AIMEE WAI
Photograph by Jonathan Grado
Aimee Wai is an Austin-based writer who once forgot she liked to write and then remembered. She grew up in the Rocky Mountains and studied Geological Engineering at the Colorado School of Mines. She works in consulting by day, and at night likes to watercolor, read Frank O'Hara, and eat Chinese broccoli. She is busy at work on her first collection of poetry.
I want to make time for everything and do nothing with it. I want to sweat in the shower and scream at the bottom of a pool. I’m hungry and I want it all. I’m hungrier than a bird that swallowed the big blue sky.
We are complex creatures who have needs outside of food and water and security, like expression, purpose, and resonance. I want to be full in more ways than one. I talk a lot about hunger because I’m looking in the mirror at a thin figure.
June 30, 2024