Tsawassen and its environs! Please join @catwrites604.bsky.social and me for a reading tomorrow at 7pm, Nov 11th, at Albany books!

So thrilled to be reading at the @deathridesaunicorn.bsky.social Seventeen Syllable Slam at @wordvancouver.bsky.social for a third year in a row! ✨🎉✨ See you at 12:30pm tomorrow at UBC Robson Square, Vancouver! ❤️❤️ www.eventbrite.ca/e/the-sevent...

Happy Pride Month! ✨🏳️‍🌈❤️🏳️‍⚧️✨ See you at my writing workshop this Saturday! ❤️❤️❤️

So honoured to be featured at Vancouver Poetry House’s Vancouver Poetry Slam for the 1st time earlier this spring!! ✨🎉✨ So grateful to share my poetry on the #VanSlam stage, including from my chapbook ZIPLESS & from @pulpliterature.bsky.social! ✨❤️✨

Big thanks to queer litmag Plenitude Magazine for publishing my poem “Floss”! ✨🏳️‍🌈🎉 So honoured to be published in Plenitude a second time! ✨✨✨ #queerpoets This poem was written in Elizabeth Bachinsky’s Poetry class ✨🎉✨❤️✨ plenitudemagazine.ca/floss/

So fabulous to read with poets Rose Henbest and @meghankempgee.bsky.social on May 4th to celebrate Rose’s new chapbook!! ✨🎉✨🍸✨

Thrilled to be presenting a Surrey Muse writing workshop for 2SLGBTQIA+ folks for the second year in a row! ✨❤️🏳️‍🌈❤️✨ Saturday, June 14, at Surrey City Centre Library! ✨✨✨ surreymusewriters.wordpress.com/2025/05/14/p...

So honoured to read at Surrey Muse with such a fabulous lineup on May 24th! ✨❤️✨❤️✨ surreymuse.wordpress.com/2025/05/06/s...

I’ll be reading with @meghankempgee.bsky.social in North Vancouver this Sunday evening to celebrate Rose Henbest’s new chapbook…See you there, folks! ✨❤️✨❤️✨ fb.me/1Ng2r6y4HGUy...

Oh my goodness 🥰🥺 thank you!!!

So honoured to attend @tinhouse.bsky.social’s Winter Online Workshop last month! ✨❤️✨ Big thanks to my brilliant workshop leader @chenchenwrites.bsky.social for his generosity & for his craft lecture featuring this @dseuss.bsky.social book! Thanks to my fellow students for holding space ❤️ #thww

RCLAS is on Bluesky! Let's start things off with our call for submissions for the annual Write On! Contest (Fiction, Non-Fiction & Poetry). Help us spread the word! Details on our website: rclas.com/2025-write-o...

So cool to see my 845 Press chapbook ZIPLESS on TV news (including The National & CBC Vancouver), as yesterday’s federal election campaigning included a stop at a Toronto bookstore! ✨ Big thanks to Kyle Hawke & @roblucastaylor.bsky.social for spotting my chapbook cover on TV and letting me know! ✨

So cool to spot my 845 Press chapbook ZIPLESS on TV news! ✨✨✨ Thanks so much to my pressmate Rob for the catch! ✨✨✨

Congratulations to our 2025 Tin House Winter Online Workshop Scholars!!! We're so delighted to be able to celebrate them and can't wait to see what moves they continue to make in the writing world. Let's all give these amazing Scholars their flowers! 💐💐💐💐💐

So thrilled to be featured at Vancouver Poetry Slam for the 1st time, next Monday, March 24! ✨❤️✨ This event is hybrid, so come to Shamshiri Caveman or join online! The top 4 competitors from that night’s 2-round slam will qualify for Van Slam Finals! www.vancouverpoetryhouse.com/event/vancou...

So grateful for in-person @tinhouse.bsky.social Winter Online Workshop hangouts in Vancouver, Canada! ✨✨✨ Yesterday I finally met the one fellow Vancouverite in my recent Tin House workshop… turns out Prachi Kamble & I graduated from Simon Fraser University’s Writer’s Studio a year apart! #thww

Beyond thrilled to be hosting the launch event for my friend @leataranto.bsky.social’s debut YA novel A DROP IN THE OCEAN on May 21st, with guest reader @yilinwriter.bsky.social! 🎉🎉🎉 See you all at Iron Dog Books, folks! ✨❤️✨

I love you, Vancouver BlueSky friends.

First earthquake I’ve felt in a long time!! #Vancouver

On February 24th I'll be back with The Writer's Studio Reading Series sharing some work, a light-hearted humorous essay on an experience from my early teen years. We need some light in the world. Readings begin at 7:00 pm at Container Brewing Vancouver Space limited. www.sfu.ca/continuing-s...

So honoured to read at my @tinhouse.bsky.social Winter Online Workshop today! 🎉🎉🎉 Big thanks to my fellow workshop students for the wonderfully warm reception for my funny & sexy queer poem, and for your amazing readings! ✨🏳️‍🌈❤️ It’s such a delight to be in community with you all! ❤️❤️❤️ #thww

So glad to restock Chinatown bookstore @massybooks.bsky.social with more copies of my chapbook ZIPLESS! Always a delight to see owner Patricia Massy herself! ✨❤️✨ I still remember posting about my chapbook being published and Massy Books reaching out to ask about stocking it! ❤️❤️❤️

So honoured to be Featured Poet for the 1st time, at the annual @gunghaggis.bsky.social Banquet celebrating Chinese New Year & Robbie Burns Day! ✨🧧❤️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿✨ I read a poem by Robert Burns & my Chinese New Year poem “Golden” from @pulpliterature.bsky.social, and ate haggis wonton & haggis lettuce wrap! 🎉🎉🎉

This poem: it's by Matthew Buckley Smith, from his book Midlife -

all this talk of “51st state” and “expansion” has me thinking about this thing i wrote about america coming for canada back in 2012. sickening to feel even a single iota of prescience

So honoured to read at a Robbie Burns Day celebration for the 1st time, between bagpipe segments! ✨🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿✨ I read the poem “My Heart’s in the Highlands” during my 1st visit to the Robert Burns Memorial statue, wearing the Harris Tweed hat I got while hubby & I visited Scotland to explore his heritage!

So glad to restock the always-delightful East Vancouver queer bookstore Cross and Crows with more copies of my chapbook ZIPLESS and to get some shopping done recently… I gawked at their beautiful rainbow merch and finally nabbed a copy of Melissa Febos’ Girlhood! ✨🏳️‍🌈❤️🏳️‍⚧️✨

My third collection of poems, UNRAVEL, will be published by McClelland & Stewart in Canada and the US on March 25. I am both excited and terrified to share it with the world. The cover was designed by Jennifer Griffiths.

For #LunarNewYear, we share 15 new and forthcoming reads by Asian-Canadian authors you'll love. alllitup.ca/book-list/15-books-for-lunar-new-year/

I was so incredibly honoured to serve as Featured Poet at the 2025 Gung Haggis Fat Choy banquet on Sunday! ✨🧧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿⛩️ Such a special fusion celebration of Chinese New Year & Robbie Burns Day that happened to honour both my Chinese heritage & my husband’s Scottish heritage ✨❤️✨

So honoured to win the Canadian Book Club Award for nonfiction memoir this year for STILL, I CANNOT SAVE YOU. My sister would have been proud. ❤️

I dunno Mary Oliver, the soft animal of my body is not loving this right now

How it feels to be an author on social media rn

SOME NEWS!!

Okay, like - thank you liberal cis people for posting about how "valid" trans people are, I get you want to be nice, but that is a functionally immaterial issue. The danger right now is not about being "valid" on a psychological level but about trans people's material rights being stripped away

I’m so honoured to serve as the Featured Poet at this year’s Gung Haggis Fat Choy banquet! 🎉🧧⛩️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 See you soon, Vancouver! ✨✨✨

RIP David Lynch. I thought you were immortal.

Goodbye, DAVID LYNCH, you left a void in the collective imagination that will never be filled. Thank you for the dreams and the nightmares and everything in between.

I’m on the road again this spring with Dear Writer.📗✈️ I’m heading to New York, Boston, DC, Baltimore, Nashville, Minneapolis, and Columbus. Plus one virtual! I hope you’ll grab a few friends and come say hello. This will be fun, and we have some surprises up our sleeves, too. See you soon. x M

Writing tip: After you finish, go back & cut all the adverbs. Then all the adjectives. Then all the other words. Eat the paper. Now you're free.

Huge thanks to the League of Canadian Poets for publishing my poem “I Will Never Know” in today’s Poetry Pause! This poem was an Honourable Mention for the League’s 2024 Summer Lovin’ Contests! Written in solidarity with all women, cis and trans… you are all my sisters ❤️❤️❤️ poets.ca/i-will-never...

Beyond thrilled to be attending the 2025 @tinhouse.bsky.social Winter Online Workshop this February with faculty member @chenchenwrites.bsky.social! ✨🎉✨🏳️‍🌈✨ My first Tin House workshop! 🎉🎉🎉

So delighted that my poem “I Will Never Know” was selected as an Honourable Mention in the League of Canadian Poets’ 2024 Summer Lovin’ Contests and is forthcoming in Poetry Pause! ✨✨✨ Congrats to the winners and to the other honourable mentions! ✨✨✨ poets.ca/summerlovin2...

This Halloween, it was so fabulous to be a featured poet at @deathridesaunicorn.bsky.social’s Famous Last Words for the 1st time, as part of the Heart of the City Festival! ❤️❤️❤️ So honoured to read with @kevinspenst.bsky.social, RC Weslowski, & Dina Del Bucchia, hosted by Sara Bynoe! ✨✨✨

This fall, I was so delighted to take part in the @deathridesaunicorn.bsky.social Seventeen-Syllable Slam at Word Vancouver for the 2nd year in a row… my 3rd consecutive year in this festival! Congrats to Leslie Stark on being crowned the winner 👑 & thanks to @mcgarragle.bsky.social for the invite!

This fall, I was so delighted to host Ellen Chang-Richardson’s Vancouver launch for their full-length debut BLOOD BELIES at Massy Arts Society! 🎉🎉🎉 At this event, we also celebrated Patrick Grace’s full-length debut DEVIANT, and heard some fabulous work from @davidlywrites.bsky.social! ✨✨✨

So thrilled to read at @deathridesaunicorn.bsky.social’s Liars of Orpheus series for the 1st time this summer… it was such an honour to read with Franz Seachel, Jillian Christmas, & RC Weslowski, hosted by SJ Valiquette at The Pleasant! ✨✨✨ Squeezing truths into a pack of lies was sooo difficult! 🤣

To kick off Pride Month 2024, I was so honoured to read at Pride and Plenitude, presented by queer litmag Plenitude Magazine at the Vancouver Public Library! Loved reading with Plenitude's Managing Editor Patrick Grace & Founding Editor Andrea Routley, along with fellow Plenitude contributors! ✨🏳️‍🌈❤️🏳️‍⚧️✨

This summer, I was so honoured to curate & host a Vancouver Poetry House edition of Royal City Literary Arts Society’s Poetry in the Park featuring Franz Seachel and Sonya Littlejohn, who routinely bring their talents to classrooms via VPH's WordPlay program! Thanks to Janet Kvammen for the invite ❤️