Hybrid: “Portrait of Trauma as Lite-Brite (in which “I” is any child), ages 0+” by Jade Yeung

Portrait of Trauma as Lite-Brite (in which "I" is any child), ages 0+

 

I wasn’t sure whether to begin those happysad stories with “I” or “She” or “He” or “We” or “One time” or “Don’t tell nobody” or…

–Kiese Laymon, Heavy

 

About Jade Yeung

Jade Yeung is a Toishanese American writer from Brooklyn, NY. She has received support from Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Community of Writers, and Fine Arts Work Center. Jade’s chapbook, ANTI, will be featured in Black Warrior Review Issue 48.2. She has appeared in Kissing DynamiteLammergeier, and Indolent Books’s A River Sings series. Currently Jade is pursuing an MFA at Rutgers University-Newark where she’s a Trustee Fellow. She reads for The Yale Review and Pigeon Pages. https://jadeyeung.com/

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