Hana and her copy of Gulf Coast!

I’m belated as usual, but I’m very happy to share that I had two poems published in the Spring 2023 issue of Agni (one of which is published online here), and one long poem, a retelling of Yé Xiàn, the origin story for Cinderella, in the Winter/Spring 2024 issue of Gulf Coast. Both of these journals are dream publications for me, so I’m really happy these poems found their homes there.

Myself and fellow inclusion interns Teri Vela, Priscilla Wathington, and Rowan Sharp.

I also completed not one, but three residencies at Warren Wilson since the first one in the US summer of 2022, and am currently working on my thesis manuscript. It’s been a life-changing experience so far, and includes some amazing DEIB work as an Inclusion Intern (pictured above). While I’m sad to step down for health reasons, I’m looking forward to producing some exciting new work as well as some critical craft lectures for my final semester.

I feel incredibly grateful to have recently been awarded a Neilma Sidney Literary Travel Fund grant from Writers Victoria to attend the 2022 Tin House Summer Workshop. Many, many thanks to Writers Victoria and the Myer Foundation for their support and the panel, which included author Ronnie Gorrie, writer and editor Radhiah Chowdhury, and publisher and previous Neilma Sidney Literary Travel Fund recipient Arwen Summers.

Although I have been lucky enough to attend Tin House virtually in the past, this time will be the first time I’ll be attending in person. Tin House Summer Workshop is an annual competitive writers’ conference of workshops, lectures, and readings run by Tin House Books in Portland, Oregon. I’m really looking forward to being able to learn and discuss poetry in a progressive and rigorous US environment (with Paisley Rekdal, no less!), as well as to meet some online poetry friends for the first time in the flesh!