My work moves across poetry, film, and curatorial practice to examine how identity is formed in relation-not in isolation. While my projects often draw from autobiographical experience, they are never purely individual.

I understand the self as something shaped by collective forces: cultural, familial, religious, linguistic, and political. We do not exist outside of these structures; we are continuously informed by them, even when we resist them.

As an immigrant, a mother, and a woman working across disciplines, I approach identity as a site of tension between inheritance and self-definition, between internal experience and external expectation. Language, in particular, functions as both a tool and a barrier in my work.

It carries memory and history, but also distortion, misalignment, and estrangement. This instability informs how I write, how I structure narratives, and how I think about voice.

In my projects, I examine how systems of perception shape our understanding of self and our individual agency. My creative practice tends to often times brings together multiple voices across cultures and generations, creating a collective framework through which personal experiences are both revealed and contextualized.

My role as the founder and director of WordShed Productions extends this inquiry into a communal space. For over eight years, I have curated and produced interdisciplinary programming that centers emerging and established artists whose work engages with urgency, vulnerability, and social consciousness. The platform functions and encourages dialogue and exchange, emphasizing the importance of shared experience in artistic practice.

At the core of my work is an ongoing question: how does the individual locate themselves within a network of influences that both shape and constrain them? Rather than seeking resolution, I create spaces on the page, on screen, and in community where these tensions can be examined, held, and made visible.

My practice is rooted in the belief that identity is relational, and that art has the capacity to both reflect and challenge the structures through which we come to know ourselves.