PUBLISHED WORKS
Poetry
- "Hek Fu," poem, Arc Poetry Magazine, Spring No. 103, Spring, 2024
- “Save the Date, (abecedarian),” poem, Grain Magazine, Volume 51.1, Fall, 2023
- “Lost,” poem, Vallum Contemporary Poetry, Issue 20:1 Spring, 2023
- “Breath-Span,” poem, Room Magazine, Issue 43.3 Fall, 2020
- “Exorcism,” poem, Untethered Magazine, Volume 2.1, July 2015
- “Metamorphosis: Ode to Strange Little Girls,” poem, Untethered Magazine Volume 2.1, July, 2015
- “Night Tent,” poem, The Liar, Volume 11, Winter 2013
- “Neon Marriage,” poem, The Liar, Volume 11, Winter 2013
- “Elegy for my Grandma,” poem, The Liar, Volume 10, Spring 2012
- “Vacant,” poem, The Liar, Volume 10, Spring 2012
- “Sea Nymph’s Romance,” poem, The Liar, Volume 8, Spring 2011
Fiction
- “Kiss the Ground,” updated version of short story, Emerge 20: The Writer’s Studio Anthology, 20th Anniversary Edition, October, 2020
- “Kiss the Ground,” short story, The Wayne Literary Review, annual 2018 edition
- “Kin,” short story, The Parenthetical Review, Issue 2, Autumn 2014
- “The Perfect Machine,” flash fiction, The Liar, Volume 8, Spring 2011
- “Heart-Break Breakfast in Bed,” flash fiction, The Liar, Volume 7, Winter 2011
Creative Nonfiction
- "Why Juk Makes Me Cry," personal essay, The Humber Literary Review, Volume 11, Issue 2, Fall + Winter 2023/24
- “Breaking up with Owen,” personal essay, Transition Magazine, Summer, 2016
- “Game of Thrones, A Song of Authenticity and Franchises,” personal essay, Trueblue, July 8th, 2014
- “Ugly Stepsister Syndrome,” personal essay, Trueblue Magazine online publication, June 3rd, 2014
- “OCD Intrusion,” memoir published anonymously, The Liar, Volume 9, Winter 2012
BOOKS IN PROGRESS
A Drop in the Ocean: Resurfacing from OCD, A Novel
A young adult novel based on Léa's lived experience about coming of age while in residential treatment for severe obsessive compulsive and comorbid disorders. Written with prose SFU The Writer’s Studio mentor Claudia Casper describes as clean, poetic and with an urgent twist of ironic humour.
Publication forthcoming in Spring, 2025 by Arsenal Pulp Press
Storm Dragons, A Novel
A historical speculative fiction novel about two Chinese Canadian sisters growing up in Vancouver’s Chinatown during the 1960s. Storm Dragons draws upon Chinese folklore and lived experience in asylums like British Columbia’s Riverview while exploring the nuances of complex family ties and differing cultural conceptions of neurodivergence.
EVENTS
- Featured Reader and Panelist at the launch of Yilin Wang's book, The Lantern and the Night Moths,
Vancouver Public Library's Uplift Asian 2024 Series, April 3, 2024 - Featured Reader at Real Vancouver Writers' Series Winter 2023, November 23, 2023
- Featured Reader at Small Gods Storyteller Series vol. 7, November 5, 2023
- Featured Reader at The Writer's Studio Reading Series October Session, October 16, 2023
- Featured Reader at Room Magazine’s 43.3 Issue Zoom Launch, October 24, 2020
- Featured Performer at Chagall Exhibit, October 20, 2016
- Featured Performer at New Work from the Road Exhibit, January 28, 2015
- Featured Performer at Lashon Hara Exhibit, June 19, 2014
- Featured Performer at Rain Exhibit, September 27, 2012
- Featured Reader at The Liar’s Volume 9 Fall 2012 Issue Launch Party, December 10, 2012