Chrysanthemum

Chrysanthemum (she/her) is a poet, a performance artist, and a public historian. She is the winner of a 2023 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship and was a Kundiman Fellow, awarded Lambda Literary's 2023 Justin Chin Memorial Scholarship, and a 2019 MacColl Johnson Fellow. She was a finalist in the 2016 Women of the World Poetry Slam, and her teams were champions of the Rustbelt Regional Poetry Slam and the first-ever FEM Slam.

As a MacColl Johnson Fellow, Chrysanthemum organized the Vanishing Point Writing Retreat, modeled with guidance from Rachel McKibbens after the Pink Door Writing Retreat, to connect Asian poets in diaspora through collaborative, peer-led instruction. She served as artist-in-residence at Williams College with Justice Ameer, with whom she staged the interdisciplinary show ANTHEM at the American Repertory Theater OBERON. She and her work have been featured on PBS and Button Poetry and through Ours Poetica, The Nation, Them, The Offing, and other outlets.

Chrysanthemum was born to Vietnamese parents in Oklahoma City, where she was raised around the NW 39th Street and Asian American enclaves. She now calls Providence, Rhode Island home.