry House
• Creative Nonfiction Collective Society
• Federation of British Columbia Writers