Margaret Rhee

Margaret Rhee is a feminist poet, activist, and scholar. Her research focuses on feminist, queer, and ethnic studies with a special interest on digital participatory action research and pedagogy. Her scholarship has been published at Amerasia Journal, Information Society, and Sexuality Research and Social Policy. As a digital activist and new media artist she is co-lead and conceptualist of From the Center a feminist HIV/AIDS digital storytelling education project implemented in the San Francisco Jail.^[1][2] She currently serves on the board of directors for social justice organizations, DataCenter ^[3] and the Queer Women of Color Media Arts Project.^[4]

As a feminist experimental poet, her chapbook Yellow was published by Tinfish Press/University of Hawaii.^[5][6][7] She currently serves as managing editor of Mixed Blood, a literary journal on race and experimental poetry published out of the University of California, Berkeley.^[8] She co-edited the collections Here is a Pen: An Anthology of West Coast Kundiman Poets (Achiote Press) ^[9] and online anthology Glitter Tongue: queer and trans love poems.^[10] Her poetry has been published at the Berkeley Poetry Review, Lantern Review: A Journal of Asian American Poetry, and Mission At Tenth.

She is a doctoral candidate at the University of California Berkeley in Ethnic Studies with a designated emphasis in New Media Studies.^[11] She received her B.A. in English/Creative Writing from the University of Southern California. From 2004 - 2006, she worked as an editor for publications YOLK Magazine, Chopblock.com, and Back Stage.^[12]

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