Asia is a heavily tattooed, bike-riding, tea brewing, awarded writer and educator. She is a storyteller and arts leader who leads with authenticity, a sense of humor, and a love for all things creatively possible. She fell in love with writing in her English class her first year of high school, and it hasn’t left her life since. Her writing focuses on survival, queer womanhood, recovering from shame, and finding love (in self and all things) while grappling with the feeling of being unlovable.

Asia is particularly interested in the idea of effective and equitable writing education and using writing as a tool for cross-cultural dialogue, liberation, and encouraging people to write their own narratives. She has worked with writers of all ages and has developed and delivered poetry programming and workshops in Chicago and beyond and has performed nationally and abroad in spaces such as the Brave New Voices poetry festival, the Poetry Foundation of Chicago, and Queen Elizabeth Hall.

Asia’s work has been published in Third Coast, POETRY Magazine, Black Femme Collective, The Golden Shovel Anthology, Smartish Pace, riverSedge, Hartskill Review, Learn Then Burn 2, and various other journals and anthologies. She has been nominated for Best New Poets and her writing has been recognized by the Academy of American Poets and featured in national brands. Asia holds an MFA from Bennington College and has served as a 2022 Luminarts Cultural Foundation Poetry Fellow and an Ingenuity Constellation Fellow.