JuPong Lin, PhD

JuPong is an independent artist-scholar, cultural worker and narrative coach who dances with horseshoe crabs, makes ceremony with cranes and poetry and appetizers with Itadori (Japanese knotweed). Her work is dedicated to hospicing the dying colonized world, using the arts and poetics to create futures of joyful interspecies co-becoming. JuPong’s current poetry and socially-engaged art projects focus on shifting the paradigm of conquest and violent occupation by narrating new kinds of stories and worlds in pluriverses (many worlds) that honor beloved heartplaces. JuPong was a faculty member in the MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts at Goddard College for nearly 20 years before the College closed in 2024.

A daughter of Taiwanese farmers and brickmakers, JuPong thrives in the ecotones—the edge zones between ecosystems in transition where kincentric worlds emerge. She currently resides in Nipmuc homelands in Western Massachusetts, where she co-created The PeaceBirds Project, an arts-centered, movement-building initiative that holds space for collective grief as we witness atrocities committed near and afar, in Northeast USA, in West Asia and the Levant. Her first play, Phoenix in the HolyLand, links local activism for a ceasefire in Gaza with an international movement to decarcerate, demilitarize, and to end genocide.

As a founding member of the Land Lovers collective, we/she query the boundaries of migration and belonging, indigenous and invasive/alien, through imaginative interactions with plants and other-than-human beings. We harvest, cook with, eat and make paper and pleasure with our plant kin, noticing the fluidity of identity categories. Particularly through engaging with Itadori JuPong learns to embrace darkness and revel in migratory unbelonging. JuPong’s poems have been published in the Writing the Land series edited by Lis McLoughlin and other collections.