Works / CV
Publications / Essays, Articles & Public Statements
2026 “5 Remarkable Benefits of Volunteering to Empower Community” Powderhorn Press Newsletter. Issue 6/2026.
2026 “Reflections on Our Remarkably Beautiful MLK Celebration” Powderhorn Press Newsletter. Issue 3/2026.
2026 “ICE in Powderhorn” Powderhorn Press Newsletter & ICE Public Statement. Issue 1/2026.
2025 “5 Direct Ways To Empower Community This Giving Season” Powderhorn Press Newsletter. Issue 12/2025.
2025 “Protect Your Neighbors” Powderhorn Press Newsletter & ICE Public Statement. Issue 12/2025.
2025 “Pets of Powderhorn 2025: The Companions the Fill Our Lives with Love". Powderhorn Press Newsletter. Issue 11/2025.
2025 “Celebrating Powderhorn at Our 2025 Annual Gathering.” Powderhorn Press Newsletter. Issue 9/2025.
2025 “Why the Renter Support Fund Matters Now More than Ever” Powderhorn Press Newsletter. Issue 3/2025.
2025 “How to Reclaim Your Lost Culture,” Expozure Magazine. Vol 1. Print. Q4 2025.
2025 “27 years of Impact: What’s new at this year’s MLK Celebration” Powderhorn Press Newsletter. Issue 1/2025.
2024 “September is Suicide Prevention Month. Here's how you can help.” Powderhorn Press Newsletter. Issue 9/2024.
2024 “First Glance: The Wonders of the Powderhorn Art Fair” Powderhorn Press Newsletter. Issue 7/2024.
2024 “Celebrating Asian Pacific Legacy & Uniting Against Hate,” Powderhorn Press Newsletter. Issue 5/2024.
Publications / Poems
2025 “The Gaymers,” Expozure Magazine. Vol 1. Print.
Publications / Photography & Press
2026 PPNA. July 2026. Staff. www.ppna.org/staff
2026 PPNA. Aug - Sept 2026. 35th Annual Powderhorn Art Fair & 14th Annual Powderhorn Porchfest. Event Press Kit.
2025 PPNA. Aug - Sept 2025. 34th Annual Powderhorn Art Fair & 13th Annual Powderhorn Porchfest .Event Press Kit.
2024 PPNA. Aug - Sept 2024. 33rd Annual Powderhorn Art Fair & 12th Annual Powderhorn Porchfest .Event Press Kit.
Grants and Fellowships
2026-27 Year-Long Writing Project with Junauda, Scholarship Recipient, The Loft Literary Center, Minneapolis, MN
2026-27 Work of Art Facilitator Training, Full Scholarship, Springboard for the Arts, Minneapolis, MN
2025 Emerging Artist Fellow, Queer Voices MN, Minneapolis, MN
Readings, Lectures, and Presentations
2026 “Moon Flower Mudang”, Year-Long Writing Project with Junauda, The Loft Lit Center, MN, Aug 6
2025 “Emerging Writers Retreat,” ARC Retreat Center, Braham MN, March 15
2025 “Celebrating Emerging Writers,” Boneshaker Books, Minneapolis MN, September 27
Literary Groups
2026 Founder: Global Majority Writing Collective, Remote, MN
2023-25 Co-founder: Twin Cities BIPOC Writing Group, Open Book, Minneapolis, MN
Experience
2026 Contributing writer for Lavender Magazine LLC, MN
2023-26 Communications & Operations Director, Powderhorn Neighborhood, Minneapolis, MN
2025-26 Content Writer for Expozure Magazine, Minneapolis, MN
Education
2022 92 credits towards an Independent BA in English, Cultural Studies & Comparative Lit, and Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
Works in Progress
2025-27 Moon Flower Mudang, historical fantasy, 28,000 words
2024-27 Letters to My Ancestors, prose, 15,000 words
2015-27 Poetry collection, 150 poems
2015-27 Untitled Legacy Project, Family Memoir, 50,000 words + recorded interviews
2014-27 Consecutive handwritten journals, Volumes 1-27
Pop Culture Essays
2019 We Are All Dirty Computers: An Afro-Queer Future of Love, May 14
2018 Blade: The Hegemonic (Vampire) Hunter, March 18
Courses / Trainings / Workshops – Participant*
2026 “Work of Art Facilitator Training”, Springboard for the Arts, Remote, MN, October 1 - 23
2026 “Writing the Scary, Unsettling, Uncanny & Strange”, The Loft Lit. Center, Remote, MN, Sept 23 – Oct 28
2026 “Summer 2025 8 Week Novel Writing”, The Loft Literary Center, Remote, MN, June 9 – Aug 3
2026 “Fiction in Your Fact”, The Loft Literary Center, Remote, MN, March 2 – April 7
2026 “Intermediate Grant Writing”, Minnesota Council of Nonprofits, Minneapolis, MN, March 17
2026 “Embodying the Erotic & Sensualizing the Speculative”, The Loft Lit. Center, Remote, MN, Feb 21
2025 “Queer Voices Writing Bursts”, Remote, MN, Recurring.
2025 “Beginner Grant Writing”, Minnesota Council of Nonprofits, Minneapolis, MN, December 11
2025 “Work of Art” workshops, Springboard for the Arts, Minneapolis, MN
2025 “Braided Narratives”, The Loft Literary Center, Remote, MN, September 16 – October 14
2025 “Strange Fiction”, The Loft Literary Center, Remote, MN, April 30 – May 6
2025 “Anti-Capitalist Fiction”, The Loft Literary Center, Remote, MN, February 18 - March 3
2025 “Finessing Historical Fiction,” The Loft Literary Center, Remote, MN, June 18 – July 16
Mentored By
2026-27 Junauda Petrus in Novel Writing, 2025 – 2026 Poet Laureate for the City of Minneapolis, Author of The Stars And The Blackness Between Them
2025-26 Sherrie Fernandez-Williams in Writing. 2021-2023 Jerome Hill Artist Fellow. Co-curator of Queer Voices of MN. Author of Soft: A Memoir and Goddess of the Whole Self
2025 Halee Kirkwood in Poetry, published in Poetry Magazine, Prairie Schooner, December Magazine, Ecotone Magazine, Gulf Coast Journal, Water~Stone Review, Poem-A-Day, and others.
2022-25 Tabitha Montgomery in Professional Writing and Marketing, Executive Director of Powderhorn Park Neighborhood Association.
2018 – 22 Matt Hadley in Cultural Studies & Comparative Literature, University of Minnesota
2020-21 May Lee-Yang, in Fiction and Creative Writing, Co-Founder of Funny Asian Women Kollective (FAWK), Finnovation Fellow, 2023 Playwright Center McKnight Fellow, MFA Creative Writing U of M
2018-20 Danny Kossow, in Poetry, MFA Creative Writing, University of Minnesota