River 慧瑩 Dandelion

River 慧瑩 Dandelion (fka Huiying Dandelion Chan) is an award-winning poet, healing practitioner, and educator. River writes to connect with the unseen and unspoken, so we can feel and heal. His work lives at the intersections of personal and societal transformation and is rooted in love. He has been awarded fellowships from Kundiman, Asian American Writers’ Workshop, DreamYard, Kairos, and Mellon Mays Foundation. His work has been nominated for Best of the Net (2022) and is published in Best New Poets (2021), The Offing, The Margins, Seventh Wave Magazine, Asian American Journal of Psychology, and elsewhere. River is working on his first full-length poetry collection that explores matriarchal legacies, belonging & home in diaspora, and self-remembrance. He recently won the AWP Kurt Brown Prize for the title poem. You can connect with him at @rememberingourlight on IG.