The final paper I wrote for the NGLI summer program at Barnard College, where we spent weeks reading Mary Shelley's Frankenstein slowly and closely. It explores a paradox: Shelley critiques a world where women are silenced, yet her own creative process depended on male collaboration.

Another poem from my this fall

The final paper I wrote for the magical realism course I took at the Stanford Summer Humanities Institute in 2024. We spent the summer reading One Hundred Years of Solitude, slowly and closely. This essay came out of thinking about Remedios the Beauty, and how her beauty, clarity, and distance from the world shape the way others understand her.

Something I wrote at Tom’s Diner in Morningside Heights for a summer program I did at Barnard College this summer. Tom’s diner is one of the most well known diners in NYC (I think) - known for Seinfeld and Suzanne Vega’s Tom’s Diner.

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