I'm Chloe!

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Two Selections from INHERITANCE

"Missionaries Show Me and My Mother How to Pray," published in Psaltery & Lyre, Scholastic National Gallery, The WIT (print)

"Abecedarian Appeal," published in Randall Albers Young Writers Award Anthology

Three Selections from APATHY

"my bravery lost a few of its bones / absolve me," recognized in Marginalia Poetry Contest

"Anaphora Using Terrance Hayes' Line 'If Each of Us Is, as I Sometimes Believe,'" recognized in YoungArts

"Two Photos from Vietnam," written as we read Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried in AP Lang

Two Selections from DISSECTION

"Each Lover Exists in Light and Pizzicato," published in Querencia Press

"Panels of a Drunk in the Bathroom," published in part in Eunoia Review

Sorry, I know we were about to get to the Fancy Stuff, but I need to include an aside: My mentors are brilliant. My school doesn't have much of a literary community, and it was easy to feel down in the dumps about my writing. Who knew if what sounds good to me was actually any good? What if my ear was broken or all shriveled up?I might've used up my life's luck by connecting with mentors (and peers!) who critique kindly and believe strongly in what I have to say. In fact, they were quite close to convincing me to jump the "physicist" ship and wade toward "MFA-poetry-faculty-land." Like the physicists I've met, my mentors have shown me that you can be a poet. For real. For work. Or, what I've realized is the more likely path, for fun. Still, I have no doubt I'll be writing poetry for the rest of my life. It's become my natural way of dealing with and celebrating and remembering my emotions. I've heard writing poetry feels like flying, but that's a gross simplification. Reading poet interviews feels like flying. Talking about poetry with Fir Acres and Adroit friends who care about poetry feels like flying. Writing poetry makes time fly, and when it finally lands, I find I've been obsessing over line breaks for hours, chasing that tingly feeling I get when a few words feel exactly right. But whatcanyoudo. Poetry = flight. I don't make the laws. Let the seasoned physicists work that one out. Now back to the regularly scheduled programming:

EDITING
- Rivener Literary Founder and EIC (2025-Present)
- STEMScribe Founder and EIC (2024-Present)
- JADE&COMPASS Editor (2025-Present)
- Skipping Stones Editing Intern (2026-Present)
- The Incandescent Review Editor (2025)
- The WIT Editor (2024-Present)CLUBS
- Co-Captain and audition-selected member of the Spoken Word Team, performed at Rooted&Radical
- School literary magazine editor (The WIT)PROGRAMS
- Iowa Young Writer's Studio Poetry Course (2025, instructed by Hannah Bonner)
- Ellipsis Poetry and Creative Nonfiction Writing Studios (2025, instructed by Sara Elkamel and Richie Hofmann)
- Fir Acres Writing Workshop at Lewis & Clark College (2026, instructed by Lisa Wells and Alexia Arthurs)
- Adroit Journal Summer Mentorship Program (2026, mentored by Rob Macaisa Colgate)
- SUNHOUSE Summer Mentorship Program (deferred admission to 2027)

SELECT PUBLICATIONS
2026
"Each Lover Exists in Light and Pizzicato" - Querencia Press (forthcoming)
Letter Following Night Spent in Parking Lot" - SeaGlass Literary (forthcoming)
"Missionaries Show Me and My Mother How to Pray" - Psaltery & Lyre, Scholastic National Gallery, The WIT (print)
"Calamities: An Immigrant Documentary" - The WIT (print)
"Abecedarian Appeal" - Randall Albers Young Writers Award Anthology
"Exorcising Physicality" - Eunoia Review2025
"wish you were buried" - The WIT (print)
"Language in Superposition" - The WIT (print)
"What We Carry" - National Poetry Quarterly (print)2023
“Eight Steps to Disappear" - The Battering Ram
"CLEAR HISTORY" - The Battering Ram
"A Moment to Regret" - Teen Ink

Honors
- National YoungArts Poetry Winner
- Chicago Literary Hall of Fame Randall Albers Award Poetry First Place Winner
- 2x Scholastic Art & Writing National Silver Medalist; American Voices Nominee (10/9500)
- 11x Scholastic Gold Key; 10x Silver Key; 8x Honorable Mention
- National High School Poetry Contest Winner
- Garden Party Collective Chapbook Contest Finalist
- Adelphi University High School Poetry Contest Finalist
- DePaul's Blue Book: Best American High School Writing Finalist
- Marginalia Poetry Contest 2x Shortlist, Selected by Ziyi Yan, Top 13 (“Missionaries Show Me and My Mother How to Pray"; “at some point my bravery lost a few of its bones / absolve me”)Praise for "Abecedarian Appeal":
This powerful poem uses the form of the “Abecedarian,” a type of acrostic in which each line or stanza begins with successive letters of the alphabet, from A to Z, while also using found language to reflect on motherhood, the female body, and the legislation that fights to rule over it. The poem is both a personally artful and exacting proclamation of being and the right to be, as well as a mirror held up to our troubled society, reflecting the warps in leadership that continue to do battle with the female body. The word “appeal” in the title, then, works as an actual appeal and a somewhat fractured legal appeal to some “higher court,” be that to God, the government, or to society itself, from which the speaker seeks some sort of comfort, however doubt-ridden (the speaker clearly acknowledges) as that request and belief in said “supreme” court may be.
– Timothy David ReyPraise for "my bravery lost a few of its bones / absolve me":
This poem moves with fast, feverish precision from a child who “choked on fish bones while begging God / another chance at life” to an adult measuring themselves in wounds. Through this act, instinct and violence whittle birthmarks. Meanwhile, the split, associative form you use allows private suffering and public indifference to reflect each other across the page, as if each image were the phantom limb of another. This poem is full of hauntings—hauntology—in this sense. But at its center is perhaps the most devastating confession of all: “I face only what I visibly encounter.” This line renders not only the speaker, but also every memory and history and community complicit in the slow violence of daily, ordinary life. It pushes us as readers to question our place, asking what we have done and how we can do more.
- Marginalia Editors

Rationale and Written Materials

Making science fairs more accessible is cool! Pay-to-play programs are not cool. I made a 40-page handout on my scicomm mag about how to get involved in research as a middle or high schooler (for free!). But through tutoring in a private capacity over the last four years, I've learned how rewarding it is to talk with my students and help them grow. So, while running STEMScribe was sweet, I repurposed these handouts into slides. This time as a rising sophomore, I returned to the Chinese School that had once taught me long division, now proposing a one-semester course on science literature:FIRST SEMESTER SYLLABUS
Throughout the course, students:
- Complete four pieces of scientific writing, including a literature review.
- Develop fundamental research skills.
- Gain a deep understanding of a chosen science topic.
- Orally present and defend their positions with confidence and clarity.SCHEDULE
1. Falsifiability, experimental and null hypotheses, purpose of research, and mini lab.
2. Experimental components, research paper analysis, and research paper summaries.
3. Research paper analysis, research paper defense, and persuasive writing.
4. Interactive literature review debates! Intro to creating graphical representations.
5. Lit review final showdown. Idea generation and topic selection.
6. Databases and other scholarly sources, paraphrasing, and formatting.
7. Source analysis, experimental components, and drafting.
8. Introductions and conclusions.
9. Presentations, PowerPoint, and responding to inquiry.
10. Peer review, sources, and revision. Mini lab and introduction to computation.
11. Statistical analysis and experimental research.
12. Purpose of research, future work, and persuasive writing.
13. Peer review, feedback, and oral presentation.My first cohort's first semester was a success! So I introduced a second semester, focused on experimental research, where my students conducted projects, wrote papers, and created posters. See their final symposium in "Media." Since then, I've taught five classes and mentored 25+ students one-on-one.This fall, my one-semester science literacy course is currently OPEN for students. I'm hosting an online session from 1:30 to 2:30 every Sunday. Shoot me an email to join the Google Classroom and receive Zoom links, materials, slideshows, etc.! All of my classes and materials are and will always be free.

Lit review debates












Final project presentations