Barren, Living Proof — 2 Poems — Starling, 2026

we think so much of what is left when we are alive / that we invented a word to mean / it will never grow again.

the apple does not fall far from you because you won’t set it free — Poem — bad apple, 2026

still / apple of your eye, / i watched, tanned, / ruby-specked backs / of your arms fret / -working among the / ladder, the trellis, the / green bird net, a plastic / womb kissing each child / of the harvest.

On Gaming — Essay — The Seventh Wave, 2025

“I dream within the confines of my sixteen-inch screen, mouse-scrolling and clicking in my sleep.” My artist statement as the featured artist for The Seventh Wave's community anthology On Gaming, edited by dezireé a. brown. Illustration by Isabel Li.

Should You Leave First, I’ll Sweep Your Grave — Short Fiction — Kernel, 2025

“Death was supposed to be a private matter.” In this story, a woman grieves her late husband while having to perform the labour of his datakeeping—that is, the sorting and verification of all his digital accounts, profiles, and existences. The government asks her, as his next-of-kin, to do this work in memoriam. But as she leafs through his online personas and discretised lives, she begins to wonder: who is she really doing this for, and why? Link coming soon! Illustration by Isabel Li.

Trans+ History Week — QueerAF, 2025

Aya Kamikawa is the first out transgender politician in Japan, she is making history - right now. She's been instrumental in LGBTQIA+ rights in the country, including helping pass one of Japan’s first ordinances banning discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, gender identity, ethnicity, or nationality in Setagaya. Her story is the reminder, even on person can have, in the fight for a better society. Story by Kat Joplin. Illustration by Isabel Li.

5, 6 — Poetry — thismuch, 2025

Love poems about my partner.

Haunted Machine — Interactive Fiction — The New River, 2024

Haunted Machine is a multimedia artificial desktop fiction exploring the perspective of Siren, a writer grieving the death of her lover and conflicted about her changing gender identity, political standing, creative style, and cultural belonging amidst a near-future crisis of government surveillance and technological weaponisation. Illustration by Isabel Li.

between [you] and [me] — New Media Web Story — Fellows Collective, 2024

An aspiring poet moves to the imperial metropolis and builds a new body for himself. His childhood friend stays home, isled by the smallness of their low-cost labour technohub in the Asia-Pacific. Their reconnection reveals that dreams of the past are not so distant after all. “between [you] and [me]” is a multimedia narrative in electronic love(?) letters. As genderqueer Pacific youths, Deyu and Sayang’s paths intertwine in a dying world of uneven technological advancement and environmental destruction, where queerness and access to community feel like high-fidelity western commodities—impossible. This was also an excuse(!) to write a cheesy cyborg romance. Created with Sidnee Lim. Illustration by Isabel Li.

fetish — Computational Poem — Taper, 2024

I was thinking about lucky charms, rituals, and superstitions, and how many of these are physical motions or objects — what’s a ritual, a fetish in the digital age? Especially when superstition tends to be fending off the uncontrollable, yet the computer typically provides discrete executions that follow your exact instructions. I wanted to explore this through the context of coming of age on the internet — a time when everything is changing and very little feels within your control. Against the anxious buzz of teen uncertainty, this small set of every day digital habits and interactions become injected with desire, need, and belief.