She embodies a creative & meditative practice rooted in poetry, performance, analog filmmaking, illustration, mixed media arts, qìgōng 氣功, herbalism, dream divinations and acupuncture therapeutics.
Their writing has been published and is forthcoming in The Malahat Review, AAWW’s The Margins, filling Station, Grain, Canto Cutie, Red Pocket Press, petrichor, and elsewhere.
They are a recipient of the 2024 Literary Arts Grant from the Toronto Arts Council (TAC) for her archival poetry project, Notes From a Bonesetter’s Grandchild: On Acupuncture Poetics.
She has received scholarships from Brooklyn Poets, Tin House, and Poetry Society of America to attend intensive workshops facilitated by Monica Sok, Cathy Linh Che, and Hoa Nguyen.
They have exhibited with and performed at the Gladstone Hotel, Tea Base, Project 40 Collective, and Alumnae Theatre.
She is a collaborator and website project manager of Zou Mat Je (做乜嘢), a transnational zine featuring critical and creative works by Cantonese writers and artists, a project originally formed by settlers on stolen Whadjuk Noongar land/Perth, Australia.
Claudia is from the unceded territory of the Coast Salish peoples, K'emk'emeláy̓ (colonially known as Vancouver) & is currently living and creating on Treaty 13, governed by the Dish With One Spoon Wampum Belt covenant, on the traditional lands of the Anishinaabe, Haudenosaunee, Huron-Wendat, the Petun, and the Mississaugas of the New Credit territory, Tkaronto, Turtle Island. She pays respect to all the ancient, present + future ancestors, Medicine people, and sacred protectors of this Land.