She embodies a creative & meditative practise rooted in poetry, performance, analog filmmaking, illustration, qìgōng 氣功, herbalism, dream divinations and acupuncture therapeutics.
Their writing has been published and is forthcoming in AAWW’s The Margins, filling Station, Grain Magazine, Canto Cutie, Red Pocket Press, petrichor, and elsewhere.
Claudia is a recipient of the 2024 Literary Arts Grant by the Toronto Arts Council (TAC) for her archival poetry project, Notes From a Bonesetter’s Grandchild: On Acupuncture Poetics.
They have exhibited with and performed at the Gladstone Hotel, Tea Base, Project 40 Collective, and Alumnae Theatre.
She is a co-collaborator of a small print & online zine, Zou Mat Je 做乜嘢, a project originally formed by settlers on stolen Whadjuk Noongar land/Perth, Australia with critical and creative works by Cantonese writers and artists.
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Claudia is from the unceded territory of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm Coast Salish peoples & 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 and Mississaugas of the New Credit territory, Tkaronto, Turtle Island. She pays respect to all the ancient, present + future ancestors, Medicine people, and protectors of this Land.