AWARDS
Loghaven, 2025
The Sue-Je Lee Gage Sunlit Residency for Human Rights and Social Justice, 2025
Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, 2024
Kundiman, 2022 and 2023
VONA, 2015
Vermont Studio Center, 2010
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