Awards & Highlights

2025 Sundress Academy for the Arts Resident
2022 Los Angeles Press Club National Arts and Entertainment Journalism Award Winner
2022 Los Angeles Press Club Southern California Journalism Award 2nd Place
2022 Asian American Journalism Association Journalism Excellence Award Final Runner Up
2021-2022 Catapult Memoir Generator with Megan Stielstra
2021 Black Warrior Review Nonfiction Contest Winner
2021 Tin House Summer Workshop with E. J. Koh
2021 Idyllwild Arts Writers Week Fellowship with Amanda Fortini
2021 City Lit Workshops with Rowan Hisayo Buchanan
2021 Periplus Fellowship Finalist
​2021 Pushcart Prize Nominee

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Interviews

Exposition Review Transposition Podcast (2021)
Milk Candy Review (2021)
Asians Doing Everything (2016)

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​Selected Mentions

​NPR - InStyle - Longreads - Jen Hewett's newsletter - Alta - Women Who Submit - Slate France - Asian American Writers' Workshop - The Ringer - Curator: The Museum Journal - Hyperallergic

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Readings & Events

City Lit Between the Lines Anthology Launch, 2021
This Long Thread Book Launch, Two Rivers Books, 2021
City Lit presents Late Lines, 2021
Accolades Anthology Launch, San Antonio, Texas, 2020
Japan-America Student Conference, 2019
Exposition Review Vol. IV Launch, Skylight Books, 2019
Associated Collegiate Press Convention, 2018
Japan-America Student Conference, 2017
Little Tokyo Book Festival, 2016
Mixed Remixed Festival, 2016

Photo by Evan Kodani