In celebration of the end of AAPI Heritage Month, The Daily highlights the award-winning works of Asian American/Pacific Islander students in the Creative Writing Program's annual competition. Works explored ideas ranging from speculative climate disasters to dictionary poems.
A strange feeling was welling up inside her chest. It was anxiety and fear. It was relief, it was love, it was hope. Most of all, it was the feeling that for once, a year after moving to New York, she wasn’t alone.