Lin An Phoa is a poet, performer and moderator. She studied Linguistics and Multilingualism and writes with a critical, hopeful pen. In her work she investigates how poetry and the stage can be hospitable places, with room for underexposed perspectives. Her work explores themes around community, power relations, womanhood, her Chinese-Indonesian roots, self-care culture and the expectations of the systems in which we live. Lin An works at spoken word platform Poetry Circle and is a maker at Wintertuin.