BIOGRAPHY

Kate Hao (she/her) is a poet and fiction writer, cultural worker, shy Leo, ex-pianist, soup enthusiast, aspiring morning person. Her writing has appeared in the Rumpus, Cosmonauts Avenue, Tinderbox Poetry Journal, and more. She is currently completing the master's degree in Public Humanities at Brown.

PROJECT DESCRIPTION

foundings+findings is an archival activation project for the pandemic era. Through a workshop series and a digital travelog that draws on found poetry as its guiding method, this project will embark on a shared search for meaning in Asian American movement archives across the country. In its travels, it attends to the particularities of local histories in order to question the meaning of present-day Asian American identity. Using clippings of the past as communal source material, foundings+findings centers collective learning and discovery in the process of negotiating history and envisioning liberatory futures.