Awards & Experience

(Abridged)

  • Finalist for Emerging Poet Prize, Palette Poetry

  • Recipient of C.V. Starr Research Fund, Asian/Pacific/American Institute at New York University

  • Contemporary Literature Award (Summa Cum Laude), English Department of New York University

  • Honorable Mention for Judith Lobel Arkin Poetry Prize, Academy of American Poets

  • Best of 2017 Nomination, Nat. Brut

  • Guest Reader, LIT Magazine

  • Recipient of Tory Dent Research Scholarship,
    Creative Writing Department of New York University

  • MFA Candidate & Goldwater Fellow, New York University

  • Reader, underblong

  • Editor-in-Chief, West 10th | May 2019

  • Writing Assistant, University Learning Center | May 2019

  • Intern, Poets & Writers | Aug 2018

  • Reader , The Blueshift Journal | July 2018

  • Intern, New York State Council on the Arts | Aug 2017

  • Instructor & Intern, Sydney Story Factory | May 2017

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Interests & Expertise: Asian American Literature, Feminist Theory, Memory & Postcolonial Studies, Human Rights & War Literature, Comparative Mythology, (Racial) Literacy, Mental Health, Translation