Athena Chu is a senior at Princeton University studying English Literature. She was a YoungArts double finalist in poetry and film. Her work has been published in the Nassau Literary Review.

She lived in Bolivia for a year making a film, and worked at Ravens Used Books in Harvard Square before it moved out towards Western Massachusetts. Her dreams involve studying Classical Chinese and Ancient Greek, returning to Spanish, and turning to other languages. She inhabits some present tense as an artist. She reads philosophy in order to live, draws in order to think, paints in order to see time, and writes not to be in order, etc.

Her thesis is a collection of poems named after Chinese characters which are also butterflies flying through a vast field of the English language in five acts, harmonizing the stages of a butterfly's life and the five element theory from the Book of Changes with the common structure of an Elizabethan drama.

contact: athenasophiachu@gmail.com

instagram: athenaschu

postscript:

As a child I loved to write letters. If you write me a letter without artificial intelligence, I’ll write to you.

Any and all errors are my own. I take full responsibility.