paul aster stone-tsao (he/they/we) is a taiwanese-american trans*masculine poet, dancer, and multidisciplinary artist currently based in brooklyn. his work on silence, terror, memory inheres in movement, sound, and is dedicated to exploring and reckoning with what it is to survive the aftermath of catastrophe // to retrieve what still churns in the current of childhoods lost to the torrent of language not yet able to bear its own recognition. he has performed in venues including the pfizer building in bk as well as the walt disney concert hall in la. they are a 2019 Kundiman poetry fellow.