I am happy to be collaborating with the wonderful nonprofit organization LA River Arts through the California Creative Corps program!
Thank you to New Delta Review for nominating my poem “Rain Bomb Anti-Ode” for a Best of the Net award!
Thanks to Kelsey Bryan-Zwick and The Poetry Lab for featuring my book I’d Rather Be Lightning in their “10 AAPI Poets to Read This Year.”
Nancy is a recipient of the 2023 California Creative Corps grant, a program that pairs artists and non-profits to create public arts programming. She is working with the non-profit DSTL Arts as a mentor in their Poet/Artist Development Program.
Together, Nancy and DSTL Arts will produce a Creative Impact Project on topics of LA Transit and Urban Ecology, offering free workshops to the community and a submissions window that will culminate in two printed anthologies and a public reading.
Artists At Work (AAW) is a workforce resilience program designed to support the rebuilding of healthy communities through artistic civic engagement. Conceived as a public/private partnership, the program will provide a salary, plus full health benefits and professional development resources directly to participating artists; provide financial support to participating local cultural organizations; and connect both to the work of local social impact initiatives in areas such as antiracism, justice reform, sustainability and equitable development, health, economy, homelessness and housing, child welfare, and immigration. It is designed to impact the whole ecosystem of a community.
Artists At Work was an idea inspired by the WPA and founded by THE OFFICE performing arts + film with an initial pilot in Western Massachusetts in 2020. Following that success, AAW was recently awarded $3M by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to expand its program in other parts of the country, starting in Los Angeles County in Fall 2021. More information can be found at artists-at-work.org.
Artists At Work is produced and administered by THE OFFICE performing arts + film with generous support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. THE OFFICE extends special thanks to the FreshGrass Foundation for their partnership and support and thanks to local partner Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture and AAW national partners International Storytelling Center, Sundance and Theater of War Productions.
November 2021
Thank you to West Trade Review for nominating my poem “Naysaying the Noise” for a Pushcart Prize!
Thank you to West Trade Review for nominating my poem “Naysaying the Noise” for a Pushcart Prize!
November 2021