Vermont Studio Center

Oh, this Emily Dickinson poem, that piece that I did in the show, with the life jacket.

You know, I had taken my my Emily Dickinson book of poetry to me in 2022 when I went to Vermont Studio Center to do a residency.

And she just always brings me to a place that is true, is genuine.

And so I stumbled on this poem, Drowning is Not So Pitiful.

sometimes I do.

Sometimes that's a good thing, you know, to force myself.

In fact, when I went to Vermont Studio Center in 2022, I said, no more big pieces.

I'm not making... i'm not making big pieces and so i was making these little 10 inch uh 10 by 10 square pouches and uh pillow forms as i think of them as and some of the pieces in in the recent show have some of those uh that were eventually uh uh combined into becoming but uh But that helped me to actually to have those constraints, help me to see what I could do as far as pushing an idea of, you know, trying it over.

Her work appears in Nat Brut, Ninth Letter, The Offing, Poetry, and Elsewhere.

She has many honors for her writing, including a Friends of Literature Award from Poetry Magazine, a Connecticut Artistic Excellence Award, a Brink Literary Journal Award for Hybrid Writing, a ninth-letter literary award, and fellowships from the Asian Cultural Council, Brooklyn Poets, the IPARC Foundation, and Vermont Studio Center.

She received her MFA in poetry from NYU and BA from Yale University.

Born to Vietnamese refugees in San Jose, California, she lives in New Haven, Connecticut, where she teaches poetry in university classrooms, community book spaces, and living rooms.

But it was, yeah, that was a huge kind of feat.

To accomplish, I wound up going to the Vermont Studio Center.

And so then I applied for Cranbrook or I applied to grad school.

I applied to several grad schools after that and chose Cranbrook partly because I had a really great studio visit with Heather McGill, who ran the sculpture program there when I was in undergrad.

Her work has been supported by the Alberta Foundation for the Arts, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the Ontario Arts Council, the Council of Arts and Letters of Quebec, and the Elizabeth Green Shields Foundation.

In 2018, she was the Canadian Artist-in-Residence at the Vorez Museum in Palenia, Greece, and in 2023, she completed a residency at the Vermont Studio Center in Vermont.

she's held recent solo exhibitions at durian contemporary in montreal and shrine in new york city and she lives and works in montreal michelle and i talk about growing up in canada making etchings shoegaze music time in japan quiet and paintings and much more here's our conversation so you're up in canada up in canada how is it up there

It's good.