AWARDS

Loghaven
The Sue-Je Lee Gage Sunlit Residency for Human Rights and Social Justice
Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts Fellowship
Kundiman
VONA
Vermont Studio Center

TEACHING

Writing Across Homelands |  November 2022 
2-week creative writing workshop for adults on exploring a character’s network of homelands on behalf of Roots. Wounds. Words., a creative writing nonprofit that prioritizes marginalized identities

Writing About Where We Belong | September 2022
2-week creative writing workshop for CUNY Baruch College’s Writing Center that helped students reflect upon their definitions of home—past, present, and future

The Ancestral Path | September 2021
Creative writing workshop for Apogee Journal’s Writing Resistance workshop series focusing on the exploration of characters’ ancestries

Writing: An Advocacy Tool | July 2021
Elective available to all students at the Solstice Low-Residency MFA in Creative Writing Program at Pine Manor College that examined writing as a means of organizing communities and challenging oppressive structures

Family Matters | January 2021
Drop-in workshop for Kundiman, an Asian American literary nonprofit, focusing on establishing a character’s familial context in stories