Yan Sham-Shackleton
Poetry
Yan is working on her poetry collection: My Lover and I Bicker about Eggs.
Commentary
Until the passing of the National Security Law, Yan was a columnist for the Nobel Peace Prize nominated Hong Kong Free Press.
Fiction
Yan’s fiction has appeared in literary magazines and anthologies internationally.
Updates
Future Publications
Yan will feature in the collection Southern California Poets by Moontide Press (2026).
Her poem “Reclamation Song” will appear in Insurgent Imagination (2026).
Headline Reading with Jessie Tovar, @ Cafe Con Libros Press. Sept 6th 2025
Online Readings for Yellow 2025
Fundraiser for California Poets in Schools. June 22nd 2025
Yummi Hussi is quoted in an academic paper
A zine that Yan co-edited with Katrina Jensen in the 90s was recently quoted in “Life Lessons: Experiences of Gender Studies in Zines in the 1990s and 2000s” published in Comparative American Studies An International Journal (February 2024)
Chicago Quarterly Review
“Blossom” a short story about a girl facing emigration to America appeared in the Chicago Quarterly Review.
Yan Sham-Shackleton Online 