Shalenah is a queer writer, visual artist, and self-described earth angel currently based in Taipei, Taiwan. As a lifelong word conjurer, she uses the medium of writing to breathe out intimate reflections upon her inner and outer world and the mystical threads of the human journey. She is the founder of the Sapphic Writing Club in Taipei and a first place winning literary awards recipient.
Above all, she is a passionate woman.
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Thank you for being...
My writings are memoir-esque, intimate, and lyrical, dancing within the fragrance of memory and the electric sensuality of the present. I am inspired by my ever-evolving journey as a Black, sapphic woman devoted to dreaming, doing, and Loving with reckless abandon.
This philosophy infuses into the pages of my work where I invite myself and readers to use our hearts as a compass.
Woven throughout my work are multi-dimensional contemplations on my life painted through my experiences of travel and life abroad. I define these entities as my wisest teachers and commune with them as a sacred portal.
In these layers, I journey, taking readers by the hand to dream, laugh, evolve, sink, and transcend together. Love resides here, after all.
With love,
Shalenah
Selected Essays
Stay for a spell in Shalenah's world with reflections that span from Rio de Janeiro to Tokyo, from ancient indigenous ceremonies to tender queer firsts. Her piece "La Vie en Rouge" earned first place in the undergraduate non-fiction category in Florida International University's Literary Awards Competition in Miami, Florida. All photographs on this site were taken by the writer.
