About me
Chrysanthemum is a poet and performance artist in Rhode Island, where she serves as Co-Director of the Providence Poetry Slam. She is currently Writer-in-Residence for the Providence Commemoration Lab. She has received fellowships from Poetry Foundation, Kundiman, Rhode Island Foundation, and Lambda Literary, which named her LGBTQ Writers in Schools’ inaugural Poet-in-Residence in 2024. With Justice Ameer, she staged the two-woman show ANTHEM at the American Repertory Theater's OBERON. She broke ground in 2016 as the first trans woman finalist of the Women of the World Poetry Slam, and her teams were champions of the Rustbelt Poetry Slam and the first FEM Slam. Her writing appears in Poem-a-Day, The Nation, The Rumpus, Them, Button Poetry, among others. She was born to Vietnamese parents in Oklahoma.
