Created at Kala Art Institute
Berkeley, CA, 2026
Lumen print.
Created at Kala Art Institute
Berkeley, CA, 2026
Lumen print.
Summer Lake, OR
2025
Medium-format.
Berkeley, CA, 2026
ii exhibited at Bathers Library, Cohorts Season One Group Show
Lumen print.
Summer Lake, OR
Medium-format.
Los Angeles, 2021
Portraiture of Asian America.
2. A Mountain and a Forest (right)
2023
Scenes of deforestation.
Yosemite Valley, CA
2023
Yosemite series.
Berkeley, CA
Shi has been awarded residencies by Vermont Studio Center, Prelinger Library, Winslow House Project, PLAYA Summer Lake, Kala Art Institute, and The Ruby, and has received writing scholarships from Off Assignment, Kearny Street Workshop, and Left Margin LIT. Her writing has been nominated for the PEN Dau Prize 2023 and Best New Poets 2025, while receiving recognition from Dzanc Books, Gulf Coast, and Puerto del Sol. Her work is available online at zyzzyva Magazine, where she is a staff writer, as well as at Michigan Quarterly Review: Mixtape, The Margins, The Drift, Common Forms, The Adroit Journal, and The Rumpus, where she reads poetry. She is a journalism mentor at Prison Journalism Project.
She runs the experimental press Doll Hair with her partner Tim Tran and is revisiting piano days.
Photo by Tim Tran
Masters in the Humanities
2019
The University of California, Berkeley
BA English (Minor Creative Writing)
2018
Beijing University
(3 months)
Essay Coach
2025 - Present
Research Assistant
UC Santa Cruz
2023
Christopher T. Fan
Research Assistant
University of California, Irvine
2020 - 2021
Sophie Volpp
Research Assistant
University of California, Berkeley
2017
Bathers Library Mini Mag
California Magazine
Common Forms
Copytext Magazine
Denver Quarterly
Doll Hair
Hyphen Magazine
I Have That on Vinyl
UC Berkeley Letters & Science
Irrelevant Press
Jaded Ibis Press: Scarlet, A Literary Journal
La Piccioletta Barca
Mande: A Journal of Bipolar Talent
(upcoming) Memwa Magazine
Michigan Quarterly Review: MQR
Sine Theta Magazine
(upcoming) The Adroit Journal
The Annex
The Daily Californian
The Drift
The Frida Cinema
The Orange County Register
The Rumpus
UChicago Arts
UChicago News
Whale Road Review
(upcoming) zyzzyva
Reading
Prelinger Library
2026
The Shelter
Reading
Light Jacket Series
2026
Mythos in Time, ii
Group Show, Cohorts Season One
Bathers Library
2026
Cotton Candy
Group Show, On-Line Annex
Black Box Gallery
2025
The Shelter (excerpt)
Literary Artist
Kearny Street Workshop APAture: (Un)Becoming
2025
林/Lean (Tree Interlude)
Solo Exhibition
The Crown: Royal Coffee Lab & Tasting Room
2025
Doll Hair
Exhibitor, Chinese Culture Center
Chinatown Ross Alley Zine Festival
2024
“Halcyon” from Unsaid (Doll Hair 2024)
Literary Artist
Kearny Street Workshop APAture: RETURN
2024
Haptic
Group Show, SHIM/Photo
Superfine! Art Fair, DC
Armstrong Gallery, CT
Aqua Art Miami, FL
United Film Lab Network, NY
2023 - 2024
Flowering Sea
Group Show, On-Line Annex
Black Box Gallery
2023
MONONOKE
Group Show, Blick Art Show
The Frida Cinema
2023
Creative-in-residence
2025 - 2026
Kala Art Institute
Artist-in-residence
2025 - 2026
Off Assignment
Scholarship award
2025 - 2026
School for Poetic Computation
Scholarship award
2025
Kearny Street Workshop Interdisciplinary Writers Lab
Scholarship award
2025
PLAYA Summer Lake
Fully-funded residency
2025
Winslow House Project
Fully-funded residency
2025
Prelinger Library
Artist-in-residence, $1,000 grant
2025
Left Margin LIT
Scholarship award
2025
Vermont Studio Center
Fully-funded residency
2025
“Halcyon”
Runner-up
Gulf Coast Barthelme Prize for Short Fiction
2025
Arrhythmia
Longlisted
Dzanc Books Prize for Fiction
2024
“Exhalations”
Finalist
Puerto del Sol Prose Contest
2024
“Two Poems in the Ruin Style [sic]”
Nominated for Best New Poets
2025
“Rosemary Folk”
Nominated for PEN Dau Prize
2023
Staff Writer
2022 - Present
The Rumpus
Poetry Reader
2024 - Present
Prison Journalism Project
Journalism Mentor
2024 - Present
Kearny Street Workshop
Festival Mentee
2025
Quiet Lightning
Graphics Volunteer
2024 - 2025
Chinese Culture Center
Gallery Volunteer
2024
The Frida Cinema
Blog Team Member
2022 - 2024
Red Hen Press
Production Intern
2023
Assignment01
Founder
2022 - 2023
W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.
K-12 Talk Education Blog Intern
2020
WHPK 88.5FM
Radio DJ
2019
Updated 26.04.02