writing + art · october 2026
what we hold
and what we carry
fall jeongman junction art and zen retreat
ann arbor zen buddhist temple
The connective tissue
I study attention, witness, authorship, and participation, and make forms through which people can attend to experience together: workshops, meals, exhibitions, writing groups, archives, and collective books. A poem, a body map, or an object can carry questions that also belong in research.
Ways into the work
Perception and relation / the practice of making forms
Perception + Relation
Workshops, social practice, teaching, facilitation, gathering, and research into the how people meet, attend to one another, and make relation possible.
The Practice of Making Forms
Writing, exhibitions, zines, centos, books, images, maps, installations, and other artifacts made to carry what might otherwise disappear.
Writing + Research
Essays, scholarship, methods, and long-running questions about attention, witness, class, care, embodiment, authorship, and participation.
Work With Me
Workshops, retreats, writing groups, facilitation, curriculum, community arts, and collaborative projects for organizations and communities.
Selected contexts
Research, teaching, facilitation, and public work across institutions and communities.
I am a Research Associate in Social Sciences at the University of California, Santa Cruz, working with Dr. Regina Langhout. My UCLA DataX and Gender Studies postdoctoral fellowship ran from 2024 to 2026. Current work also includes Amherst Writers & Artists, Cunningham Township, and community arts programs. Explore the project archive → View the professional record →
Current work
Research brought into public practice
Community program · Urbana
Homecoming: Writing, Making, Belonging
A six-session arts-based writing program developed with Cunningham Township and the Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center. It brings writing, making, witnessing, and collective publication into an inquiry into home, safety, connection, and belonging.
Book in progress
Trauma Diaspora
A book project on trauma, archives, embodiment, and the material and social practices through which people live with what cannot simply be repaired or left behind.
Exhibition · September 29, 2026
Where Is Home?
Mapping Safety, Connection, and Belonging brings work from 2012, 2018, 2024, and the current Homecoming workshops into relation at the Housing Matters Conference. The question of home returns through houses, bodies, objects, poems, and the work of getting together.
Work with me
Come to a workshop. Meet with me one on one. Invite me to work with your group.
Workshops
Join a writing group or arts-based workshop. Some groups meet over time; others are built for a particular community or occasion.
One-on-one project consultation
Bring me what you are writing, making, researching, or trying to bring into form. We can begin with a conversation about the kind of attention your work needs.
Organizations & groups
I work with groups on research, curriculum, facilitation, public programs, and the forms of participation that hold them together.