My process includes writing down whatever is on my mind - I will dump information onto a blank sheet with no care for organization or spelling.

My art is reflective of how I feel when writing it. When the ideas for these poems revealed themselves to me, they were loud and demanding.

My artwork comes from deep feeling and experience.

My portfolio consists of three short pieces that I wrote for my English final that really became closer to a passion project than school work.

I was inspired by my time going to therapy and not remembering anything specifically impactful in my childhood I needed to resolve.

As an Asian American, I struggled to learn in the classroom about a diversity of Asian and Asian American experiences.

I wrote this poem on my 15th birthday, my golden year, a month before I came out to my mother as trans.

I am given unique perspectives on our human experiences and the way I observe and take in the world around me.

Many times what seems indelibly glorious can be manipulated for ill purposes or eventually devolve into the opposite of its intention.

I had a very real (and very hilarious) dream about my brother that inspired this short story.

When writing, I often wait for an idea to hit me, whether that be while I'm trying to sleep or in class or anything in between, and write.

My first poem 'Difference make me whole' is about the racially motivated comments that comes from a society that encourages me to change who I am and how I look.

If I had to describe my poetry, I'd say they are a shared experience.

I don’t really have a artistic process, I just let the words come from my body or things around me.

My writing has always been a flow of my thoughts and emotions.

This is an excerpt from a story about a group of friends surviving the apocalypse.

Exploring and expressing my creativity allows me to communicate with others and find peers who share similar identities with me.

This was a piece I wrote very recently about an experience I've been having.

Before writing this, I experienced a new sort of disillusionment, the kind that comes from realizing the way you view someone can have very little impact on how they view you.

The poem that I submitted is about someone very close to Me's battle with recovery from a serious drug addiction.