is a first-generation Chinese writer and visual artist unconditionally supportive of Palestinian resistance and liberation. She is invested in the struggle of the Global South. Her collection, DIARY, is the winner of the 2025 National Poetry Series. They are homed at Beacon Press. They were instrumental in the creation of an Asian American Studies program in the Tri-College Consortium of Swarthmore College, Bryn Mawr College, Haverford College, and the University of Pennsylvania. As a freshman, she wrote and co-led the first student run course in Asian American studies for credit through the continued mentorship and support of Professor Roseann Liu and Professor Bakirathi Mani. After being awarded the Eugene M. Lang grant to work on an interview collection of young Asian Americans, excerpts of Yi’s collection became the first thesis submission in the new Asian American studies collection at Swarthmore College. While she’s been involved with formalistic writing structures, her interests and experiences have consistently been in community writing spaces; in 2020, Yi hosted a weekly community writing workshop / mobilization space through the East Coast Asian American Student Union as a member of their Advocacy team. Outside institutional spaces, Yi has organized dozens of community art workshops and gatherings that work across hybrid forms and experimental imagination. Her work has been awarded the Lois Morrell Poetry Prize, the Frontier OPEN Prize, the Sappho Prize for Women Poets, and the Writer in the Public Schools fellowship at NYU's MFA program. They are building at Asian American Writers' Workshop, Women's Press Collective, Undocumented Women's Fund, and more.