Togetherness

*Winner of Nightboat Poetry Prize *Author's work has appeared in POETRY, WUSSY, Mass Review, No Tokens, and The Margins. *Author is a member of the Brooklyn based drag/burlesque collective Switch N' Play, which has performed at The Whitney Museum of American Art, MoMA PS1, National Sawdust, New York Live Arts and at NightGowns, hosted by the winner of RuPaul's Drag Race Season 9, Sasha Velour. *Of interest to readers invested in hybrid formations of identity and artifice; high fashion; self-aware performances of kitsch and camp; drag performers, performance artists, queer Asian Americans. *Of interest to readers of life writing and immigrant narratives; those interested in radical negotiations and survival of state power through queer desire, tender sublimity, everyday transcendence and cultural forms of resistance. *Author received fellowships from MacDowell, New York Foundation of the Arts, Kundiman, The Asian American Writers Workshop, Poets House, and Lambda Literary.
*Poems were written a month out from them and their family's deportation proceedings.*Author currently works as the Communications Manager at Lambda Literary and the Editor of the Lambda Literary Review. *Author holds an MFA in Poetry from NYU
*Instagram: @theillustriouspearl