I Dream of a White House

Alixen Pham is a Best New Poets 2022 finalist and a Best of the Net–nominated poet, writer, and artist published in Tahoma Literary Review, Cultural Daily, Apogee Journal, Rust & Moth, The Slowdown, and elsewhere. She facilitates poetry workshops with The Poetry Salon, co-organizes the city of Long Beach’s Festival of Asian American & Pacific Islander Books, and is a coeditor of the 2024 Periplus Collective anthology. Pham is a 2022 City of West Hollywood Artist Grantee, a 2023 Periplus Fellow, a 2022 alumna of the Brooklyn Poets Mentorship Program, and a recipient of a 2016 PEN Center/City of West Hollywood Fiction & Nonfiction Scholarship. She is currently working on her first collection of hybrid artwork and visual poems.