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Interviews

"Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer." ― Rainer Maria Rilke
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  • Crab Creek Review publishes and interviews me as "Poetry Month Feature" for April 2022 #NaPoMo 
  • Moon Tide Press ​features me as "Poet of the Month" for December 2019
  • VoyageLA interviews me about Whiskey Jellyfish Poetry in Long Beach
  • Great, so let’s dig a little deeper into the story – has it been an easy path overall and if not, what were the challenges you’ve had to overcome:
  1. ​Unlearning cultural and gender expectations.
  2. How to balance writing authentically (creating for the self) vs. writing to please the invisible audience (creating pieces that people will actually want to read).
  3. The emotionally taxing aspect of teaching at the community college level.
  4. Income instability of being an adjunct professor and being a poet.
  • Nancy Lynée Woo interviews me for Out Loud: A Cultural Revoltion's "Artist Spotlight"
  • What is one major challenge you face as an artist?
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    "Two things: inheriting cultural loss and writing about the self. Although it is liberating to seamlessly integrate my identity into my poetry, the weight and fog of who I am, at times, can be insufferable." 
  • Q&A  with Cat Leeches, author of "Ichor" 
    ​"When I was a girl my nipples were hard enough to cut my hands — a point of pride... And the only way I could escape was to transform into an animal, swim across oceans of time, space, spit, and algae."​​
  • Q&A with Gail Aronson, author of "Silk" 
    ​"In the game, we were witches... We had no daughters. We had each other. We had our self."
  • Q&A  with Jenny Xie, author of “Pigeon Forge”
    ​"You want to pull her to you, fit her wet face in the hollow of your neck, but you can’t even stand to look at her."
  • Q&A with Erika T. Wurth, author of “Barry Four Voices”
    ​"Sometimes I tell myself, or the man who might eat me, that they’re all the same woman, white or brown, whichever hips are in my long hands late at night after the words have been vomited up.​"
  • Q&A with Sofia Samatar, author of “An Account of the Land of Witches”"
    ​"There is enough cruelty in the world,” she told me softly, “to justify all the music ever made.”
  • The Offing Magazine Editor's Feature 
    What doors does The Offing open for you?
    "Provide a queer and ally friendly editing and writing community" 
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