Biography
I am a third-year Ph.D. student working on contemporary poetry and poetics, experimental aesthetics, and race. I focus on contemporary Asian and African diasporic poetry within North America. More broadly, I am interested in post-1945 Anglophone and avant-garde poetries, the aesthetics of form, ecopoetics, and theories of translation. Some contemporary poets I am currently writing on include: Myung Mi Kim, Don Mee Choi, Renee Gladman, N. H. Pritchard. I am a co-founder of the Poetry and Poetics Colloquium.
As a poet, my recent books include: Bark, Archive, Splinter (Out-Spoken Press, 2024) and Imperium (Carcanet, 2022). Imperium was a winner of the 2023 Michael Murphy Memorial Prize, an Eric Gregory Award and a Somerset Maugham Award. I earned my MFA from Brown University. Originally from Edinburgh, Scotland, I now live in New York.