# Calista Ogburn

Welcome back to Asians in the Spotlight! We're starting off the new year with a new series called RepresentASIAN in Literature, where we'll be interviewing Asian authors and highlighting moments in their career. Literature, from poems to novels, is a powerful part of sharing stories and new ideas. …

In this week's episode, Calista Ogburn (the first poet and author on my show) opens up about what it's like being an Asian-American author. She tells us her many successes as well as her challenges that got her to where is she today. Her books, "A Splash of Yellow" & "This Is It" both stem from Asi…

For our fifth episode, the Stories Empowered team interviewed Calista Ogburn, a Korean and Vietnamese American college student who writes poetry about gender identity, global perspectives, body image, and more. Throughout this episode, Ogburn talked about her use of both poetry and visual art to ex…

Do you call it lockdown, isolation or quarantine? I created Yellow Bee Pod to talk about the highs and lows of our experiences as East/Southeast Asians and this episode is a perfect example. I'm talking about the racism we have seen affecting our communities, how you can help stop hate crimes, what…