River 瑩瑩 Dandelion

River 瑩瑩 Dandelion is a creative writer, cultural organizer, and facilitator from Brooklyn, NY on Lenape Land. His body of work centers migration, race, displacement, and intergenerational resistance and resilience. As an organizer, he works on education justice, immigration, and anti-displacement campaigns from Chinatowns to the border. He also facilitates writing workshops for QTBIPOC that use writing as a tool to cultivate our radical imaginations for liberation. River has received fellowships and awards from the Asian American Writers’ Workshop, VONA/Voices, Poetry Foundation, and American Education Research Association. He is currently writing a memoir about his journey tracing family roots in Toisan, China, and exploring ancestral lineages past and future. He loves to swim and does this work for queer and trans ancestors and descendants to come. You can connect with River on IG: @rememberingourlight. Formerly known as huiying b. chan.