🪷 ᜃᜇᜒ / 林嘉蓮
Carielyn Tunion-Lam (she/they) is a writer, videopoet, artist and cultural worker with a background in communications, screen and media arts. Carielyn works across the arts, cultural and community sectors.
Carielyn’s writing and videopoetry practice is central to her self-expression—places where she can create, recreate, destroy and regenerate; where she can write and rewrite herself and the stories for which she is a conduit. Their work explores themes of radical nostalgia, ritual, and folklore through critical diasporic perspectives. Their work explores notions of conjuring hidden worlds, cracking open the ancestral bone to suck the marrow of identity, desire, and myth.
Carielyn’s work has been supported by RUSSH Magazine, Sydney Opera House, CuriousWorks, Fairfield City Gallery, Mascara Literary Review, kindling & sage, Emerging Writers Festival, SBS Filipino, Creature Magazine and KAP Magazine. She is currently doing postgraduate study in literature at WSU. Carielyn was awarded Editor’s Choice in the 2025 RUSSH Literary Showcase for her piece ‘INGAT, SIS’.
Carielyn’s ancestral roots are in the archipelago of the so-called Philippines and Kowloon, Hong Kong. She currently lives, studies, works and treads respectfully on unceded Burramattagal on Dharug country.
