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

• “Liminal,” The Humber Literary Review, Volume 10 Issue 2, Fall + Winter 2022/23

Poetry Publications

• “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

• “Red Shoes,” League of Canadian Poets’ Poetry Pause, Mar 2021

• “Red Shoes” and “123456,” emerge 19: The Writer’s Studio Anthology (SFU Publications, 2019)

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

Poetry Award Nominations

• “Golden” – Longlisted for Surrey Muse’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 Award Nominations

• “Pride Weekend” – Longlisted for Surrey Muse’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’s Joy Kogawa Award for Fiction 2022

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 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 at Simon Fraser University with poetry mentor Joanne Arnott, 2019

Memberships

• The Writers’ Union of Canada    

• League of Canadian Poets (Associate Member)

• Creative Nonfiction Collective Society

• Federation of British Columbia Writers