Jireh Deng - The Rumpus.net

Posts by: Jireh Deng

Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Jireh Deng

December 9th, 2021

The ancient sapien instinct: love is an approximation to danger.

Jireh (she/they) is a queer Asian American poet and journalist born and raised in the San Gabriel Valley. Their work appears in the Asian American Writers’ Workshop, the podcast VS, LA Taco, the Human Rights Campaign, TaiwaneseAmerican.org, and more. They are a student at CSU Long Beach and the student advisory board representative for the Asian American Journalist Association’s Los Angeles Chapter. In summer 2021 they interned at the LA Times and are currently interning at NPR. When they aren’t writing, you can probably find them cooking noodles or fried rice for loved ones.