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He is the author of the chapbook Myriad Reflector (2023), finalist for the Poetry Online Chapbook Contest.
His poetry has been nominated for Best of the Net, and has appeared or is forthcoming in The Journal, Sonora Review, HAD, nat.brut, & elsewhere.
He has received support for his writing from Tin House Summer and Winter Workshops, and is a 2025 Hambidge Residency Fellow.
He lives on unceded Ohlone land in Oakland, California, where he serves as the vice-chair of the Oakland Mayor’s Commission of People with Disabilities.
He works as the Disabled Ecologies Lab Manager at UC Berkeley, where he is an acting member of UC Berkeley’s Police Accountability Board.
Before UC Berkeley, he worked as a high school English teacher in Oakland.
He earned his Master’s in Human Rights, Gender, and Public Policy from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs, and his B.A. in Creative Writing and Political Science from Linfield University.