Jenna Peng

Jenna Peng is a writer who wants to be an artist. She writes poetry and art criticism, often both at the same time. She spends a lot of time thinking about The Undercommons, a politics of desire, time, wind, her friends, and the search for extra-literary (more than literary, more literary than literary) life. Her writing can be found in Harriet, the Asian American Literary Review, and various emails. Her hybrid poetry collection Knots in Wood, Nodes in Bamboo is forthcoming from Almost Perfect Press (2025). Off the page, she is invested in building spaces for collective playing and straying. Such projects include: Read-Shifting Web (a community reading room/literary art exhibition) and the Anti-Ante-Auntie-Seminar (a “writing” workshop series). She lives in Pittsburgh, on the occupied land of the Osage and Shawnee peoples. 

Photo credit: Karen Lue