in forthcoming book Uncertain Girls in Uncertain Times published by Red Hen Press | 2025


CV

forthcoming

Contributing author

Read Thu’s Work

Guides

for Emperor of Gladness by Ocean Vuong | May 2025


Essays

for Soapberry Review | December 2024


for Soapberry Review | August 2024


in Soapberry Review | May 2022


Poetry

“The Long Way”

in Good River Review | April 2025


in Diode | March 2025


in Bellingham Review | February, 2025


in Panorama | 2024


in Revolute Lit | May 2022 | 2024


in Southern Humanities Review | 2021

Performances and Workshops

Awards and Positions

ED Advisory Committee at DC Arts Center in DC | ongoing since March 2025


“The Long Way” Honorable Mention at Bethesda Writer’s Center | March 2025


Pushcart Prize nominee for “We Were Made This Way” published by Revolute | October 2022


Reading Standing Committee Member for the National Assessment on Educational Progress | 2021-2024


Chair of Subcommittee on the Young Adult Book Awards for International Literacy Association | 2022-2024


Staff at the National SEED Project | ongoing since June 2020


Additional Paintings

Floral Spring menus | NUE in VA | October, 2024


Featured Floral Mural | Culture House in DC | September 2024


“The Story of Fruit” | NUE restaurant in VA | July 31, 2024


Floral mural | Sparkfest24 at Amphibian Stage in Fort Worth, Texas | June 7, 2024


Performances and Workshops

Hey! We Need to Talk featured poet at University of Michigan Museum of Art | May 2025

Dialogue poetry at High Desert Museum in Bend, OR | May 14, 2025

IlluminAsia Asia After Dark Poetry at National Museum of Asian Art | May 2025

“Art and Activism” Social Justice Day Speaker at Lowell School in DC | April 2025

Greenway Poetry Series at People’s Book Takoma | April 2025

Featured poet Reuben Jackson Jazz Poetry Set at American Poetry Museum | March 2024

Unassimilable book club discussion leader for Soapberry Review | March 2024

Featured poet at the Inn at Little Washington | February 14, 2025

“50 Years of HOPE and HA-HAs” | Vagabond @ DC Commission on the Arts and  Humanities | January 25, 2025.

“Art and Activism” MLK Assembly at the Maret School | January 2025

Lunar New Year poems for NUE at Smithsonian in DC | January 2025

“Imagining a Flourishing Future” | Art & Democracy Day at Hopkins Bloomberg Center | October 22, 2024.

“We Need To Talk: Repairing Our Social Fabric One Creative Conversation At a Time” | Davidson College | September 30, 2024.

Spring Poetry at Folger Theater in DC | August 3, 2024

Dialogue poetry at NUE restaurant in VA | July 31, 2024

“Cut Fruit” storytelling at the National Museum of Asian Art | June 22, 2024

“Art in Civic Education” | The Sphere Initiative at the Cato Institute | June 22, 2024.

“We Are the Greatest Poems” | Sparkfest24 at Amphibian Stage in Fort Worth, Texas | June 7, 2024

Featured AANHPI speaker at FIS Global, and poet in residence | May 20, 2024.

“Road To Recovery: A Poetic Response” | Brentwood Arts Exchange | May 19. 2024.