Details: Creative Work
I use poetry, documentary, and public programming as tools for cultural equity and civic engagement. My work has been presented in museums, community centers, and festivals across New York and beyond, engaging audiences in reimagining belonging, sovereignty, and justice through art.
Residencies
Edward F. Albee Foundation — Writers Fellowship, (2026)
Tin House (Online) — Fall Workshop in Hybrid Writing and Poetry with Porsha Olayiwola (2025)
VONA (Online) — Summer Workshop in Prose Poetry with Oliver de la Paz (2025)
Hudson Valley Writers Center — Poetry Residency at the Pocantico Center with Brian Turner, Chen Chen, and Nick Flynn (2025)
Brooklyn Arts Exchange — EmergeNYC (2025)
Santa Fe Art Institute — International Thematic Residency Program: Sovereignty (2024)
Lambda Literary Writer’s Retreat for Emerging LGBTQ Voices
— Multi-Genre Writing with Marcelo Hernadez Castillo (2023)
— Poetry with torrin a. greathouse (2022)
Atlantic Center for the Arts
— Residency #184 with Jaquira Díaz (2022)
— Residency #159 with Natalia Almada (2015)
Fellowships
Royal Society of Arts — Fellow (FRSA), 2025 - Present
Lighthouse Writers Workshop (Online) — Connie Zumpf Fellowship for the Poetry Collective (2022 - 2023)
Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute (Online)— Innovative Cultural Advocacy Fellowship (2021)
The Home School (Hudson, NY) — Fellow (2019 and 2018)
Performances
Brooklyn Arts Exchange (Brooklyn, NY) — Performance Showcase: Emerge NYC (Jun 2025)
The New Museum (NYC) — “The Anthropophagic Effect,” Directed by Jeffrey Gibson (Jun 2019)
PARTICIPANT INC. (NYC) — “A Notable Fiction,” Directed by Valerie Lynn Werder (Fall 2018)
Screenings: Hip-Hop: A Culture of Influence
Film Society of Lincoln Center (NYC)
—Through Our Eyes: A Retrospective of Educational Video Center's Award-Winning Documentaries, 2013
— Debut Screening, 2000
Hip-Hop Nation: Roots, Rhymes and Rage Exhibition:
—Yerba Buena Center (San Francisco, CA), 2001
—Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (Cleveland, OH), 2000
—Brooklyn Museum of Art (Brooklyn, NY), 1999
Brooklyn Arts Council — International Film & Video Festival, 2000
Fledgling Film Festival (St. Johnsbury, VT) — Festival Selection, 2000
Taos Talking Picture Film Festival (Taos, NM) — Festival Selection, 2000
H2O [Hip-Hop Odyssey] International Film Festival (Bronx, NY) — Festival Selection, 2000
Hamptons International Film Festival (East Hampton, NY) — Youth Program, 2000
New York Public Library, Donnell Media Center (NYC), 2000
Rochester International Festival (Rochester, NY) — Honorable Mention, 2000
Poetry Readings
Gladys Books & Wine (Brooklyn) — Queer BIPOC Poetry Reading. Curated by Dylan Richmond (Nov 2025)
A Gathering of the Tribes (NYC) — An All Hallows Eve of Poetry w/ Bakar Wilson + Irene Villaseñor (Oct 2025)
Naval Cemetery Landscape at Brooklyn Navy Yard (Brooklyn, NY) — Invited by Rose Bordallo (Artist Resident at NCL) to read after her concert during Open House New York Weekend (Oct 2025)
VONA (Online) — Participant Readings (Jun 2025)
Hudson Valley Writers Center — Participant Readings at the Pocantico Center (Jun 2025)
Exquisites (Brooklyn) — Queer Poetry Reading, Workshop, and Publication Series (Apr 2025)
Center For Book Arts (NYC) — Reading for Annual Chapbook Contest Winners (Nov 2024)
Santa Fe Art Institute (Santa Fe, NM) — Open Studios (Oct 2024 and Sep 2024)
Liwanag Filipino Lit Fest DC (Washington D.C.) — Poetry Reading at the Karaoke Afterparty (Oct 2024)
Office Hours Workshop (Online) — Summer Reading (Jul 2024)
Lambda Literary
— Release Party for Lambda Literary's 2023 Emerge Anthology (Jun 2024)
— Writers Retreat Reading (Aug 2023)
Rainbow Book Fair (NYC) — Come Hear! Poetry Marathon (Apr 2024)
Sheepshead Review (Online) — Launch Party (Dec 2023)
decomp journal (Online) — Launch Party (Mar 2023)
The New School (NYC) — Poetry Media Race (Feb 2023)
Cave Canem (Online) — Class Reading: Writing Personas with Fred D’Aguiar (Jun 2022)
Whitney Museum Biennial (NYC) — A Gathering of the Tribes Marathon Reading curated by Regie Cabico (Apr 2022)
Cosmos x Yu and Me Books (NYC) — Community Reading Series for Asian Women Writers curated by Karen Mok at Yu & Me Books (Mar 2022)
Saint Flashlight (Brooklyn, NY) — Poet's Table curated by Molly Gross (Sept 2021)
Santa Fe Writers Project Quarterly Journal (Online) — Curated by Monica Prince (Aug 2021)
Museum of the City of New York (NYC) — Big Fun: A Night Dedicated to Diane Burns - Indigenous Art & Performance as Resistance (Jan 2020)
Starr Bar (Brooklyn, NY) — Q.U.I.L. (Queers United for Indigenous Liberation) Work (Nov 2019)
Caveat NYC (NYC) — Curated by Emotive Fruition
— Came Back With A Clap Back: A Celebration of Women’s Voices (Nov 2019)
— HEARTBREAKER / VERSE MAKER (Feb 2019)
— Everyday We Get More Illegal: Latinx Poets. Co-curated by CantoMundo (Oct 2018)
Activation Residency Fundraisers — Curated by Kamila Hakim
— Halloween Edition (Brooklyn, NY) (Oct 2019)
— Activation Fundraiser: Pleasure Edition (Ridgewood, NY) (Jul 2019)
Intimate Moments Show (Brooklyn, NY) Curated by Liana DeMasi (Aug 2019)
Smack Mellon Gallery (Brooklyn, NY) — Closing day event for “I come to this place” Exhibition (Jul 2019)
Studio 151: Revolutionary Spring (NYC) — Curated by Rachel Rabbit White (May 2019)
Office Hours Workshop (NYC) — Curated by Sarah Sala (Feb 2019) and (Oct 2018)
The Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church (NYC) — Fall 2018 Workshop Reading (Nov 2018)
AGAIN/ST.: A Night of Queer (N)e(u)rotica (NYC) — Curated by Dan Schapiro (Oct 2018)