Alumni News - Trinh Lê's Debut Publication!

✦ We're thrilled to announcing the publication of Trinh Lê’s debut Everything is Illuminated in its Dying. Arriving to your shelf Fall 2028, this collection is full of devotion—to ancestors such as Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, as well as to the inherent risk-taking of Lê’s queer, archival poetics.

✦ Trinh Lê is a Bay Area poet, artist, and community archivist attending to the spiritual materials of lesbian life. Their multidisciplinary work has been supported by the Black Mountain College Museum + Art Center, the Academy of American Poets, Naropa University, and the San Francisco Public Library. Trinh’s poetry can be found in The Tiny, The Ana, and MORIA Literary, where they were nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Trinh holds an MFA in Poetry from San Francisco State University. They are the author of Everything is Illuminated in its Dying, forthcoming from Host Publications.