Spaces That Shaped the Work

Festivals

Massachusetts Poetry Festival, Salem, MA (2025)

Brooklyn Poets Festival, Brooklyn, NY (2025)

Fellowships & Scholarship Awards

BWOC Literary Advancement Award, 2026
GrubStreet’s Boston Writers of Color 

St. Botolph Club Foundation Artist Award in Poetry, 2026

Brooklyn Poets Fellowship, 2026
The Return: Writing the Hometown, taught by grace (ge) gilbert

Beyond the Lyric: Writing Long Poems, with Sam Cha, 2026

6 Weeks, 6 Poems, with Brionne Janae, 2025

Advanced Poetry Workshop, with Imani Cezanne, 2025

4 Weeks, 8 Poems, with Sam Cha, 2024

Writing About Home, with Vanessa Mártir, 2024

Poetry Revision Workshop, with Mark Kyungsoo Bias, 2024

Transcending the Self in Poems, with Sam Cha, 2024

Writing Across Borders: Immigrant Poetics, with Sam Cha, 2024

Workshops

GrubStreet (Boston, MA)

Space & Time for BIPOC Writers, with GrubStreet Poets (January 15 – Present)

Beyond the Lyric: Writing Long Poems, with Sam Cha (March 26 – April 30, 2026)

Discovering Poetic Voice for BIPOC Writers, with Rishona Michael (March 18  –  April 18, 2026)

Another Tradition: Experimental Writing for BIPOC Writers, with Sam Cha (July – August 2025)

Contemporary Craft Series: Revelatory Breaks, with Kaveh Akbar (April 2025)

Advanced Poetry Workshop, with Imani Cezanne (January – April 2025)

Writing Goals for the New Year: A BWOC Project Management Session (January 2025)

4 Weeks, 8 Poems, with Sam Cha (August 2024)

Multi-lingual Poetry and Translation, with Sam Cha (July 2024)

Writing the Long Poem, with Mark Kyungsoo Bias (June 2024)

Ambitious, Aren’t We? Three Poems in Three Hours, with A. Tony Jerome (May 2024)

Poetry Revision Workshop, with Mark Kyungsoo Bias (April – May 2024)

Exploring Poetic Form, with Black the Creator (Pruitt) (April 2024)

Transcending the Self in Poems, with Sam Cha (April 2024)

Writing Across Borders: Immigrant Poetics, with Sam Cha (February – April 2024)

6 Weeks, 3 Poems, with Aimee Suzara (November – December 2022)

Toward an Anti-Racist Writing Workshop: Why and How Culture, Ethnicity, Race, Nationality Matter, with Marika Preziuso (October 2022)

Writing the Unexplainable, with Peter Medeiros (October 2022)

Brooklyn Poets

Virtual Writing Group, with Brooklyn Poets (September 24, 2025 – Present)

The Return: Writing the Hometown, with grace (ge) gilbert (March 15 – April 12, 2026)

Drop-In: Line/Dance: Breaking Down the Line Break, with Keith Wilson (July 2, 2025)

Tin House

Happy Poems! with Chen Chen (2025)

The Door of the Riddle, with Yanyi (2025)