AWARDS & HONORS
2021: Crab Creek Review Poetry Prize, Semi-finalist.
2018: Gold Wake Press's Poetry Book Contest, Semi-finalist.
2016: Gertrude Press's Poetry Chapbook Competition Finalist.
2013: The William T. Shadden Scholarship Graduate Award for Poetry.
2013: The Urban Ocean, 4th Annual Festival Poetry Contest Winner.
2012: The Urban Ocean, 3rd Annual Festival Poetry Contest Winner.
INTERVIEWS
Crab Creek Reviewinterviews me as "Poetry Month Feature" for April 2022 #NaPoMo
Moon Tide Press features me as "Poet of the Month" for December 2019
VoyageLA interviews me about Whiskey Jellyfish Poetry in Long Beach
Unlearning cultural and gender expectations.
How to balance writing authentically (creating for the self) vs. writing to please the invisible audience (creating pieces that people will actually want to read).
The emotionally taxing aspect of teaching at the community college level.
Income instability of being an adjunct professor and being a poet.
Nancy Lynée Woo interviews me for Out Loud: A Cultural Revolution's "Artist Spotlight"
What is one major challenge you face as an artist?
"Two things: inheriting cultural loss and writing about the self. Although it is liberating to seamlessly integrate my identity into my poetry, the weight and fog of who I am, at times, can be insufferable."
Q&A with Cat Leeches, author of "Ichor"
Q&A with Gail Aronson, author of "Silk"
Q&A with Jenny Xie, author of “Pigeon Forge”
Q&A with Erika T. Wurth, author of “Barry Four Voices”
Q&A with Sofia Samatar, author of “An Account of the Land of Witches”
The Offing Magazine Editor's Feature
What doors does The Offing open for you?