Welcome to my poetry website. I began writing as a child, authoring acrostics for family members and failed first chapters of endless novels on our Smith Corona electric typewriter. I became more serious about my writing in high school, editing the yearbook, publishing poems in the literary magazine, and participating in various writers’ workshops and collectives. By the time I began my studies at Oberlin College, I knew I’d attain a degree in English and Creative Writing with a focus on poetry. After graduation, I had a few pieces published but then my life changed course and I attended seminary, became ordained as American Baptist clergy, and started a family. Yes, I’ve written countless sermons since then, along with songs for my band Whisperfight, but poetry reprised its role in my life in 2021 amid a global pandemic, racial reckoning, and open wounds among the Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) community. My poem, The Game Board: Second Generation Chinese American Female Edition—penned just hours before the 3/16/21 Atlanta tragedy that took the lives of six Asian women—went viral on social media and I knew then that my voice was part of a much larger story. Thank you for reading. It’s a gift to share my work with the prayer that it may—in even the slightest way—shift minds, hearts, hands and feet.