🪷 ᜃᜇᜒ / 林嘉蓮
Carielyn Tunion-Lam (she/they) is a writer, videopoet, and cultural worker with a background in communications, film studies, and media arts.
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 yearning—conjuring hidden worlds, cracking open the ancestral bone to suck the marrow of identity, desire, and myth.
Carielyn’s work has been published by RUSSH Magazine, Sydney Opera House, Fairfield City Gallery, Mascara Literary Review, kindling & sage, Emerging Writers Festival, KAP Magazine and more. She is undertaking postgraduate study at WSU. Carielyn’s personal essay, ‘INGAT, SIS’, was awarded Editor’s Choice in RUSSH Magazine’s 2025 Literary Showcase. She is the recipient of the inaugural Antigone Kefala Memorial Prize.
Carielyn’s ancestral roots stretch from the archipelago of the ‘Philippines’ and Kowloon, Hong Kong. She lives, studies, works and treads respectfully on unceded Dharug country.
