2024 Digital Residency Spotlights

Summer 2024 Digital Resident Elisabeth Vasquez Hein does a Q&A with Seventh Wave about her work.

Summer 2024 Digital Resident Camille Iman Woods shares a process piece, “When Leaders Let Go.”

Summer 2024 Digital Resident Angela Siew shares a poem that’s inspired by Laurie Anderson’s exhibit “Four Talks.”

Summer 2024 Digital Resident Markiyan Prokhasko shares an excerpt of a chapter from his debut book, The Dream of Antarctica.

Summer 2024 Digital Resident Tamiko Nimura does a Q&A with Seventh Wave about her work.

Summer 2024 Digital Resident Yomalis Rosario shares her poem, Rupture.

Summer 2024 Digital Resident Laila Milevski shares a process piece on the form of bare text.

Summer 2024 Digital Resident Seferiana Day shares an excerpt from an essay-in-progress, You Might Be My Sister

Summer 2024 Digital Resident Zoë Luh shares an excerpt from a hybrid piece, Writing into Dystopia, that expands on excerpts from a poem in progress.

Summer 2024 Digital Resident Mel Dunn shares a poem she wrote during the Summer Residency.

Summer 2024 Digital Resident Jasmine Gui shares a process piece about meeting Rafael Lozanzo-Hemmer’s Volute 1, Au clair de la lune and more.

Summer 2024 Digital Resident Allison Masangkay shares an excerpt of their in-progress work.

Summer 2024 Digital Resident Poppy Yozh shares a process piece about their work.

Summer 2024 Digital Resident Nyree Abrahamian does a Q&A with Seventh Wave about her work.

Summer 2024 Digital Resident Amandalynne Paullada does a Q&A with Seventh Wave about her work.

Summer 2024 Digital Resident Liana Fu does a Q&A with Seventh Wave about her work.

Summer 2024 Digital Resident Mallika Chennupaty shares a process piece about her work.

Summer 2024 Digital Resident Gabriella Garcia shares a poem she wrote during the Summer Residency.

Summer 2024 Digital Resident Czaerra Galicinao Ucol shares an excerpt of a poem with contextual words on process.

Summer 2024 Digital Resident Samar Al Summary shares a piece from 2021 to showcase her work.

“Lately, I have been writing about power—how it is stolen, how it’s manipulated, and what it means to fear its existence within you.”

“I consider myself a multi-genre writer. I will write anything—fiction, nonfiction, poetry, play—if the spirit hits.”

“Through the safe and tender space of the residency, I found a new approach to my art-making: writing as a gift to my reader.”

“Sometimes the most intimate and powerful work lies in the things that remain private and inaccessible for public gaze.”

“I bring into the room my family and relatives first and always. They are who have shaped me. My ancestors too.”

“My work is agitational and energized toward transformation and hope—I build worlds deeply rooted in liberation and decolonial imaginings.”

“Writing is a documented journey of self-growth as well as a way to be seen and heard.”

“A poem to me is like a small cat that curls itself around your legs as you wait for the bus.”

“I can only keep writing and hope that whatever comes out reaches anyone else who needs to hear the same words.”

“That is how the short story feels to me — tightly constructed narrative where details inevitably get shuffled around with some that get left behind.”

“The body is one of the best ways to express yourself, existing within the push and pull to exist in its natural state or change to your liking.”

“For me, writing is intense somatic work; art is about restoring, playing, and opening up.”

“I have tried not writing about my women, my identity, etc., but that never works out. Instead I’m leaning into it, generating poems about deshi womanhood.”

“How can we wrap our heads around loss when it is an ongoing process? How can we find joy in the aftermath of or during survival?”

“Once I stopped externalizing my need to have my aspirations validated, I could put all of that energy back into the work.”