Ivan Zhao

Ivan Zhao is a poet, designer, and web artist based in San Francisco interested in nonlinear narratives, forms, and mechanics that reckon with digital, diasporic, and queer identity. His art interrogates computational and individual agency, and his research revolves around tools, systems, and play. Ivan’s deeply interested in the language of characters and silences. His work has been published in Kernel, The New River, thehtml.review, Prism, Providence Public Library, and elsewhere, and has received support from organizations such as Brooklyn Poetry, Community of Writers, and Kundiman. When he’s not making weird things on the internet, he’s making bread and soup in the kitchen.