She embodies a creative & meditative practice rooted in poetry, performance, analog photography & filmmaking, illustration, mixed media arts, string instrumentals, qìgōng 氣功, folk herbalism, dream divinations and acupuncture therapeutics.
Their writing has been published and is forthcoming in Arc Poetry Magazine, The Malahat Review, AAWW’s The Margins, filling Station, Grain, Red Pocket Press, petrichor, and elsewhere.
She is 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 been shortlisted for Arc’s Poem of the Year Award.
She has received scholarships from Brooklyn Poets, Tin House, Poetry Society of America, and Orion Magazine to attend writing workshops facilitated by Monica Sok, Cathy Linh Che, Hoa Nguyen, and K-Ming Chang.
They have exhibited with and performed at the Gladstone Hotel, Tea Base, Project 40 Collective, and Alumnae Theatre.
They are 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.