PROSE

Writer’s Statement

Since 2012, I’ve kept journals chronicling my travels in the U.S.A and abroad. This practice of on-the-go observation formed the basis of my style: detached, unsentimental, but not cold. I like to incorporate moments of poetic improvisation to help paint pictures in peoples’ heads. 

I view writing as an art form that can be a reprieve from morality– to look without fear, to write what I see and feel with an unflinching pen. Nothing sacred, nothing boring. Dwelling in contradictions. My work is primarily about limitations; limitations of fear, the body, love, class, money, and geography. 

It is tough, I think, to be a sensitive person in America. I want my voice to offer kinship to those who feel a similar sense of exasperation and bewilderment.

Travel Essays

I keep a journal when I travel. These essays are an attempt to translate rough journal entries into coherent tales of adventure. Names are changed to protect identities.

• Chinese New Year in Akha Village
• Chiang Dao (Part II)
• Chiang Dao (Part I)
• Pai (Part II)
• Pai (Part I)
• Chiang Mai
• Bangkok
• Shanghai
• Orange County

Short Fiction

Realities outside my own are explored in short stories.

• Doored!