In many ways, my career as a creative writer began in 2019, when I tried to write an ethnography about working alongside housing activists and community organizers in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, only to find that the truest passages in my fieldnotes were those that read most like fiction.
Even as a work-in-progress, Hotel Blue would not be possible without the continued support and years of workshopping with the crew: Hugh Griffith, Elliott Gish, Judy Dercksen, Colleen Doty, Rebecca Chan-Gill, Frederic Sahyouni, Anya Wyers, and Uttara Krishnadas.
Since then, I have been working on a collection of linked short stories tentatively titled Hotel Blue.
If you like literary fiction, housing activism, and like me, marvel at the wonders of ordinary life, stay tuned and keep your eyes peeled for Hotel Blue!
published writing
FICTION & CREATIVE NON-FICTION
“Room 708: Mercy” in emerge20: The Writer’s Studio Anthology“you aren’t nice: on kinship, home, and being angry” (with Nicole Yakashiro) in Nikkei Images“being trespassers” (with Nicole Yakashiro) in Landscapes of Injustice Scholarship and Activism Forum
POETRY
“single mother on hastings” in Ricepaper Magazine (also shorlisted in the City of Vancouver City Poems Contest)“This sum is ill.” (longlisted in the ROOM Magazine 2021 Poetry Contest)
in Words Gathered Vol. 3: Community:“Lights on in the Regent”“ode to bob (for naomi)”“Redress”“threadbare woman”
in Tsunagu: Japanese Canadian Family Stories: