Chrysanthemum is a poet, performance artist, and public historian. She serves as Co-Director of the Providence Poetry Slam, one of the oldest slam venues in the US. She is the recipient of a 2023 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation, a Kundiman Fellow, and a 2023 Justin Chin Memorial Scholarship from Lambda Literary. In 2024, she was named the inaugural Poet-in-Residence for LGBTQ Writers in Schools’ first LGBTQ+ Youth Poet Laureate Residency.

Chrysanthemum broke ground as a finalist of the 2016 Women of the World Poetry Slam. Her teams were champions of the Rustbelt Poetry Slam and the first-ever FEM Slam. Through a MacColl Johnson Fellowship awarded by the Rhode Island Foundation, she organized the Vanishing Point Writing Retreat to connect Asian poets in diaspora through collaborative, peer-led instruction. Chrysanthemum modeled this after Rachel McKibbens’ Pink Door Writing Retreat, of which she is an alumna. With long-time collaborator Justice Ameer, with whom she served as Artist-in-Residence at Williams College, she co-wrote and co-produced ANTHEM at the American Repertory Theater's OBERON, weaving poetry, music, song, and media arts into a lyrical performance exploring the lasting legacies of vanguards on the contours of race, sex, and gender. "Moments of rare joy and celebrations of survival are part of the premise," wrote WBUR about the debut show.