Teline Tran

designed by Castle Córdoba

A digital photograph of Teline, wearing a black tank top, pair of black Brooks running shoes, and blue Baltic Style mini skirt designed by Velma Mare. Their nails are long, acrylic and shiny, with silver beads glued to their index and ring fingers. The photo is taken with flash. It is nighttime. They hold a deer antler in their left hand above their head and cover their eyes as if to block the sun with the left hand. Their lips are pursed playfully. They are sitting with their knees out and feet folded under their bottom on a hardwood floor in front of a radiator and two windows. Their friend's hand, holding what seems to be an animal skull, is slightly cropped on left frame, alongside the friend's left foot wearing a beige sock. It is their birthday. They are a Scorpio.

Teline at their birthday party

Teline Trần is a writer from Orange, California or Gabrieleño/Tongva land. They write about home and interstitial faith via several mediums such as fiction, poetry, film, and ultimately the browser. Teline works as the Membership and Community Engagement Coordinator at Wendy’s Subway, a reading room, writing space, and independent publisher in Bushwick, Brooklyn, where they were a Fellow in 2020. They also work as the Development Coordinator at Mekong NYC, a Southeast Asian grassroots organization in the Bronx. Teline's first poetry chapbook is Ad-Học (2023). 

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