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 WRITER  TRANSLATOR  EDITOR

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she takes me to a gutted autoshop where bulldozers stop  / to fall apart               rusty rebars signing fire’s longhand on the walls  / spills REMming  /  she folds into a car pit making suckling noises  /  to a litter of broken parts 

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POEMS

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Print 

  • 'Mount Kachi-Kachi with a View of Mount Fuji’, Voice & Verse, 2022 

  • ‘You Seem to Have Forgotten', Voice & Verse, 2020

  • ‘Eating a Wampee’, Voice & Verse, 2019

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Print + Digital

TRANSLATION + EDITING

  • Translation of Hong Kong poet Leung Ping-kwan's「中午在鰂魚涌」 (Midday, Quarry Bay) was one of three Highly Commended entries in the open category of the UK-based Stephen Spender Prize 2024

  • One of two Chinese-to-English translators of Chinese Art Since 1970: The M+ Sigg Collection Thames & Hudson 2022, described as 'a definitive catalogue to a world-class collection of Chinese contemporary art'

  • English subtitles for the restored version of the 1968 masterpiece, The Arch (董夫人), which was showcased at Cannes 2025. Directed by Tang Shushuen, the arthouse title, one of Hong Kong's earliest, first appeared at Cannes in 1969 ('Directors' Fortnight')

  • Surtitles for the experimental theatrical work, Hard Times (艱辛歲月), by Edward Lam (林奕華)

  • Surtitles for Reframe Theatre’s play, Post Office in Hell (郵差本傳), which was adapted from the popular novel by Westwingmoon (西樓月如鈎)

  • English editor, 1st - 3rd Pingyao International Film Festival (PYIFF) curated by Chinese filmmaker Jia Zhangke  (賈樟柯), 2017-2019

APPEARANCES

  • Introducing Gansu the top destination in Lonely Planet Best in Asia 2017

  • Reading my poem at Canto Cutie Queer Issue launch, 2023

  • Facilitated ‘The Photographic Poem’ generative workshop for Taipei Poetry Collective, Dec 2023 

  • Member and workshop facilitator Taipei Poetry Collective

  • Read three of my poems at Not A Show, a music and poetry event in Taipei, 2023

  • Read poems at Poetry Night, The Centre, Taipei, 2023

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